鉄砲道 — teppoudo

The Wall Drill is an interesting dry fire drill I ran into today.

The Drill proceeds as follows:

• Stand in front of a plain wall, preferably white or another light neutral color.
• Present the pistol so that you’re in your natural stance with the muzzle of the gun approximately 2 inches from the wall
• Focus on the front sight as you dry fire

Since there is nothing else to focus on, you’re pretty much forced to focus on the front sight and sight alignment.

This should create the important subconscious link between the trigger pull and a crystal clear sight picture.

I’m not sure this is a replacement for dry fire with visualization, but it is probably a complement for it.

The search for better sighting systems is always on and there are new innovations in sights being marketed constantly.

In the realm of iron sights on a handgun everything from ghost ring sights to shotgun beads has been tried. The interesting thing is that all the top competitive shooters always return to using partridge sights. Continue reading »

Shooters who come to IPSC from other accuracy focussed disciplines always look for the perfect sight picture.

Calling the shot with a perfect sight picture is indeed an important skill, however at speed, a perfect sight picture is rarely possible or necessary. Movement also complicates the process of getting a perfect sight picture.

In IPSC, given the size of the A zone, the range of sight pictures that would yield an acceptable shot (A zone hit) on the target is relatively large. The important thing to remember is that you only need to hit the A zone, not the actual A . Continue reading »

There is a lot of discussion on where to focus while shooting. The classical instructional model stresses focus on the front sight only. Brian Enos covers 5 types of focus in his book Practical Shooting – Beyond Fundamentals.

Included below is a posting by Ron Avery on the Brian Enos forum that goes beyond treating focus points as discrete entities. Continue reading »

Calling the shot is critical skills in accurate shooting at speed and refers to the skill of knowing exactly where the bullet is going to hit at the instant the shot breaks, before it gets to the target.

It is important to note that the call is simply visual awareness. Calling the shot tells you where the bullet went at the moment the shot broke and has nothing to do with where you wanted the shot to go.

This point is key. Continue reading »