Sights - or No Sights - which is best??

[cyanide]

At close range the most important thing is the front sight, if that is on target, you will score a hit.

Practice the art of front sight on target and quick shots -- and you will be surprised at how good you become. It is similar to shotgunning.

Front sight on target means a hit, at close range.

Now when the distance opens up a bit you need to align those front and rear sights.

JMO

 

[JMusic]

Cyanide in my opinion there is not much difference between a good front sight shooter and point shooter. That is if I understand what front sight is. I (go easy on me here. I have had alot of proffesional training but only a few courses in the past 20 years) Picture front sight as eyes on target, front sight in periphreal. Is that so?
Jim

 

[ArmedBear]

I was told by an old and expert wingshooter that the way to get the basic feel for point shooting is this:

Get a pair of binoculars and hold them down in front of you.
Lock onto a faraway object with your eyes.
Without moving or looking away from the object, raise the binoculars in front of your eyes. You should see the object through them immediately.

This is a great technique for using binoculars to spot birds, etc., and for pointing a camera quickly.

Once you've done this, do it with your gun of choice, shotgun, rifle or pistol.

Lock onto an object with your eyes, then raise the gun in front of you. The sights should ALREADY be aligned and pointed at the target, and you should be able to just pull the trigger and hit the target without having to do any more precise but time-consuming "aiming." THAT is point-shooting.

If you can't do that after enough practice, sell the Glock and get a 1911.

 

[cyanide]

double tap

 

[cyanide]

Cyanide in my opinion there is not much difference between a good front sight shooter and point shooter. That is if I understand what front sight is. I (go easy on me here. I have had alot of professional training but only a few courses in the past 20 years) Picture front sight as eyes on target, front sight in peripheral. Is that so?
Jim

Yeah, you have it right. Now for the that long shot -- the front sight is clean and sharp the target is slightly blurred as your focus is on the front sight.

As far as your training goes, there isn't much you can do to reinvent the wheel, what you learned back then pretty much works today.

 

[JMusic]

I'm not so bad. I still shoot squirrels with a riflescope.
Jim

 

[hso]

I use both point and front/rear sight shooting depending upon the situation and distance. Brownie taught me to point shoot. Friends and mentors (I'm stealing Steve's lines) taught me to front/rear sight shoot. I now consider Brownie a Friend and Mentor, in part, for teaching me this skill.

This past Sunday half a dozen of us were shooting at my place. As one would expect, everyone was front/rear sight shooting with handguns and having a great time. I was also able to show Mr. Beasley a mugging drill that I'd come up with that required me to engage a pair of slightly seperated targets at close range while standing in front of them and when moving to the right away from them using Brownie's threat focused techniques. He was pleased to see that I zippered each target with my Colt Commander and kept all rounds on path (2 to the left, 4 to the right and back for 2 to the left to slide lock).

In my opinion it's not a one or the other question since both front/rear sight and threat focused shooting are of value and should both be learned.