Breaking Rear Sight Mid Match

[Kory]

Steel match this morning, shooting OK and then out of nowhere I just couldn't hit anything. I wasted half a mag missing badly, bouncing shots off the ground in front of the target, focusing hard on the front sight and target and missing like I never have before. Then I realized the rear sight had snapped off halfway through the array of targets.

I guess I wasn't all that aware, to have not noticed a broken off rear, I was only alerted to it by 10 shots in a row that missed easy targets which made me think something is not right and stop shooting to investigate. That is a whole different problem.

This fear was the reason I switched from an adjustable rear to a fixed. Adjustable rears have a roll pin, screw, and other little parts to break, even though mine never did break. Damned fixed sight just snapped in two, no smacking it on anything and it didn't even get to stay on the CZ long enough to get the black worn off the corners.

At least I had a backup pistol to finish up.