Training: Two eyes, Front sight...

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DreQo wrote:

I just can't put the two together. If I close one eye and focus on the front sight, I am a VERY accurate shot. If I open the other eye, though, everything goes down hill. Either I focus on the target and tend to shoot a ring around the center of the target (more low and left than anything, actually), or I focus on the front sight and see two blurry targets. Now I know that the "real" target will be the one on the right, since I'm using my right eye. That doesn't make it any easier, though. It gets even worse when I consider shooting a moving target. I just can't track a moving target while it's blurry and doubled!

I crossed this bridge a while ago when moving up the ranks. The top shooters (Leatham, et al.) used the both-eyes-open technique. I tried to adapt but I always saw two targets. So I went back to single eye. If you can't join em, beat em.

Granted, any of my IPSC targets always have good, if not great first shots. It's the 2nd shot that's not consistent. Sometimes I put 'em both through one hole. Sometimes I completely miss the second time. Of course that's a completely different issue, but I wonder if my inconsistency with my aiming technique is effecting my double-tap accuracy.

Sounds like you are a typical C class shooter, aiming once and pulling the trigger twice. (Alpha-Charlie on mosttargets.)Always make two (or however many) aimed shots with separate and distinct sight pictures. You can't catch the big dogs by shooting as fast as them, you have to see as fast them. The big dogs are faster with their splits not just because they have better recoil control and faster fingers, but because they learned how to trade sight picture quality for speed. You don't needyourperfect 50 yard sight picture at 5 yards.

One-eyed aiming is working out OK for me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P61V-11KjYYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P61V-11KjYY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb-6FTVhcgI