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A trick I learned is to put a snap cap or two somewhere in the magazine. It's best to have a friend load them so you have no idea where they are. Then you can be much more aware of when and how you flinch when it occurs. It is also helpful to do that to practice clearing malfunctions.

Also, are you using magazines with the pinkie rest? Or is your pinkie dangling? I found that with the way I shoot, the pinkie on the grip increases accuracy and recoil control by a wide margin. My groups shrink, I have zero flinch, felt recoil feels less, and the sights magically go back on target after every shot. It's not as quick as a full size, but it's very manageable. It's amazing what a pinkie finger can do to stabilize a pistol. After I found that out with an LC9s I had, I've decided that pocket-sized 9mm pistols are not for me.

The only handguns I've needed to sight in initially are revolvers. I've only had two bottom feeders that didn't shoot right out of the box. The first one is a Rock Island 1911 which had a bad barrel fitment, so the sights weren't the problem. The second is an FN that was ammo sensitive. Hotter ammo shot higher. But there was no issue with left/right accuracy.

When you look at the sights from the top view, do both the front and rear sights look perfectly centered on the slide? Normally, they should be perfectly centered from the factory, but you never know when someone may have fallen asleep when installing them on your gun. You may need to drift one of them back center. If they're already centered, then you'd want to look elsewhere.

Also, has anyone else shot the gun with similar results? That would eliminate the human factor.