At some point as a shooter you have to learn your own baseline and be honest with yourself.
I agree with this. I've also never shot off bags to sight in or verify the accuracy of any pistol I have ever owned, including all the target guns I've owned in my days of bullseye competition.
If I shoot a really good group with any gun, then I know that gun has x amount of potential or better for me on my best day. If anything starts to go downhill from there then I assume its me, not the gun.
I was able to get out to the range yesterday for the first time in 8 months. I do have a small range in my field, but I don't practice down there because of neighbors and only use it for sighting in and testing loads and function, so yesterday was the first day I got to wring out this gun and shoot a bunch of paper targets. This was my first fifteen shots. So now I know that this gun has this potential or even mayber better. I do dry fire with this gun alot, and when I practice live fire, I try to practice like I am dry firing with live ammo.
Shot at ten yards,13 rounds slow fire, off hand standing, early morning with my Kahr P45 using reloaded hardball loads tested at 835 fps, Berys fmj. I did shoot five on paper earlier in the week after I installed the new Dawson Precision FO front sight, and eyeballed the front and rear sight alignment.
The Kahr has a Lothar walther match barrel that was so tight I had to have it throated and freebored so that I could use longer OAL rounds. It was finicky with ammo before that, but yesterday, it ate everything without a hitch.
Talking about combat hold, this group was shot using a combat hold over the center of the bull. I chose a thinner front sight and it has a fine bright red fiber optic recessed into the blade so its more clear that the hi viz sights.
I measured the old sight from the top of the slide to the top of the blade and ordered the same size from Dawson Precision. .180 tall by .100 width using the OEM Kahr white bar sight. So you just dot the red FO over the white blade for a quick sght picture.
I would highly recommend Dawson Precision as the way to go for adjusting your POI!