I'm sorry. I know that a lot of people think that pointing with the finger
is inherently accurate, but I think it's just a bunch of hooey.
darkgael made a good point on the grip angle thread. He pointed out that
free pistols are made such that the barrel is designed to line up with bones
of the arm and thus you can point the barrel like it is your finger.
That's well and good. darkgael had a good point. The rest of what I'm
going to say does not discredit what dargael has said.
For finger pointing to be accurate as aiming with sights, you'd have to have
your arm growing out of your eye. That's the only way pointing your finger
will line up the sights on your pistol.
Try pointing at something, anything. Try it right now. Now look at your
finger. Imagine sights on your finger. Do the sights line up with your eye?
No, the imaginary sights on your finger line up with your shoulder or your
elbow. That would be great if your eyes were on your shoulder.
Now, take a pistol in your hand and aim it with the sights. Now look at
your arms. The hands are tilted. This is required to line up the axis of
the sights with your eyes. You are not pointing your hands like you
would normally point. When pointing naturally, your finger lines up with the
bone in your forearm. With practice you have taught yourself how to point
your pistol such that the sights line up.
Also, this myth about pointing being inherently accurate is just that. I
for one do not have a thunderbolt that shoots out of my finger. I don't
know that pointing is accurate, and neither do the people who swear that
pointing is accurate.
Instinctive shooting such as in cowboy action shooting (shooting from the
hip) takes practice practice practice and in my opinion has nothing to do
with inherent accuracy of finger pointing.
What do you think?
And if you practice enough with a pistol, any pistol, you'll be able to quickly
acquire sight picture. This is practice and has nothing to do with superior
pointability of a pistol. If a pistol doesn't point for you (i.e. takes you longer
to acquire sight picture) you just need more practice with that pistol.
And shooting without at least acquiring flash front sight picture is a recipe
for a quick miss. If you are able to acquire sight picture more or less
quickly with a given pistol, you should only let that fact affect how quickly
you can shoot that pistol and not how accurate you are with that pistol.
If it takes you longer to acquire sight picture, you wait until you have the
sight picture before you shoot, unless you have practiced instinctive shooting
extensively.
Cheers,
Jae
is inherently accurate, but I think it's just a bunch of hooey.
darkgael made a good point on the grip angle thread. He pointed out that
free pistols are made such that the barrel is designed to line up with bones
of the arm and thus you can point the barrel like it is your finger.
That's well and good. darkgael had a good point. The rest of what I'm
going to say does not discredit what dargael has said.
For finger pointing to be accurate as aiming with sights, you'd have to have
your arm growing out of your eye. That's the only way pointing your finger
will line up the sights on your pistol.
Try pointing at something, anything. Try it right now. Now look at your
finger. Imagine sights on your finger. Do the sights line up with your eye?
No, the imaginary sights on your finger line up with your shoulder or your
elbow. That would be great if your eyes were on your shoulder.
Now, take a pistol in your hand and aim it with the sights. Now look at
your arms. The hands are tilted. This is required to line up the axis of
the sights with your eyes. You are not pointing your hands like you
would normally point. When pointing naturally, your finger lines up with the
bone in your forearm. With practice you have taught yourself how to point
your pistol such that the sights line up.
Also, this myth about pointing being inherently accurate is just that. I
for one do not have a thunderbolt that shoots out of my finger. I don't
know that pointing is accurate, and neither do the people who swear that
pointing is accurate.
Instinctive shooting such as in cowboy action shooting (shooting from the
hip) takes practice practice practice and in my opinion has nothing to do
with inherent accuracy of finger pointing.
What do you think?
And if you practice enough with a pistol, any pistol, you'll be able to quickly
acquire sight picture. This is practice and has nothing to do with superior
pointability of a pistol. If a pistol doesn't point for you (i.e. takes you longer
to acquire sight picture) you just need more practice with that pistol.
And shooting without at least acquiring flash front sight picture is a recipe
for a quick miss. If you are able to acquire sight picture more or less
quickly with a given pistol, you should only let that fact affect how quickly
you can shoot that pistol and not how accurate you are with that pistol.
If it takes you longer to acquire sight picture, you wait until you have the
sight picture before you shoot, unless you have practiced instinctive shooting
extensively.
Cheers,
Jae