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My wife recently acquired a new Heritage Arms 22 revolver. It's a fairly inexpensive but fun shooter. Hers is a 4.5" model with bird's head grip. I think the grip was the part that put her over the top on this 22 revolver.
The pistol needed some tweaking to the sights as you might have expected. I tweaked the front sight to correct the tendency to shoot to the left of point of aim. And the front sight needed a little filing to raise the barrel a bit.
Not that it shoots straight, as far as my eyes can make it, I think it could use a little opening up of the rear sight channel. I filed the right side of the channel a bit to correct the POI issue but it could be a bit wider to get a better sight picture.
Anybody ever done this to a fixed sight style single action pistol and how did you accomplish it?
I've ordered some cold blue from Van's to repair the bluing where I filed the sights so far. That should be durable enough because this revolver will not get heavy use or abuse.
The pistol needed some tweaking to the sights as you might have expected. I tweaked the front sight to correct the tendency to shoot to the left of point of aim. And the front sight needed a little filing to raise the barrel a bit.
Not that it shoots straight, as far as my eyes can make it, I think it could use a little opening up of the rear sight channel. I filed the right side of the channel a bit to correct the POI issue but it could be a bit wider to get a better sight picture.
Anybody ever done this to a fixed sight style single action pistol and how did you accomplish it?
I've ordered some cold blue from Van's to repair the bluing where I filed the sights so far. That should be durable enough because this revolver will not get heavy use or abuse.