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They really interfere with my point shooting.

As you said they are feedback devices but I think also they are current information devices. Feedback for me is in the past but there is some current information there too. I relate that to a shot setup approaching positions and seeing what I need to see to make the shot.

I know somebody is gonna say that's all feedback but I'm trying to separate two parts of technique. Eventually they all come together though.

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What do sights do?

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I was thinking they help you check alignment. You want to align the guns bore with your line of sight to the target.

I went to look up the word align and I especially like the second definition.

Verb:
  1. Place or arrange (things) in a straight line.
  2. Put (things) into correct relative positions.

The sights are indicators to tell you if you have the two things in correct relative positions.

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What do sights do?

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I seem to remember RO'ing you at a local match a few years ago, when you were not shooting a glock, with a gun that did not have any front sight. Did not seem to really matter as you still out shoot almost everybody there.

MDA

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What do sights do?

Lets hear your thoughts...

I was thinking they help you check alignment. You want to align the guns bore with your line of sight to the target.

I went to look up the word align and I especially like the second definition.

Verb:
  1. Place or arrange (things) in a straight line.
  2. Put (things) into correct relative positions.

The sights are indicators to tell you if you have the two things in correct relative positions.

I like that, thinking about sights as a Verb.

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What do sights do?

Lets hear your thoughts...

I seem to remember RO'ing you at a local match a few years ago, when you were not shooting a glock, with a gun that did not have any front sight. Did not seem to really matter as you still out shoot almost everybody there.

MDA

I would have kicked my own ass* if I used sights. (But, exploring other inputs was interesting.)

* - Stole that line from GmanBart

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Sights tell me if what I'm doing is correct. If my sights don't come back to me properly they're trying to tell me something...then I have to figure out what!

Your grip is not nuetral. Try this... Aim the gun at the backstop (no target), perfectly align the sights, close your eyes - remember the total feeling of your grip - and fire the shot. Then open your eyes and see where sights are. Keep doing that until the sight return perfectly aligned.

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Thought provoking topic. Watching the slingshot clip reminded me of a story, maybe a tall one that did the rounds when i was growing up in Wales. We broke our teeth on air rifles, and quickly went down a different avenue to the slingshot guy. We worked out drop charts, windage allowances and mid range trajectories and changed pellets anytime something new came along. I did shoot lots, often firing 500 in a day, but the legend was about a guy with an old diana, not a feinwerkbau or weirauch, it had no sights and the story goes that he used to shoot wood pigeon flying.

The story could be bs, but its remembered because I know its was feasable, and every now and then some intuitive shooting with the pistol confirms that to me.

What are sights for, I wish i knew

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My sights give me tunnel vision, like looking through a knot hole in a wooden fence. In contrast, if I look over the fence and knot hole or sights I can see more but not view an individual item as accurately or clearly.

Why would/do your sights give you tunnel vision. Is it momentary, or extended?

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