Worlds Collide: Aiming vs. Sighting (Part 2 of 2)

Okay, let's talk about aiming versus sighting. If you're very, very close, easy shots, we're not gonna aim. Right. We're gonna point the gun and we're gonna pull the trigger. We're gonna do it as fast as we possibly can, look what the hits are and move on, right? Yes. That's just kinda what's really gonna happen, no matter what your theory is. Whether it's defensive or competition. Makes no difference. Absolutely no difference. If the accuracy changes were at eight yards, I need to hit that full-size popper. If I'm coming up all I'm looking for, and you can call it whatever you want, I'm looking for the gun to stop moving. In the time the gun stops moving, I see everything I need to. It comes up, boom, I hit it. Right Now, I probably can hit that little popper You can. doing that because I'm really good and I've done hundreds of thousands of rounds practicing it. Right. But if I, if you told me, Rob, you have to hit that shot. Right. I've got to hit that target in the head. It's gonna look like this. Why? Because it's such a hard shot. You visually verified your sight alignment. I actually looked for, not just the seeing the sight somewhere, Right. but I saw it lined up. Now, do you think I focused on the front sight? I don't know. I think a lot of people would think they would. So for, so for me, I got you, right? I'm gonna drive out, take that shot and drop that target. Never saw the gun, never looked at the gun. Don't know where the target got hit, don't know, don't care Right. because I just kinesthetically aligned it, right? Now, if I drive out on that little target in the back and I don't, I'm just gonna do this for argument's sake, not focus on the front sight, but I'm absolutely gonna be aware that it's there, right? Right. It's the fiber optic, it's big, it's good enough. Right. Right, right. I'm gonna know that it's there and fire the shot. You're gonna hit it. But there was still a delay, but that was not the kind of focus, we were talking earlier, like, if I wanted to try to hit a headshot on that little popper, well, then I'm gonna drive out and take another shot and now I'm gonna drive out and I am absolutely focused on that front sight, but that time I consciously looked at the front sight, got sight line sight picture because I had to hit, what is that? I don't know how wide those things are. Uh, probably four inches. Three inches, five inches, something like that. Yep. Okay. So, three different things, teaching people to do it. How do you do it on the range? Well, I tell people if they don't need to aim, don't aim. I tell people if they need to aim a little bit and that gives you what you need, aim a little bit. If you have aim a lot and you want to focus on the front sight because the shot is so hard, first off, should you even take that shot? That's one thing from the responsibility standpoint. In competition, we have to take the shot. Have to, yeah. They give us ridiculously hard shots. Just do it. So the fact is we always set it for the hard stuff. Right. So the guy will tell you, "Oh yeah, you gotta see a front sight, you gotta see a front sight." No, you gotta see a sight picture. I need to know where the front and the rear and the back is. Never do I focus on clearly seeing the front sight. You know why? These glasses aren't strong enough that I can actually see the front sight and focus. And a lot of you all guys tell me that. I get that out on the range where a guy will say, "I just can't focus that distance." No, you need to get a brighter sight. You need to get a wider notch, the more light has to come through. You gotta fix it. These absolutes, you must look at the front sight, get rid of that. Draw, draw. Vary the amount of focus or awareness you have on their sight picture, but always aim.