Sentence examples for adjusting the sights from inspiring English sources

That process of spotting, adjusting the sights, and altering the bullet's ballistic trajectory bit by bit and degree by degree may soon no longer be necessary: Sandia Labs has developed a bullet with a built-in processor that guides its own flight via tiny adjustable fins.

With the comparatively old 0.303 deer-stalking rifle, or with, say, the 0.400 big-game rifle, animals can be shot through the heart at any distance between, say, 30 and 230 yards, without in any way altering the aim or adjusting the sight.

Vann had discovered that, despite more than one and two-thirds billion dollars in American military aid between 1955 and mid-1961, and the supposed guidance of a six-hundred-and-fifty-man training mission for most of those years, few troops knew how to adjust the sights of their rifles and carbines well enough to hit a target, let alone a guerrilla.

You may need to move your right wrist to adjust the sights to point forward.

"It's good for opening cans," Roland says, before demonstrating how he uses the knife to adjust the sight on his Sturmgewehr 90 rifle.

So, as Jacob had taught me, I held my hands up in a small square to adjust the "sight-size"—making both the thing seen and the thing drawn fit into the same square and then, in frustration, held a thumb out and squinted with one eye so that I could have an easier measure of the distance, as I saw it.

So, as Jacob had taught me, I held my hands up in a small square to adjust the "sight-size" — making both the thing seen and the thing drawn fit into the same square — and then, in frustration, held a thumb out and squinted with one eye so that I could have an easier measure of the distance, as I saw it.

If the arrow is not in the center, then adjust the sight, following the arrow.

An Allen wrench, available at hardware stores, will be needed to adjust the sighting pins.

You can also check your sight's instruction manual to determine the correct number of clicks needed to properly adjust the sight.

Check the shot grouping, and adjust the sight so that when aimed at the center of the bullseye, the bullets hit about 3 inches (7.6 cm) above center.