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I have a Dan Wesson 357 MAG revolver. I'm adjusting the rear sight.
Using the little hex-key, I have been able to adjust the rear sight to where it shoots dead-on (POA=POI) at 25 yards.
However, the rear blade with the notch now feels a little loose on the end of the 'rail' of the sight (the part that's screwed into the top of the frame).
The windage adjustment (forgive me if I'm not using the correct terminology) is a hex screw on the right hand side of the gun.
However, if I look on the left-hand side of the sight, it looks like the hex screw is threaded inside a second screw, which will take a small flathead screwdriver.
Should I be holding the external thread/screw while turning the hex on the other side? Will that not move my sight out of alignment again? Do I need some special tool for this?
The left hand side looks something like this:
-(o)-
With the - being a notch that runs through the top of the screw, () is the outline of the external/second screw and o is the end of the hex screw.
Edit: per the Dan Wesson page, the screws are the Windage screw (hex on the right) and the windage retainer screw (on the left).
I know this should be fairly easy to do, but at the same time I don't want to bugger up my gun or completely jack up my sight alignment, so I get to spend another afternoon (and 75 rounds) sighting it in all over again.
Sorry for the long thread. Any feedback is welcome at this point, even if you tell me to dump the sight and buy a new one (if so: which one?)
Thanks
I have a Dan Wesson 357 MAG revolver. I'm adjusting the rear sight.
Using the little hex-key, I have been able to adjust the rear sight to where it shoots dead-on (POA=POI) at 25 yards.
However, the rear blade with the notch now feels a little loose on the end of the 'rail' of the sight (the part that's screwed into the top of the frame).
The windage adjustment (forgive me if I'm not using the correct terminology) is a hex screw on the right hand side of the gun.
However, if I look on the left-hand side of the sight, it looks like the hex screw is threaded inside a second screw, which will take a small flathead screwdriver.
Should I be holding the external thread/screw while turning the hex on the other side? Will that not move my sight out of alignment again? Do I need some special tool for this?
The left hand side looks something like this:
-(o)-
With the - being a notch that runs through the top of the screw, () is the outline of the external/second screw and o is the end of the hex screw.
Edit: per the Dan Wesson page, the screws are the Windage screw (hex on the right) and the windage retainer screw (on the left).
I know this should be fairly easy to do, but at the same time I don't want to bugger up my gun or completely jack up my sight alignment, so I get to spend another afternoon (and 75 rounds) sighting it in all over again.
Sorry for the long thread. Any feedback is welcome at this point, even if you tell me to dump the sight and buy a new one (if so: which one?)
Thanks