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B.L.E. · March 10, 2013, 09:01 PM

I was at the TMLRA spring shoot this weekend and my pistol shooting in men's pistol was er, um, disappointing, yes, that's it, disappointing. Mid 80's in my 25 yard targets and 60's at 50 yards. It seemed as if the bullseye in the sights jinxed my ability to hold steady and squeeze the trigger.

So the last day, after I ruined my chances of placing in men's pistol, I entered the 25yd as-issue revolver reentry match a couple of times using my box stock 1860 Colt Army. I knew it shot high so I aimed at the very bottom of the target, not low enough as the first shot was above the 5 ring at the top of the target and a little to the left, so I aimed lower and lower and a little to the right, actually aiming at a spot of ground under and behind the target frame finding an aiming spot on the ground that put the bullets in the bullseye.
So I re-entered with another target remembering my aiming point and shot my best pistol score of the entire shoot, beating out the scores I shot with my custom target pistols with that open top Colt.

I dunno, maybe I learned something. I think that having a non-bullseye aiming point, just a place on the ground that differed very little from the surrounding area allowed me to focus my full attention to sight alignment, and we all know that sight alignment trumps having the front sight perfectly under a bullseye.
It was actually easy to keep the sights aligned as I increased pressure on the trigger until the gun shot when I wasn't worried about the front sight being perfectly under a bullseye.

March 10, 2013, 09:01 PM	#9
B.L.E. Senior Member Join Date: December 20, 2008 Location: Somewhere on the Southern shore of Lake Travis, TX Posts: 2,603	I was at the TMLRA spring shoot this weekend and my pistol shooting in men's pistol was er, um, disappointing, yes, that's it, disappointing. Mid 80's in my 25 yard targets and 60's at 50 yards. It seemed as if the bullseye in the sights jinxed my ability to hold steady and squeeze the trigger. So the last day, after I ruined my chances of placing in men's pistol, I entered the 25yd as-issue revolver reentry match a couple of times using my box stock 1860 Colt Army. I knew it shot high so I aimed at the very bottom of the target, not low enough as the first shot was above the 5 ring at the top of the target and a little to the left, so I aimed lower and lower and a little to the right, actually aiming at a spot of ground under and behind the target frame finding an aiming spot on the ground that put the bullets in the bullseye. So I re-entered with another target remembering my aiming point and shot my best pistol score of the entire shoot, beating out the scores I shot with my custom target pistols with that open top Colt. I dunno, maybe I learned something. I think that having a non-bullseye aiming point, just a place on the ground that differed very little from the surrounding area allowed me to focus my full attention to sight alignment, and we all know that sight alignment trumps having the front sight perfectly under a bullseye. It was actually easy to keep the sights aligned as I increased pressure on the trigger until the gun shot when I wasn't worried about the front sight being perfectly under a bullseye.