鉄砲道 — teppoudo

There is a lot of debate as to whether to shoot with both eyes open, or just one. I thought the consensus was to use both eyes if you were capable of doing so. In fact some people have gone to the extent of obscuring the view of the non-dominant eye partially and keeping both eyes open.

Based on the above, I had been diligently training to use both eyes under all circumstances. I had good success with shorter distances, but was still having issues (target ghosting etc.) at distances > 25 yards.

Listening to a conversation between Angus Hobdell and Matt Burkett changed all that and opened the topic up again. 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 »

As described in Eye Alignment and Eye Focus, vision is a complicated process.

There are a number of muscles involved in creating a clear focussed image that the brain processes.

The muscles can be groups into essentially two sets:

• Muscles that control Eye Focus (Lens Focus)
• Muscles that control Eye Alignment

Increasing the speed with which your muscles can acquire and focus on objects is often measured on the clock in sports like IPSC. As covered in the fundamentals, you can only shoot accurately as fast as you can see. Continue reading »

This video of Travis Tomasie performing one of the most amazing pistol reloads I’ve ever seen. It has to be seen to be believed. Don’t blink. 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 »