What Rob isn’t telling us is that he indeed sees his front sight, rear sight and the dot if he uses one.
The brain can associate and align the sights rapidly and precisely with practice. And, it does so without conscious effort once the basics have been put into both neutral and muscle memory.
If you can’t recall exactly where your front sight was when you broke the trigger and your impact doesn’t match within a few click points, you probably need to go back to deliberate aimed fire to re-impress that ideal into your automatic mind.
Research tells us that people who can recall seeing their front sight hit targets with regularity under stress, those who couldn’t, well, even if they survive, they should’ve seen that front sight.
Front sight, front sight, press.
Point shooting is simply kinesiology at work.
True point shooting, where the pistol is not in line with the eyes, is extremely useful at near contact ranges. Much past a few yards, you’ll really want to know where your front sight is at.
If you recall the video of the Texas church shooting a few years ago, the hero, a shooting instructor, drew and fired a single shot and hit the criminal in the head from about 20 yards in less than a second. His pistol a 357 SIG, wore a red dot sight and the man recalled placing it on the head of the criminal and deliberate pressing the trigger. In a second from aware to hit.
See you sight. Even if in the mental background, that’s true pistolcraft.
Aw, c’mon...I’ve seen Broderick Crawford shoot car tires from a moving helicopter without aiming.
“If you recall the video of the Texas church shooting a few years ago, the hero, a shooting instructor, drew and fired a single shot and hit the criminal in the head from about 20 yards in less than a second. His pistol a 357 SIG, wore a red dot sight and the man recalled placing it on the head of the criminal and deliberate pressing the trigger. In a second from aware to hit.”
Yes, I did forget about that. Thanks for the reminder.