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Old September 16, 2005, 10:15 PM   #6
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Try shooting with your other hand. See if the shots are still left or not? Sometimes the old-style grip contours will slide in the hand in a way that requires you to shift your grip to keep the recoil going to the rear and not off to one side. Also, a trigger pull with a lot of overtravel can cause some people to pull the gun to the side before the relatively slow lock time and long barrel time of BP guns can get the projectile clear of the muzzle. If either of these are factors in your group center, then shifting hands should move it to center or to the opposite side, depending on whether your weak hand grip has the same fault or not?

Does your front sight stick straight up? An improperly or under-torqued right-hand barrel thread will leave the tip of the front sight too far to the right.

Another thing often checked in tuning is cylinder timing. This has two parts: whether the pawl pushes the cylinder lock notches over the cylinder latch to lock it up before the hand slides clear of the ratchet, and whether the bolt locks the cylinder in position with the chamber centered in the back of the barrel? A problem with either can be corrected, though a pawl sliding off the ratchet too soon usually requires replacement.

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