Hey Guys, we are back out on the range today talking about sight alignment.
Sign alignmentis one of the foundations of good pistol shooting. Want to keep in mind everything we are working with here is unloaded.
We are on a range setup for indoor firing.
And we do have a safety protocol in place in case of an emergency. You need to do the same when you are out on the range shooting yourself.
Sight alignment. A lot of misconceptions.
A lot of misunderstood things about guns.
A lot of the students that we have, we hear things like “there something wrong, it’s not me, it’s the gun. The sights are mis-aligned.
These are the wrong sights for the gun. The sights were not installed correctly. Blah blah blah.”
Most every gun I’ve ever picked up shoots
pretty close to where the manufacturer spec’d them. Sometimes there’s a little bit of drift that takes place
But one thing that we notice with our students is they just don’t
know how to line them up today, so that’s what we’re going to look at.
One of the things we see off the bat is, that new students have a problem with is how do
they align this thing? It’s kind of funky. They don’t know what to look at. We say
equal height, equal light. Equal light means each side. They’re centered up.
Front sight post. Rear Sight. You’re going to center them up in the target.
Not left or right. Not up or down. Equal light. Light refers to left or right, which is windage.
Equal height, which is elevation. Going to be straight across. This is going to be pretty
indicative of every standard sight you’re going to see on a pistol or rifle.
What do you look at when you’re sighting a rifle or pistol? Place the front blade over
your intended target, and this is what you are focusing on. It’s going to become obscured
and your front sight is going to come into clear, concise focus. Coincidentally while
we are looking at this target, if for some reason you are not aligned inside the target,
depending completely upon yardage, your round is still going to impact relatively close.
From this position do you know where the bullet is going to go? If you think about it, your
gun is canted to the left in this position, so the round would impact over here. Conversely,
you would have this happen. That’s why we go back to the equal light, equal height.
Many manufactures of training materials show sight pictures like this. Sang calls that
the lollipop. What happens there is if you line up this way and discharge the weapon,
the round is going to impact somewhere around here. Why? Because the bore is below the sights.
So if you want to hit that, you need to actually obscure it with your sights. And this is all
dependent on distance and the size of the target, but if you start out correctly, you’re
going to figure it out real quick. What does all this stuff mean to you? It means
when you’re out on the range you need to be thinking about what you’re doing. Not
just simply sending bullets into the trap and wasting your hard-earned money. Remember,
we’re learning this stuff to defend the lives of our family members and loved ones.
So take it seriously. Pay attention to the sight alignment. It’s going to keep the
rounds in the intended direction and allow you to become a better shooter.
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