or post on it: Gunfighting and Neuroscience: Why Using Your Front Sight Might Kill You.
He's talking about looking at the front sight as you're raising it to face a threat instead of keeping your vision on the threat. Take a look if you have time, see what you think.
3 comments:
I don't know anything about "quiet eye" but I was taught a traditional sight picture. Through learning "muscle memory" to establish the sight picture one day I transitioned focus from the sights to always focusing on the target. This happened naturally during competition. Now it is completely unnatural for me to look at the sight picture unless it is in my peripheral. I also established much faster competition times and accuracy as well. Another side effect is my weak hand accuracy is almost as good as my strong hand.
Calling BS on this one. You have to start by using the sights in order to make it part of muscle memory. These SWAT officers are not hip shooting, the gun is up in its' proper position. They are probably taking a "flash" sight picture or using the profile of the gun to sight in.
He lost all credibility with me when he wrote "Cue angry boomer screeching."
Anyone who A) groups people together by some innate trait (like age or race) like a leftist, B) pre-emptively dismisses the opinions of anyone from that group in derogatory terms without having even heard their arguments yet and C) dismisses their opinions out of hand simply because he's a bigot is not worthy of consideration.
Every few years someone trying to make a name for themselves comes out with some tenet or theory that flies in the face of conventional wisdom. They often portray it as some "scientific" discovery or breakthrough that will revolutionize things, but what it actually is designed to do is generate controversy (which he anticipates with his "boomers" quip) and increase their own notoriety.
This happens often in the medical and education communities as well, which is how we end up with "natural fats are bad for you" (they're not) and "new math" (which isn't math).
This is not a new controversy, it's been going on for decades. They used to call it "point shooting" and some people can do it very well. Most people can't, even with lots of practice.
Many of the things he says in that piece are not wrong, but the overall premise of the piece is, in my "screeching boomer" opinion.
Post a Comment