Blackstone45

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There is a reason Olympic shooters (and presumably bullseye shooters) wear an occluder over their non-shooting eye. For static, precision shooting, there is no benefit to having both eyes open. I find it much easier to focus on the front sight when I only have one eye open. As IVC said, when you have both eyes open, your brain wants to start jumping focus between the sights and the target.

Yeah I ran into a similar problem recently. I was shooting around a barricade and messed up my positioning so that it was blocking the view of my right eye. But because my left eye was unobstructed, my brain just went with seeing through the left. Until I brought my sights up in front of my right eye. Then my brain got very confused.

A lot of good followup posts here. Before I understood the concept of being able to focus and converge on different things, I tried very hard to focus and converge on the front sight at the same time, because that's what I was always taught ("to focus on the front sight"). With two eyes open, this resulted in me seeing two targets, and it was almost impossible to shoot this way because I got very confused about which target to aim at. It was a lot easier for my brain to ignore the extra pair of sights when converging on the target instead.

A crystal clear front sight is more important than a crystal clear target. Having perfect sight alignment is much more important than having perfect sight "placement". Because a small error in sight alignment will translate to a large error downrange. Bullseye shooters will generally use the 6 o'clock hold, with their point of aim somewhere in the white below the black bull. This provides them with a good reference point to aim at, without requiring them to focus on that point. The other reason they use 6 o'clock hold is that it puts the black sights against a white background. Hope this makes sense.

The key is to not be distracted during it. No point pushing yourself to dry fire for an extended amount of time if your heart isn't in it.

I assume because tilting a gun affects the point of impact, bullseye shooters will use a straight gun because that is what their gun is sighted for.

I cant slightly when shooting right-hand-only because it feels more natural. I cant more when shooting left-hand-only in order to help bring the sights in front of my dominant right eye. However, if I'm shooting bullseye or other precision, I don't cant at all.

No, I believe MM is making a reference to the scantily clad women shooting guns that feature in most of Taran's videos, and is sarcastically referring to them as pro shooters

You're very right, now I'm struggling a bit with the Trainer

So 100lbs corresponds to the 'Trainer' model of the Captains of Crush grippers, so it's pretty reassuring to hear that it's not a ridiculous amount of squeezing force required

I move the gun back a bit, turn my hand 90 degrees clockwise and break my wrist to present the magwell. Why? Because in our ranges, the muzzle cannot point above the berm.

Agreed, snapcap thing is only to prove that they're flinching when they are adamant that they are not. Best way I think to help fix a flinch is a lot of dry firing to build that muscle memory of only moving your trigger finger.

Wish it was affordable to get my hands on Steve's books in the UK

After I got the LOK palm swell grips, my recoil management has never felt better

Back in 2011, the CZ SP-01 Shadow was my first gun purchase, after reading a few reviews about it and getting a really good deal on one. Only this year am I finally replacing it with something else for competition shooting but it'll probably forever remain in my cabinet.

Let my support hand wrist fully heal

I have an update: So it turns out I don't have an overtravel screw in my trigger, there's just a hole there. I tried working the hammer with the trigger fully back and it felt pretty smooth. I did notice a new issue. When I pull the trigger, then rack the slide and gently let the trigger out to reset, if I then gently started to squeeze the trigger again, occasionally (about 1 in 5 times) I hear a click and the sear seems to begin to disengage. The hammer also moves a little. If I release the trigger there, the hammer will fall to half cock with the trigger. If I squeeze the trigger fully, the hammer drops as usual. Any ideas about this?

And to confirm, that's the screw that's in the face of the trigger?

Could you clarify what you mean by working the hammer? So pull the trigger all the way to the rear, and wiggle the hammer? Thanks all for your suggestions so far, will check the various screws in the morning

Today during a match, my gun appeared to fire a second shot immediately after the first. This is obviously a problem. A month ago I did a deep clean of the gun, including taking the sear cage apart to clean it. Is it possible I didn't put it back together correctly, or does it need replacing? After the match I tried to reproduce the problem but wasn't able to, despite putting another 100 rounds through the gun. I'm also not ruling out the chance that I somehow bumpfired it? My SA trigger weight is around 3lb

Yes the more mushy-feeling trigger compared to a crisp SA trigger will take dry firing to get used to.

But 10.4.3 DQs you for a discharge while loading, reloading or unloading. So I don't think you could in good faith argue that you were still engaging targets if you loosed a shot after "if finished ULSC" when you were clearly unloading the gun.

In Hwansik's recoil management video, there's a training technique to help isolate locking the strong hand wrist while keeping the fingers relaxed for trigger manipulation. I'll try to explain it as best as possible but it's better if you watch it. Hold your strong hand out like you're going to shake someone's hand. With your weak hand, try to rock the strong hand up and down while holding it at the wrist. If your wrist is locked correctly, you won't be able to rock the strong hand. To check that your fingers are relaxed, you can just feel the muscles in the strong hand. They should be soft and not hard.

Yep you absolutely should be dry firing with the same grip as you would in live fire, because you'll get a nasty surprise when that recoil happens and the gun starts bouncing around in your hand.