Received from Colorado Pete
What can your front sight/crosshairs tell you?
- Whether or not you’re focusing on it (sharp vs. blurry iron sight)
- Whether or not you have proper iron sight alignment
- Whether or not you have proper sight picture
- Whether or not your natural point-of-aim is on target (before the shot, and after recoil)
- How big your wobble zone is in minutes of angle (how well you can hold)
- Calling where the shot went (you didn’t blink)
- Ranging device – military front sight width & height (Duplex crosshairs too)
- Elbow under the rifle (vertical, not diagonal movement while breathing)
- Detect movement caused by flinching/bucking/jerking in dry fire/ball & dummy
- Seeing the sight lift in recoil at the shot (you didn’t blink)
Listen to your front sight! Much of your self-diagnosis and improvement can be accomplished by the above list.
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Colorado Pete
Mar 26, 2012 @ 12:56:04
I should have clarified the above – it was written mostly for rifle shooters, but most of it goes for pistol as well.
One facet of pistol use is seeing your front sight drop down from recoil back to good sight alignment all by itself, which tells you your grip tension is correct.
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