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well this post has less pictures than usual so no need to post up a link! I got some good feedback on this post so I figured I would post it here as well so hopefully it helps some shooters having troubles.
Based on reading the forums and talking to newer shooters at the range, it seems like about 50% cant get a good solid front sight focus while keeping their sights properly aligned and have troubles figuring out what they are doing wrong. I thought I would address this for you readers and hopefully help a few of you out.
A front sight focus is critical for accuracy and speed. Once you can keep your front sight in focus your shot calling will go from educated (or total) guesses to at least in the right scoring zone of an IPSC target. As for speed, well you can't track your sight through recoil if you cant see it before recoil start right?
The first and most important thing about a front sight focus is taken from the very wording its self. All you want to focus on is the front sight, not the target, not the rear sight, simply that post on the end of your gun. It is really easy to think "well I need to look at the target though to make sure I'm hitting it". No, you don't. That blurry brown shape? that is all your really need for sight alignment, through practice you will know where your sights need to be just by instinct; and besides, you saw the target when your eyes went to it while you were transitioning... you did move your eyes first right?
Another easy thing to get caught in is looking at your rear sights, because we were all taught to line up our shots by putting the front sight level with the rear sight and then putting it in the middle of the rear sight notch your eyes will want to look there to double check. This is 100% the wrong mentality, your eyes are very very slow when trying to put something EXACTLY in the middle of two other things, and to add to the slowness you are pulled into looking at the rear sight. What you actually need to tell your brain to do is align the top of the front sight with the rear, then forget about the rear sight and simply make the light bars on either side of your front sight equal. Your brain is much better and quicker at doing this than putting it in the middle and there is no way to look at the rear sight because it has ceased to be a sight and has simply become a convenient way to make light bars.
I promised a drill in the title to help you with this, so here it is.
This is a dryfire drill you can do at home any time; what you do is stand in a well lit room about 6 inches farther than arms length from a blank wall and dryfire. Over and over and over again. Stare at your front sight and never let it be anything other than tack sharp. Yes your eyes will probably start to hurt, and if they do take a break but come back and do it some more. when you have half an hour of this done (not including breaks, cheaters) then you can move on to another dryfire drill but always remember the front sight above all else.
I hope this post helps you break through the front sight wall! Please do me a favour and like shooter ready on facebook, there should even be a button on the top right of this post to make it easy for you.
Based on reading the forums and talking to newer shooters at the range, it seems like about 50% cant get a good solid front sight focus while keeping their sights properly aligned and have troubles figuring out what they are doing wrong. I thought I would address this for you readers and hopefully help a few of you out.
A front sight focus is critical for accuracy and speed. Once you can keep your front sight in focus your shot calling will go from educated (or total) guesses to at least in the right scoring zone of an IPSC target. As for speed, well you can't track your sight through recoil if you cant see it before recoil start right?
The first and most important thing about a front sight focus is taken from the very wording its self. All you want to focus on is the front sight, not the target, not the rear sight, simply that post on the end of your gun. It is really easy to think "well I need to look at the target though to make sure I'm hitting it". No, you don't. That blurry brown shape? that is all your really need for sight alignment, through practice you will know where your sights need to be just by instinct; and besides, you saw the target when your eyes went to it while you were transitioning... you did move your eyes first right?
Another easy thing to get caught in is looking at your rear sights, because we were all taught to line up our shots by putting the front sight level with the rear sight and then putting it in the middle of the rear sight notch your eyes will want to look there to double check. This is 100% the wrong mentality, your eyes are very very slow when trying to put something EXACTLY in the middle of two other things, and to add to the slowness you are pulled into looking at the rear sight. What you actually need to tell your brain to do is align the top of the front sight with the rear, then forget about the rear sight and simply make the light bars on either side of your front sight equal. Your brain is much better and quicker at doing this than putting it in the middle and there is no way to look at the rear sight because it has ceased to be a sight and has simply become a convenient way to make light bars.
I promised a drill in the title to help you with this, so here it is.
This is a dryfire drill you can do at home any time; what you do is stand in a well lit room about 6 inches farther than arms length from a blank wall and dryfire. Over and over and over again. Stare at your front sight and never let it be anything other than tack sharp. Yes your eyes will probably start to hurt, and if they do take a break but come back and do it some more. when you have half an hour of this done (not including breaks, cheaters) then you can move on to another dryfire drill but always remember the front sight above all else.
I hope this post helps you break through the front sight wall! Please do me a favour and like shooter ready on facebook, there should even be a button on the top right of this post to make it easy for you.
