Okay, so I have googled this numerous times and I get a lot speculation and opinions (followed by the usual arguing), but not exactly what I was looking for.
I took a beginner pistol class with my HK 45t last year. We were taught the usual 6 o'clock sight method. What I found though was that my HK required holding the front sight directly over, or covering my intended target to hit it at 7 yards. This is with 230 grain FMJ ammunition. It does have the Mepro factory sights, but they don't seem overly tall like some suppressor sights. At that time, I sortof chalked it up to poor marksman skills, (and so did the instructor) but I researched it and found someone saying that, because HK is not so much made for the civilian market, the handguns are sighted at the factory with a sight picture that requires the front sight to cover your target. As in, covering the target with the front sight dot would be more commonly used in military marksmanship...? I apologize if I seem awkward with the terminology. I ask another instructor about it and he said, "Putting the target on top of the front sight post is just the beginner sight picture method."
Now, I have a 1911 and it shoots very well with the target sitting just atop the FSP and my HK 45 still requires the FSP to cover the target with the same ammo. Any actual logic to that or just... well different?
I took a beginner pistol class with my HK 45t last year. We were taught the usual 6 o'clock sight method. What I found though was that my HK required holding the front sight directly over, or covering my intended target to hit it at 7 yards. This is with 230 grain FMJ ammunition. It does have the Mepro factory sights, but they don't seem overly tall like some suppressor sights. At that time, I sortof chalked it up to poor marksman skills, (and so did the instructor) but I researched it and found someone saying that, because HK is not so much made for the civilian market, the handguns are sighted at the factory with a sight picture that requires the front sight to cover your target. As in, covering the target with the front sight dot would be more commonly used in military marksmanship...? I apologize if I seem awkward with the terminology. I ask another instructor about it and he said, "Putting the target on top of the front sight post is just the beginner sight picture method."
Now, I have a 1911 and it shoots very well with the target sitting just atop the FSP and my HK 45 still requires the FSP to cover the target with the same ammo. Any actual logic to that or just... well different?
