The light bulb just went on about something that happened recently that reminded me of this thread .
I'm looking to buy my buddy's Sig super target (45acp) . I had shot it before several times and liked it but never shot it to actually evaluate it , pretty much a mag here and there just to check it out . Couple weeks ago he offers to sell it so we go out to shoot it so I can give it a good testing .
So there I am not a great pistol shooter but I can hit what I'm aiming at and if I really try can shoots some ok groups from time to time . However I can't shoot a group with this $12/$1500 gun if My life depends on it , I mean half the time I can't even hit a 12x18" steel plate at 50 feet .
I pull my cheep old XD45 compact out and hit the plate every time
Hmm I shoot my $400 combat tupperware better then a hand fitted target pistol ?
. I stop shooting and in my head I'm thinking no way I buy that gun .
Next time we go shooting he brings the sig and I ask to try it again . There I am again can't hit crap so we adjust the sights this time . Hey what do you know I can hit stuff but a mag or two later can't hit anything again . Adjust the sight again , bing bang badda-boom on target again yea ! Sure enough couple mags later can't hit anything again . Turns out the rear sight blade is drifting on recoil . When adjusting I noted how light the "clicks" were but figured high end gun hand fitted = high end clicks lol . We never could get the sight to stop moving on recoil so he sent it back to Sig and they had to replace the whole rear sight . My guess is If I had only checked the rear sight the first time out we wouldn't have wasted so much ammo that trip or the next trying to figure out why a target pistol can't hit the side of a mountain even if you tried haha .
In hind sight of course I should have checked the sights that first time out no gun shoots that bad
We really should always check the obvious first haha .