Persevere with it, Mr Geezer.
With a little more time for familiarisation, the required hold will let itself be known to you.
As for the fibre optics, I find them much better outdoor and quite like them.
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I will, Tone, but I fear, after 35 years of shooting pistols with normal sights, that it will take a long time to get used to fibre-optics. A problem I never had with white dots, white lines round the rear notch, or little tritium vials.
And, yes, I need to work out how and where to index my grip for a natural point. On real 1911s, the combination of the grip safety/beaver tail and riding the manual safety with the thumb sorted it out. The HW has neither to work with.
I dislike the Christmas tree sights, they are inexact and serve no function other than to sell the pistol to weak-minded punters. I believe they fit into the 'tacti-cool' section of the market, and at such would be useful if you were attacked by a empty coke-can at what American gunslingers describe as 'card-table' distances. But if the thing pointed naturally they would be redundant in this capacity anyway.
Get some normal squared off metal sights and I am sure the group sizes will shrink 30% with no other changes.
Agreed. And I probably need to test a bunch of pellets, not just the RWS Superfields I had on hand. Looking at the Pyramydair blog, "BB" shot his (conventionally sighted) HW45 about as well as mine with some, a little worse with others, and a lot better with match wadcutters. But his was .177" and mine is .22".
Any ideas on good 5.5mm wadcutters?
This is an interesting little challenge.
And, no, I will not put a scope or red dot on it, because optics on pistols are perverted.
I love the 45's fibre optics and all. I have the silverstar in .177 and the standard black in .22. They do take a little getting used to but as previously said by Nick and Tony etc they are fantastic pistols. Build quality, performance etc all second to non. A great result on the price too.
As for pellets, my .22 likes RWS hobby wadcutters, or the Bisley practice equally as much.
I tried a red dot sight on mine but it kind of takes the enjoyment out of it for some reason. You cant beat open sights on them. I also have a 75 which has the standard black sights. Another awesome even if low powered pistol.
Get a new red ausie seal from the bay; transforms the firing cycle by actually sealing
Always looking for any cheap, interesting, knackered "project" guns. Thanks, JB.