Comments on: The Truth About Sights https://tridentconcepts.com/2019/01/19/the-truth-about-sights/ Where Concepts Meet Reality Mon, 27 Feb 2023 23:49:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Jeff Gonzales https://tridentconcepts.com/2019/01/19/the-truth-about-sights/#comment-21744 Sat, 26 Jan 2019 16:16:43 +0000 https://www.tridentconcepts.com/?p=9561#comment-21744 In reply to HDA Training.

I hear what you are saying reference a flash sight picture. While I agree many self defense shootings occur at close range, the principles to marksmanship are universal. My experience in classes has shown me it takes no extra work to teach correct sight alightnment in the beginning. It doesn’t even require live fire, but what it does is program the shooter to understand how to use their sights. The ability to transfer to precise sight alignment for a surgical shot is therefore embedded. The ability to pick up on the dot for a flash sight picture becomes a fluid concept at that point.

We teach three different sight pictures; starting with the target, pre-sight picture and lastly sight picture. More on that in a later blog.

Thanks, great comment!

]]> By: HDA Training https://tridentconcepts.com/2019/01/19/the-truth-about-sights/#comment-21689 Sat, 19 Jan 2019 18:38:11 +0000 https://www.tridentconcepts.com/?p=9561#comment-21689 I get it, but i also challenge it to some degree. My guns are regulated to hit under the dot. Sig sights used to come this way, Ameriglo Agents do as well. Since a flash sight picture / threat focus interruption is easier to achieve, especially in a reactive shooting, ive shown this to produce better hits in force on force and easier for beginners, as well as validation in a close range defensive shooting. If you start them with a red dot rifle, or even a red dot pistol, they understand “float the dot, make the shot” type references. I dont recommend we ignore traditional iron work, but i dont think the average CCW needs to spend a lot of time burning B8s unless they are an enthusiast. If thats the case, we can get way deeper in the weeds and your article is spot on.

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