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parabelum wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2020 8:11 pm I know that when I shoot low left it’s usually me flinching

Seriously though, at what distance were you firing?

Medley86 wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2020 7:31 pm I ordered and picked up a new hellcat a few weeks ago. Right out of the box it shot low left. Made adjustments to make sure it wasn't me pushing the shots off, and when dry firing the front sight doesn't move on the trigger break. Went back out and still low left, every time I shoot it the groups are decent but always low left. This was the 1st 9mm i have owned(bought the wife a shield 2.0 9 at the same time) and the only ammo I could get at the time was some 115 gr fiochii. Her shield does fine with it good center hits, but mine is always off. Even had a couple other people try and they did the same. I plan on trying some different weight bullets to find something that hits closer. Has anyone else bought a pistol which is reviewed to be fairly accurate and had to play with the sights to get it on right out of the box? I also own a Springfield xdm in 40sw and it was and is dead on right out of the box.

strogg wrote: ↑Sat May 16, 2020 12:39 pm 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.

cyphertext wrote: ↑Sat May 16, 2020 1:50 pm What kind of sight picture are you using? I don't have a Hellcat, but when I got my Sig P290, I constantly shot low. Found that I was not using the correct sight picture. I was trying to use the center hold sight picture, where the top of my sights would split the target in half. I then learned that the Sig pistol was set up for "combat sight picture" where you align the dots on the front and rear like normal, but you cover the center of the target with the dot.

Not sure if that is your issue, but just a thought.