[ThreadKiller]

OK, I've read over and over again about how I'm supposed to focus on the front sight. Fine, I can do that and it works. But I am left with the impression that I should be able to keep the sight in focus during the entire recoil cycle. How? Once I trip the trigger, that sight is up and out of there, replaced by smoke. Once I pull the Sig back into alignment, I pick up the sight and I'm ready to go.

I'm of the opinion that to keep the sight in view and in focus during recoil is a superhuman feat. I feel just keeping my eyes open and looking for the sight to return to view is doing pretty good.

Am I doomed to failure and remain a mere mortal or am I simply misinterpreting the guidance I've received thus far?

I know I've been beating this subject to death here but this issue is key to shooting well IMHO. Got to get it down!!

Thanks,

Tim

[38snapcaps]

Mere mortal that I am, I concentrate on the front sight until it disappears in recoil and then re-acquire it as it drops back down into my line of vision.

As soon as the target and front sight line up again, pull the trigger.

[OF]

Snapcaps has it. The front sight is recoiling with the slide, too - so it's racing back at your face pretty fast. You'll have a hard time keeping focus on it as you'll have to change your focal distance to follow it back towards you (in addition to up and down).

If you have your front sight on a comp, it's easier. When it's on the slide it's not going to happen...at least I can't keep it in focus. I see it, it recoils and I pick it up again as it drops back down.

- Gabe

[ThreadKiller]

This is what I figured. My 220 isn't comp'ed or anything fancy. Just an ordinary Sig.

Now I don't feel so bad.

Thanks again,

Tim

[OF]

The key I've found (not that I'm any good at it) is to see the front sight leave the notch. If you can actually watch it go bye bye, you can call your shots - which is the whole point.

- Gabe

[JoeHatley]

Tim,

Do you shoot at The Bullet Hole?

Joe

[Standing Wolf]

But I am left with the impression that I should be able to keep the sight in focus during the entire recoil cycle.

That's virtually impossible to do even with .22 shorts in a match pistol.

[ThreadKiller]

Further evidence of my misunderstanding. I was beginning to think that I just had really, really bad eyes. :)

Gotta watch that front site leave and then come back. That's all there is to it. Simple.

Tim

[Island Beretta]

you need a continuous sight picture to really improve accuracy AND speed.

At times it may not always be in focus (and you don't need it to always be in focus) during the recoil cycle but it must remain in at least the peripheral vision. SEE WHAT YOU NEED TO SEE..

Go out an practice this.. Shoot into a berm concentrating on watching the front sight only.. keep this up until you start to develop the habit..

you may also want to do eye strengthening and eye speed exercises.. The human eye can make out an image flashing at 24 flashes per second.. the best the best of us can do is about 8 trigger pulls per second, so we have time to acquire 3 sight pictures per trigger pull..we just have to trust and let it happen!!

[ChristopherG]

Read Brian Enos's 'Practical Shooting: Beyond Fundamentals' for an excellent discussion of different types and quality of focus (foci?) for different kinds of shooting. Even Enos doesn't keep the sight in motion through the action (when he's not shooting a gun with the sight fixed on the compensator), and he's... well, he's Enos. Really--very thought-provoking reading full of good practical advice as well as some rather esoteric cheerleading.
cg

[OF]

Read Brian Enos's 'Practical Shooting: Beyond Fundamentals' for an excellent discussion of different types and quality of focus (foci?) for different kinds of shooting.Best book on shooting I've ever read, by a wide margin. Can not recommend it highly enough.

- Gabe