I am shooting a little bit high with my Official Police at 15 yards.

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Doug.38PR

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I am shooting a little high with my OP at the range the other day. It isn't the sights. I bring the target up to about 7 yards and as close as 2 yards to me and it hits dead on and I can make a group about the size of a quarter right where it is in the sites. I've fired at outdoor ranges at 50 to 75 yards aiming at as point in the dirtmound background (A piece of trash, a clog of dirt or something about the size of my head) and I can nail it within six shots by using the sites. However the other night at the indoor range I get it down to 15 yards at the end of the range and I am aiming for the head of the sillouette and I hit the upper portion of the paper and the upper corners....AND I EVEN HIT THE RIGHT CLIP OFF THE RACK almost knocking the paper down leaving it hanging on one clip on it's left side. The clip was ruined with a bullet having torn right through it.
I aim for the center chest and hit the upper chest. What could I be doing wrong?
 
sights are always set to give the barrel some vertical lift, i.e. the barrel actually points up. Reason, as soon as a bullet leaves the barrel it is falling, so to get any range out of it you actually loft it, kind of like a softball pitch. I would guess that you are trying to sight in too close. sight in your zero at 25 and try again with the 7 & 15 (without re-adjusting the sights). You should be slightly low at 7, a little less low at 15.
 
no my sights are fixed. This gun doesn't have adjustable sights. see:
OfficialPolice44hand.jpg
 
I remember once looking at a shooting suggestions booklet that came with the old Colts...it said to line the sight with the 6 oclock position on the bullseye..is that where you are aiming or dead center...?
 
Ah yes, a point shooter Colt, I .e. gun with fixed sights... set the target on top of the front sight with it being level between the blades of the rear... then:
In the old days we would "load for the gun" or file the front sight, etc.

With store bought ammo, try a few different brands, esp the standard loads at 25 yards and see if any of them are right on.. if so buy a lot!! If not, do you hand load? It could be that the ammo you are selecting could be just too hot (HV) for the gun. Try standard loads or even starting loads and see what happens.
 
K N AR
I was shooting standard .38 LRN.

Aspen
I was aiming at dead center. I was lining up the dead center (it was a silouette target not a bullseye) of the chest. The chest was on top of my front sight when I pulled the trigger. What you said would make sense. Why would that be though? how could that be though? Are all handguns like that?

Sir William,
I was shooting mostly standard .38 LRN 158gr (a whole box of 50) with some occasional .38+P LWCHP 158gr and some .38+P Corbon 110 gr.m (probably about 6-12 rounds of each of the +P ones)
 
Three ideas. UNLOAD the revolver. Slowly pull the trigger and watch for the bolt to pop up and the cylinder to fully lock. Apply lateral force while in full lock up to see if there is any play. Check this on all six chambers. Second, look at the forcing cone and shine a light into the bore. The revolver may only need cleaning/deleading. Third idea is to have another shooter see where the revolver hits for them. Have you tried a sandbag/rest position?
 
The gun may simply not shoot to point of aim for you. I have dozens of revolvers with fixed sights and the vast majority don't hit exactly where I am aiming. If you are high you need a taller front sight. Lighter and or faster bullets tend to shoot a little lower, too.

Have someone else shoot it and see if he gets the same results.
 
Okay, I tried it again today at 15 yds with a full load of 6 shooting at an FBI circle. Got 2 out of 6 in the center RIGHT WHERE I WAS AIMING and 2 more just above those (one of them being just above the circle) and that was only because the paper was rocking back and forth a little from my having moved it back on the electric rail.

I was shooting 130gr FMJ. The gun worked perfectly (one of the best 6 rounds I've ever done at that range). I guess I was doing something wrong the other day. I dunno.
 
Okay, today I was shooting it again at 15 yard and it was still going to the upper right side a little. I'm still not totally sure it was me. I put it to the test and used a 2 inch Model 10 and a 6 inch M-28 and they shot pretty much where I was aiming.
 
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