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Unsolicited advice here, but it might be easier to install a lower front than to worry about keeping a different sight picture for your 19m. You’re correct the Gen 5 Ameriglos are set up for combat hold rather than center, but it’s easy to rectify. I just did it on my 19.5 by installing a lower, and as it happens thinner, front post on my Ameriglo Agents. Switching the .140 wide x .200 high front to a .125 wide x .180 high front raised the point of impact from combat to center perfectly.
^ Pretty much this, except I do tend to use the sights even inside of seven. It’s just a matter of training and what we get used to. For me, the sight picture I use is a constant, center hold in my case. Switching from one to the other to yet another wouldn’t work well for me.
That’s because the 9mm uses a different sight height than the .40 for the Glocks. If you tried that 6’oclock hold with your stock G22 barrel, you would be low. This is also why your G48 needs a center hold, it’s a 9mm projectile using the correct sight height.
It’s interesting how different experiences can shape us. I‘m retired LE and former military, so ours have some similarity, but I tend to train from zero to max effective on whichever system I happen to have. If someone is shooting at me from 50 yards away I’m under no obligation to break contact if returning fire is the safer thing to do. So, I occasionally train that far and even farther away with my handguns. I admit it’s not a likely scenario, but it is good training none the less, and still a possibility.
I get that completely. Almost anything I post is just my opinion based on my own life experience. If you're retired LE with a military background, you have more real life experience than I do by far. No military training and only three years in LE when I realized it wasn't my calling. Anyone who shoots at me around here has likely mistaken me for a deer or antelope. I'm not going to shoot back, I'm going to take cover.
I appreciate your perspective on this.
Thanks
No problem. As soon as you drop that G22 barrel back in there, you should be pretty much dead on with a center hold. I’ve found Glock sights across all models to be dead on with a center hold at 25 yards.
For decades I did target shooting with a centerfold. Then I started shooting moving targets and found my self shooting low at 25 and 50 yards. So I switched to the 6 O'Clock hold and then I could hit perfectly.
Shooting without using the sights at less than 5-7 yards is definitely a thing. It just doesn’t happen to be my thing. I never knock anyone who does it provided it works for them, and it works for a lot of people. For me it’s just as fast to pick up a flash sight picture, so that’s what I do. Differences in training and all that jazz. There’s more than one way to skin that particular cat.
Keep in mind, it's only my opinion of things. Target shooting is a legit and fun activity unto itself and I prefer it over SD shooting exercises. When I was in the academy for my department in 1974, the training we got for shooting was at silhouette targets and the instructors yelling at us trying to get us rattled while firing our weapons (primarily, our revolvers and shotguns and after they determined we were handling firearms safely and wouldn't shoot ourselves, classmates, or the instructors). Training now is sooo much better than what we got.
Center hold because you are on target, you wouldn't put a laser sight anywhere else but center
