CNYCacher
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Do you feel I am approaching this properly?
While shooting:
Generally, I hold my breath before firing. I focus on my sights and let the target go blurry (I can't focus on the sights and the target at the same time, can anyone?). I try to line up the target the same way each time, and when I fire, a slowly squeeze the trigger and most of the time I am surprised by the gun going off. I used to yank the trigger back, but I realized that knowing the moment the gun would fire caused me to flinch a lot, so now I concentrate on keeping still and squeezing the trigger, and when the gun goes off, it goes off. As I get more and more used to the recoil, I am able to do this more quickly without flinching.
Sighting in a gun:
My personal philosophy on sighting is that you should always aim for the point that you want to hit, and adjust the sights for howver it is that you see the target and sights. Someone I know insists that you need to learn how to use the sights on the gun, and that once the gun is sighted in properly by one person, everyone else who uses it should be able to hit bulls all day. My appraoch is to first get to the point where you are able to shoot consistent groups, then adjust your sights to "trick" yourself into putting your groups accurately on-target. When I take someone shooting with my guns, I tell them that the guns are sighted in for me, and they should just aim at the bullseye every time, and if they get a good group anywhere on the paper, that is a good thing, it doesn't matter that they aren't hitting the bull, because if these were their own guns, we could just change the sights for them.
We don't do a lot of discussing basic technique here on THR, just wondering what everyone's opinion is.
While shooting:
Generally, I hold my breath before firing. I focus on my sights and let the target go blurry (I can't focus on the sights and the target at the same time, can anyone?). I try to line up the target the same way each time, and when I fire, a slowly squeeze the trigger and most of the time I am surprised by the gun going off. I used to yank the trigger back, but I realized that knowing the moment the gun would fire caused me to flinch a lot, so now I concentrate on keeping still and squeezing the trigger, and when the gun goes off, it goes off. As I get more and more used to the recoil, I am able to do this more quickly without flinching.
Sighting in a gun:
My personal philosophy on sighting is that you should always aim for the point that you want to hit, and adjust the sights for howver it is that you see the target and sights. Someone I know insists that you need to learn how to use the sights on the gun, and that once the gun is sighted in properly by one person, everyone else who uses it should be able to hit bulls all day. My appraoch is to first get to the point where you are able to shoot consistent groups, then adjust your sights to "trick" yourself into putting your groups accurately on-target. When I take someone shooting with my guns, I tell them that the guns are sighted in for me, and they should just aim at the bullseye every time, and if they get a good group anywhere on the paper, that is a good thing, it doesn't matter that they aren't hitting the bull, because if these were their own guns, we could just change the sights for them.
We don't do a lot of discussing basic technique here on THR, just wondering what everyone's opinion is.
]...your sight picture can change from bench, to offhand, to kneeling, to prone. That is why you have zeroing shots before firing a given position/range. In addition, each individuals zero can be different due to each's individual sight picture; should be very close but slightly different, such that a different zero is required. No human body is exactly identical to another.