The following guest article was written and submitted by John Veit.
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Halo Sight
by John Veit
A Halo Sight is faster and easier to use than the sights. With it you get automatic and correct sight alignment, and automatic and correct sight placement.
To use it, the tube is brought to eye level, and aligned left – right – up – down, until the inner walls of the tube are not visible and the halo affect appears.
The aligning process is amazingly easy and fast, and is effective when targeting both stationary and moving objects.
How it works:
The openings in the tube’s wall allow light into the tube, which illuminates the portion of tube’s wall that can be seen when aiming and the tube is not inline with a target.
The light also produces the halo affect when the tube is inline with a target by illuminating the small and uniform portion of the wall that can be seen when the tube is inline with the target.
The tube is the core of a Velcro hair roller and has a length of about 2.5 in., and a diameter of about .75 in. (6.5 cm x 2 cm), and a wall thickness of about 1/16th inch (2 mm).
The plastic is flexible and very light. Test firings should be made to see how it works with your gun.
The tube is attached inline with the sights and/or bore, and a strip of double sided adhesive tape can be used for that.
Very High Bond (VHB), tape or a stronger bonding material should be used to prevent the tube from coming loose when shooting a firearm with a slide.
The Halo sight also can be used on a Camcorder. My camcorder has an LCD monitor for use in aiming and framing shots. It can not be seen in bright light. The HLS makes it easy to locate, fix onto, frame, and track action sequences such as low flying airplanes making high speed fly-bys.
A note on self defense shooting.
Scientific investigations and studies of Police combat cases, have established that sights are not used or may not be able to be used in real close quarters life threat situations.
So, one may not be able to use a Halo sight to good affect in such a situation.
If you are a sight shooter, it makes sense to learn how to aim and shoot accurately at close distances without using the sights, and to get comfortable shooting that way. The halo sight can help with that.
The next logical step, is to try and adopt one of the point shooting methods. I tout AIMED Point Shooting or P&S, as it is the simplest and fastest of shooting methods, and utilizes our instinctively pointing ability to fast and accurately engage targets at close quarters.
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Rob Mango
Sep 27, 2011 @ 12:55:40
Or……align your sights.
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John Veit
Sep 27, 2011 @ 18:39:55
As to aligning the sights on the gun:
Using the halo is a faster way to align them correctly and also get a correct sight picture, than is the case when using normal marksmanship practice.
I proved that to myself, and anyone else can prove that to themself as well, and with any kind of gun.
If faster correct alignment is important to you, then you should try it.
Think of it as just a sight that is easier and quicker to use than the ones on most guns.
Here’s a link to my Sept 24 YouTube video of a B-25 bomber making a flyby. I used the Halo stuck on my video cam to frame and track the action.
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John M. Buol Jr.
Sep 28, 2011 @ 07:43:32
>> Using the halo is a faster way to align them correctly and also get a correct sight picture, than is the case when using normal marksmanship practice.
Just over a decade ago USPSA competition shooters experimented with large ring iron sights for Limited Class similar to this. It was supposed to be faster and a number of high-level shooters started using them.
Ultimately, everyone returned to standard post-and-notch iron sights as the “halo” was tested to be inferior.
Of course, your sight is allowed at free style shooting events and you are welcome to use it. I bet if you won the USPSA Limited or Production Nationals or a string of SenisibleShooter events with this sight to demonstrate its superiority many shooters would take serious notice.
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Ted A Sames II
Sep 29, 2011 @ 07:17:21
In the military and in law enforcement, we stress “The KISS Principle”. We embrace and strive to keep this Principle in place at all times.
By looking at this sight in the photos, right off, I can see that it’s impractical, weak, and not needed. New holsters would have to built around the sight, it may interfere with concealability and may not withstand recoil forces. Most social encounters take place at arm’s distance and out to 7 yards at the very maximum.There is no TIME to use any type of sight on your weapon. Under stress of a potentially deadly conflict, your eyes should be focused on the adversary and not on any type of sight. During extremely stressful events, your eyes may not be able to focus on anything except the threat. Similar to the use of the laser, why would you need to follow the laser light with your eyes at a mere 6 feet?
The Israelis and Bruce Siddle (and others) have had this figured out for 20 or more years. At 6 feet, do not be encumbered by any type of sight. Let THE PITBULL EXTEND OUT ON HIS CHAIN…pull the trigger all in warp speed. The pitbull is your weapon and the chain is your arms. Seek a good instructor that teaches Point Shooting (and I don’t mean hip shooting) or the Israeli Instinctive Shooting Method.
Ted A Sames II, Sames Instinctive Shooting School, Ruskin, Florida.
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John Veit
Sep 29, 2011 @ 09:52:56
John,
Thanks for your comments.
The Halo sight works a bit different than the iron sights in that you don’t have to line two items up or concentrate on it.
For me, it’s just natural or instinctive to get the halo to appear, and superimpose it on the target, or find the target and superimpose the halo on it. I have used it on both an airsoft pistol and on my video cam.
For a home defender who is not a competitor, it could be a big help in their learning to “point shoot” with out having to line up the sights under stress or in poor lighting, etc…
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Ted,
Thanks for your comments.
As I said above:
Scientific investigations and studies of Police combat cases, have established that sights are not used or may not be able to be used in real close quarters life threat situations.
So, one may not be able to use a Halo sight to good affect in such a situation.
If you are a sight shooter, it makes sense to learn how to aim and shoot accurately at close distances without using the sights, and to get comfortable shooting that way. The halo sight can help with that.
So, I agree with you that the sights won’t or can’t be used in CQB situations, but you won’t find that thinking to be accepted by many in the world of the gun.
As to the sturdiness of the device, or a holster modification to suit it, I am sure that innovative thinkers and even gun makers could figure out how to make it so it would stand up.
Women often carry guns in purses, so for them, it should pose no problem. For hidden carry purposes, it could pose a problem, but life’s not fair for all.
The miss rate in CQB situations is in excess of 80%, so just blasting away may be OK, but if you are going to be shot and/or killed, there is an 80% chance that it will happen at less than 21 feet. So, learning an – effective – method of “Point Shooting” would be prudent if one has a handgun for self defense.
As said above, I tout AIMED Point Shooting or P&S, as it is the simplest and fastest of shooting methods, and uses our instinctive pointing ability to fast and accurately engage targets at close quarters.
It also can be learned with little or no training, and maintained with minimal practice. Of course practice can improve performance.
Given the current miss rate of 80+%, just knowing how to shoot that way could be a vast improvement over just blasting away.
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