The best advice I ever heard at a match was to "shoot fast, slow".
One of my first instructors always said, "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast." Military phrase, I'd imagine. He was also a big fan of "if it ain't raining, we ain't training."
The best advice I ever heard at a match was to "shoot fast, slow".
I've bolded the operative terms from my original post. If you are just as accurate, faster is always better.jim243 said:It is better to be accurate than fast and dead.It will be slower to get the first shot on target
This is one of my training mantras also.One of my first instructors always said, "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."
I've bolded the operative terms from my original post. If you are just as accurate, faster is always better.
Unless you have a vision impairment, open sights are almost twice as fast getting the first accurate shot on the target. It is faster to see the aligned sights superimposed over the target than to locate the appearance of the dot on the target
Surely with some repetitive training and proper indexing of the body, you can get a consistent draw out and pick up the dot faster? What are the benefits of dot over open sights?
The best advice I ever heard at a match was to "shoot fast, slow".
Personally, I don't think so. It is awfully hard to do a head-to-head comparison, though, as you'd need one person exactly equally skilled with both types. Or equally practiced at least.Surely with some repetitive training and proper indexing of the body, you can get a consistent draw out and pick up the dot faster? What are the benefits of dot over open sights?
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Surely with some repetitive training and proper indexing of the body, you can get a consistent draw out and pick up the dot faster? What are the benefits of dot over open sights?
Personally, I don't think so. It is awfully hard to do a head-to-head comparison, though, as you'd need one person exactly equally skilled with both types. Or equally practiced at least.
Sorry for being slow to respond and thanks to the folks who tried to fill in while I was off-line.Surely with some repetitive training and proper indexing of the body, you can get a consistent draw out and pick up the dot faster? What are the benefits of dot over open sights?
I have shot both iron sights and a dot quite a lot. I went to the dot because of aging eyeballs, and I really do prefer the dot for all around shooting.Personally, I don't think so. It is awfully hard to do a head-to-head comparison, though, as you'd need one person exactly equally skilled with both types. Or equally practiced at least.