Tried shooting 20 yds offhand without my prescription lenses

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Ruger MKIII 22/45 with VQ sear and trigger, Clark bushing, HiViz FO front sight. Standing 2 hands. I forgot my glasses so just used safety glasses and held 6 o’clock just below the black blob/blur.

I’ve been reading about bullseye technique for 25 yds and up where all you see is a blur above the front sight and I can’t figure out how you define the edge of the blur. I guess it works though, at least once.

99-3X is very good for me. I’m sure you real bullseye guys are laughing :D Remington Golden Bullet bulk pack.
 
1KPerDay said:
Not sure why that shows us that... but feel free to elucidate.
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Your practice was sighted fire even though blurred by a lack of Rx glasses. It seems you placed more trust in your POA before squeezing the trigger without your glasses. It struck me that this is what I do - trust my POA - when I practice point shooting vs sighted fire (though yours was at a much greater distance than I practice).
 
Looks like your natural point of aim you've developed has paid some dividends. Looks like you can shoot better than me half-blind :uhoh:. Really good for 20 yards and half-blind. I'm only an ok pistol shooter, really need to work on that.
 
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Your practice was sighted fire even though blurred by a lack of Rx glasses. It seems you placed more trust in your POA before squeezing the trigger without your glasses. It struck me that this is what I do - trust my POA - when I practice point shooting vs sighted fire (though yours was at a much greater distance than I practice).
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Ah I see. Though this was most definitely sighted fire. I was just focusing hard on my front sight whereas I typically go back and forth or keep a target focus for fast shooting.
 
99 - 3x is an excellent score with or without glasses. Curious if this is how you shoot with your glasses on.
 
URIT said:
Your practice was sighted fire even though blurred by a lack of Rx glasses. It seems you placed more trust in your POA before squeezing the trigger without your glasses. It struck me that this is what I do - trust my POA - when I practice point shooting vs sighted fire (though yours was at a much greater distance than I practice).
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I think you're backwards. Traditional aimed fire with iron sights requires a hard front-sight focus, with a blurry target. "Point shooting" usually means target-focus with blurry sights, or even no sight awareness at all.

The lack of prescription lenses meant it was impossible for the OP to do what would be called "point shooting" by most, and, if anything, validates the old-school, hard front-sight-focus approach for shooting distant things.
 
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