Help a newbie find his sight picture when drawing.

[Nostratic]

Probably a pretty straightforward answer to this one.

Basically, when I draw, should I be finding the front sight as I'm bring the gun up to the target, or should I keep my eyes fixed on the target and bring the sights up to my line of sight?

In practice it seems more practical to find the sight about halfway up after drawing and find the target with my peripheral vision. It feels like I'm finding a good sight picture a bit more quickly that way (although I'm practicing with dry firing at a very relaxed tempo).

 

[Supermoto]

I keep my eyes on the target, until the gun is up on target, with practice the sights will come up onto the target instictively. Now what you want to do on the draw is come up diagonally from the holster, but alittle steeper than you need to. The last motion of getting on target will be pushing the gun straight forward to the target, instead of coming from below. It is that straight push at the end that allows you to find the sight quickly

Bring the gun up to you, otherwise you have to find the sights and the target again. your eyes shouldn't move off the target to find the sight, they only should change focus

 

[mete]

I always try to impress on people the importance of a gun pointing well for the shooter. Face the target , close your eyes, point the gun at the target. Then open your eyes - the sights should be close to right on. If not get a gun that is ! This means that only minor corrections have to be made to aim. In combat[matches too] you focus on the target , bring the gun up into the sighting area, then bring your focus back to the front sight and make final corrections.

 

[HSMITH]

Bring the gun up into your vision, don't take your vision to the gun.

Work slowly in dry fire, bring the speed up only as fast as you are able to get a good sight picture the instant the gun comes up into your line of sight.

The key here is quality repetitions. Make every rep a perfect rep and the speed will come quickly.