Oh, I see. I guess it is a difference in training, but at least now we understand where our differences are. I was trained that correct line of sight connects two points - center of rear sight aperture and tip of front sight post, and process of aiming is to put that line of sight on target. If one does it that way, then it is easy to understand that if one wants to also have circles aligned, then it only can be done if geometric center of front circle coincides with tip of front post. However if you get your sight picture without connecting tip and center of rear sight - which, I understand, is the way you do it - then that geometric thing becomes non-issue.
I prefer the M4 style. I to found myself subconciously aligning the rear peep with the round front. I guess I could have just raised the front sight post 1/2 way up the sight but I don’t believe that was it’s design. To me growing up shooting '03s, Garands, M1As/M14s, M16s and M4s the M4 style just works more natually. IMHO natural is better it’s just like in rifle shooting getting your ‘natural POA’ etc.
The clear tip of the front sight post is centered both vertically and horizontally in the rear sight aperture, regardless of which style front one uses.
If you’re getting results by not doing that…great!..but do not speak to that subject as though that’s the way it is supposed to be. You’d be the exception, not the rule.
There was a thread, in AR Technical, if I recall correctly, that pointed to how the wings of a FSB can vary in sizes, whereas the front sight posts are all the same size and put in the same spot in relation to the barrel. That, how big the wings are compared to a front sight post, plus any quick perusal of an AR-platform user manual…yeah, the post is centered in the aperture.
Lining up circles on an HK front is nice for quick/easy initial alignment of your sights. After that, you put the tip in the center of the rear aperture, and if the front circle formed by the wings is high or low within the rear aperture, it’s totally irrelevant.
Went looking for the thread, can’t find it.
Regardless of the method if it is done the same every time it will put rounds where they are needed.
whereas the front sight posts are all the same size and put in the same spot in relation to the barrel.
There are many manufactures that make different size front sight posts. You are saying the wings are different, but everything else in what is suppose to be a “mil-spec” front sight is the same? I also doubt a CNC milled front sight would be the same as a M16 type FSB. THis topic was about the Troy sights in particular, and has wandered a bit.
I see what people are talking about with the front sight post being centered. But with the Troy HK sights, how would adjusting the rifle to make the front sight post centered (negating the circle alignment or causing a mis-alignment), and adjusting the rifle to place the target on the front sight post (with circles aligned) be any different?