Mar 09
Sight Alignment refers to the relationship between the front sight and the rear sight. Nothing else. You can have a “perfect” alignment without being “aimed” at anything.
Sight Alignment should really be a function of your body index.
Sight Picture refers to the relationship between the Sight Alignment and the target.
Sight Alignment is significantly more important since any errors in sight alignment have a multiplicative effect on the target, i.e., a little error in the sight alignment will translate into a significantly bigger error on the target.
If the sight picture is not perfect, but the sight alignment is, any error will manifest itself linearly on the target.
Mar 09
Accuracy is simply a combination of sight picture and trigger control.
Since no one can hold a gun perfectly motionless, all guns will move when held unsupported.
The area the front sight describes on the target as it moves is called the wobble zone. More experienced shooters may have a smaller wobble zone, however all shooters will have a wobble zone.
Most people have ability to shoot a group significantly smaller than their wobble zone. Continue reading »
Mar 09
Detailed discussion on shooting technique can be found in a number of locations.
A huge revelation for me (and maybe it shouldn’t have been) was the difference between technique and fundamentals. I listened to an interview with Brian Enos in which he described the fundamentals of shooting.
According to Brian the fundamentals of shooting are: Continue reading »