92G Compact sight options

[DocSabo40]

I was at my LGS today and spotted a 92G Compact for a very good price. As prudence demands, I bought it and headed to the range. It's a real beauty, but the sights are a little off. I did the math on it, and it appears to be sighted in to be dead on at roughly 86 yards with a 15mph crosswind from the right. To verify that I wasn't going blind, I ran a group with my 229, which went right to POA.

So. What are my options for fixing this beast? As best I can tell, it has the .270" rear sight on it right now, and Wilson only makes taller ones. Since there is no way to adjust the front sight, should I just nickname this gun "Kentucky" and kind of guess where to hold it?

I was shooting at 25 yards, the pistol is pointing to where I was aiming.

[Clobbersaurus]

What kind of sight picture were you taking? Driving the dot or using the top of the sights?

[DocSabo40]

Top of the front sight, AKA sight picture #2.

[GJM]

In my experience, they usually shoot low (drive the Dir), and require a taller rear. I would drift that rear a bit left, try some 115/124, shoot again, and report back.

[Suvorov]

I was at my LGS today and spotted a 92G Compact for a very good price. As prudence demands, I bought it and headed to the range. It's a real beauty, but the sights are a little off. I did the math on it, and it appears to be sighted in to be dead on at roughly 86 yards with a 15mph crosswind from the right. To verify that I wasn't going blind, I ran a group with my 229, which went right to POA.

So. What are my options for fixing this beast? As best I can tell, it has the .270" rear sight on it right now, and Wilson only makes taller ones. Since there is no way to adjust the front sight, should I just nickname this gun "Kentucky" and kind of guess where to hold it?

I was shooting at 25 yards, the pistol is pointing to where I was aiming.

How experienced are you with the Beretta platform? Have you had a pizza slinger shoot the gun? Just asking because I know that for myself I will often see POI shifts when I bounce between platforms (this is where the one gun only gods kill a kitten) that I attribute to grip and how I choke the trigger. While they are both DA platforms the grip and trigger length of pull are quite different between the pistols an that *could* be all that is throwing you off.

[Clobbersaurus]

Hmm, so many variables with POA/POI. I think GJM has the best advice so far.

I would also be using a smaller aiming point, like a B8 target for example, if I was really trying to dial in my gun at 25.

[DocSabo40]

I don't have much experience with pizza guns aside from my time in the Marines/Army, and those all hit good enough for me to never miss on the qual's, but that's not saying much. I do experience minor POI issues when switching guns, like I will hit 1" to the left with my VP9 for the first few groups if I haven't shot it for a while. But nothing this drastic.

Per the advice, I'm headed back out today with some B8s.

[DocSabo40]

Well the comp'd AR's doing mag dumps on either side of me at the indoor range made group shooting a bit of a challenge, but my results were about the same as before. I tried 115gr factory, 147 gr HSTs, and my standard 124gr reloads. All hit about the same spot. I brought along my G17 as a control. The pizza gun is significantly harder for me to get good hits with, but every group was about the same size in the same place. I fired 10, 10 shot groups trying to get a decent one to post to save me the embarrassment, but I finally gave up.

My sight pusher would not work with the strange levers on this pistol, so I haven't drifted the rear sight yet. I should be able to fix the windage once I get a vice, the elevation will be an issue though. Any ideas? File down a Wilson rear?

[Paul Sharp]

Did you ask anyone else to shoot the pistol just to see if they experience the same issue? Les and I shot one of my pizza guns high and right. His friend Chris shot it and was hitting dead on. We still have no idea what that was about...

[DocSabo40]

I did not. I know exactly one other person in my area who knows the basics, and he was out of town.