When you are out shooting your revolver the next time, take a close look at the sights by putting the gun in the hands of a shooting partner and watching him or her shoot from a vantage point off to one side. With little effort, you can tell that the barrel is actually pointed well below a line that runs through the sights. If those sights are aligned on a target, the barrel is actually pointed several inches lower. In other words, there is an angle between the axis of the bore and the axis of the sights. If you did this with a K38 with 6-inch barrel, you would see a pretty pronounced angle, but if you substituted a 6-inch K22, the angle would be noticeably less. Why? Well, because the gun companies long ago had to decide on how high to make the front sight in order to get centered hits, so they did some empirical testing. The riddle is easier to understand if you accept that the revolver will move in the hand when it is fired and recoil will move the barrel upward before the bullet exits the muzzle. Since the .38 kicks more than the .22, there is more of an angle of offset required to drop a shot right in the old X-ring.
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