Navy Seal Shooting?
So I've been looking at all kinds of stuff online, and naturally it all disagrees with itself (which is weird, because if it's on the Internet, it's automatically true! So many different absolute truths out there...crazy...)
One thing I've found is an ex-Navy Seal named Chris Sajnog who wrote a book and huge series of videos called "How to Shoot Like a Navy Seal." I've only breezed through his videos, but it seems his entire practice is about overriding natural responses through deliberate, intensive retraining of your brain to focus INTENTLY (he loves that word) on the front sight, so that eventually your brain no longer regards the ghosted images seen by the non-dominant eye. I'm not about to question the wisdom of Navy Seals nor their shooting accuracy.
Is anyone familiar with him or his book, or his training school?
But then I find videos of guys who are ringing steel at 75 yards using guns with no sights on them at all.
So I've been practicing and experimenting, which my first instructor said never to do because I'll confuse myself and lose my skill. Anyways, the effectiveness of various techniques seems to vary with distance. At super short distances, just aiming the gun somewhere in the vicinity of a target is sufficient. In fact under 5' the advice is to not extend the gun all the way because you risk having it knocked from your hands. Out to about 25' I seem to have little difficulty picking up the front sight when focusing on the target with both eyes--the front sight is blurry but still clear enough to see where it's pointed, and I can align it reasonably well between the rear sights. My second gun has XS Big Dot on it and I find that much easier to align with this method--and I think that's what it's designed for.
Beyond that distance, there's this weird middle zone where I seem to focus at some nebulous area that's really neither the front sight nor the target, but it allows me to see both well enough to still make a reasonably accurate shot. Of course my instinct is to fall back on one-eyed shooting, which becomes far more accurate. But I've also spent a year practicing that exclusively.
One thing I've learned is that focusing on the front sight with both eyes looks to require the most retraining for me. Everything gets wonky and I can easily miss the entire cardboard target. Perhaps the Navy Seal's method really is the best, but if I'm able to shoot well with other methods, is there a point to investing the time required to retrain my brain to use his method?
One thing I've decided is that I need to be able to shoot with both eyes open, regardless of method. I've been startled and surprised often enough to know that my focus automatically locks onto whatever may be a threat, and I don't want to lose half my field of view by forcing one eye closed.
So I've been looking at all kinds of stuff online, and naturally it all disagrees with itself (which is weird, because if it's on the Internet, it's automatically true! So many different absolute truths out there...crazy...)
One thing I've found is an ex-Navy Seal named Chris Sajnog who wrote a book and huge series of videos called "How to Shoot Like a Navy Seal." I've only breezed through his videos, but it seems his entire practice is about overriding natural responses through deliberate, intensive retraining of your brain to focus INTENTLY (he loves that word) on the front sight, so that eventually your brain no longer regards the ghosted images seen by the non-dominant eye. I'm not about to question the wisdom of Navy Seals nor their shooting accuracy.
Is anyone familiar with him or his book, or his training school?
But then I find videos of guys who are ringing steel at 75 yards using guns with no sights on them at all.
So I've been practicing and experimenting, which my first instructor said never to do because I'll confuse myself and lose my skill. Anyways, the effectiveness of various techniques seems to vary with distance. At super short distances, just aiming the gun somewhere in the vicinity of a target is sufficient. In fact under 5' the advice is to not extend the gun all the way because you risk having it knocked from your hands. Out to about 25' I seem to have little difficulty picking up the front sight when focusing on the target with both eyes--the front sight is blurry but still clear enough to see where it's pointed, and I can align it reasonably well between the rear sights. My second gun has XS Big Dot on it and I find that much easier to align with this method--and I think that's what it's designed for.
Beyond that distance, there's this weird middle zone where I seem to focus at some nebulous area that's really neither the front sight nor the target, but it allows me to see both well enough to still make a reasonably accurate shot. Of course my instinct is to fall back on one-eyed shooting, which becomes far more accurate. But I've also spent a year practicing that exclusively.
One thing I've learned is that focusing on the front sight with both eyes looks to require the most retraining for me. Everything gets wonky and I can easily miss the entire cardboard target. Perhaps the Navy Seal's method really is the best, but if I'm able to shoot well with other methods, is there a point to investing the time required to retrain my brain to use his method?
One thing I've decided is that I need to be able to shoot with both eyes open, regardless of method. I've been startled and surprised often enough to know that my focus automatically locks onto whatever may be a threat, and I don't want to lose half my field of view by forcing one eye closed.