HighVelocity wrote:jbirds1210 wrote:
One of the drills that TxD taught me a while back was to put five rounds into the berm....fast.......very fast. There is no target as the front sight should be getting 100% of the attention. Where does it go after your shot? Up and left....down and right? Once I learned where my sights go after breaking the shot, I was able to simulate this in my imagination during dry fire practice.
It is much easier to get my sight back to where it is supposed to be if I already know where it is going. I am not claiming to have perfected this, but TxD did not imagine this stuff.....it works
IT feels like you are shooting much slower until you take a look at the shot timer!
It's interesting to me how alike and how different we think sometimes. I have never paid any attention to where my front sight goes when the shot breaks. I just know where it's going to be WHEN the shot breaks.
Call it the Gretzky approach if you will. I don't look where the front sight is going, I look where the front sight is going to be.
HV,
It's all about shot calling and getting proper visual imput to the brain.
I'll use the analogy of a new student driver.
They get in the car and try to drive in the center of a lane by looking just over the hood and mentally trying to measure the distance to the lane edges. Here's what is happening. They have asked their brain to keep the car in the center of the lane but are not providing proper info from the eyes to accomplish the task. The instructor then says to look further up the road and driving becomes much easier because the brain is receiving useful info from the eyes.
Now, back to high speed shooting.
The fundamentals of a high scoring shot on target are; grip, stance, sight
alignment, trigger control, and follow through. In order for the brain to confirm that these elements are performed correctly, we can look for the hit (call the shot
on the target) with the eyes. Only then is the brain ready for the next command.
This type of confirmation (looking for hits on target) is too slow in multiple shot high speed shooting.
We must be able to call the shot without moving the eyes to the target.
We may think that if the sights were in proper alignment when the shot was fired that this would be sufficient. However, the brain knows that if the grip was wrong or the trigger management was incorrect, the shot will be off, even though the sights were correctly aligned. This is readily apparent in weak/strong hand shooting.
The brain wants confirming info after the shot is fired.
We are looking at the sights already so no time is wasted by seeing them cycle up and back down into the notch for the next shot. If all the fundamentals were correct, the sight will cycle the same way every time. In high speed shot calling, this happens without thought, without trying, and only by observing.
Now for an example, back to the driving analogy.
When you drove to work this morning, I will bet that at no time did you think about the mechanics of driving. Your eyes told your brain how to drive you to work. You didn't consciously have to think Ok, there is a stop sign ahead, I am approaching at 55 mph so I will need to apply the brakes about here, etc, etc. You drove the car by observing with your eyes and the brain told the rest of your body what to do without further conscious thought.
Also note that if you start looking at your cell phone to enter a number, your driving suffers until you look outside again.
Ultimate high speed shooting is the same. Drive the gun with your eyes by observing the front sight and the brain will control the rest of your body.
The other method that I frequently employ is to get a sight picture, close my eyes , and yank the trigger twice......... as fast as I can.
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