Rear Sight Use
 

How do you guys aim with your "iron" sights? I've increasingly found it easier when plinking to just use my front pistol sight and ignore the rear one completely. I've read somewhere that real steel marksmen don't close their eyes or something, but I find it extremely difficult to focus on the target if I don't and use both sights, so I just use the front sight.

I always aim down both ironsights with both eyes open, rifle or pistol.

Most people have a dominant eye. mine is my right.

I aim with both eyes open, but focus with my dominant eye. With enough practice, you dominant eye will take over the angles as soon as you shoulder the rifle.

Itll come to you with time

Your ICS Sig has an open sight notch on your rear sight. Makes it much easier for you. Keep practicing the transition between normal sight to your dominant eye.

To be as accurate as possible the focus must always be 100% front sight. Pistol, rifle, anything with irons.

You start to change focus when you trade accuracy for speed or situational awareness.

-Grant

Line up your rear sight with your front sight. Then your focus should be on the front sight. For maximum accuracy you rear sight and target should be blurry while you focus on the front sight post.

I'm weird, my left is dominant but im right handed. Makes aiming weird kinda sometimes.

Same here. Because of that with iron sights, I have to one eye it. If I switch to my left arm, then I can keep two eyes open.

Right hand/Left eye isn't that unusual. I"m the same way. I shoot pistol with the Quell system and rifle with both eyes open except for precison shooting with irons or a magnified optic.

As long as you practice, practice, practice you can make just about anything work.

Because of my extremely horrible vision, if I try doing both eyes I get dizzy and cross-eyed. Advice?

Practice, your eyes are muscles that can be trained.

Thanks man. Will do

I though I was the only one shooting pistols that way...

Except that I shoot both eyes open with magnified optics up to 6x...


OP: It just takes practice. I am sure you can find some videos on youtube and some training online. Just got to try again and again. When I use Irons, I usually focus on my target, then align the sights and shift focus towards my front sight. It lets you align the sights while shifting focus so you don't have to keep re-checking that you are correctly on target. Kinda hard to describe, but it works.

One way to develop the ability to focus one eye at xx range and one at yy, and to be able to quickly shift your focus is those magic eye pictures; you need to have your eyes focused at 2 separate distances to see the stereogram.

I can look at one of those and pick out the detail in a couple seconds as I shift focus with one eye and imagine I'm going back and forth between the target and sights.

You could try the "Firebirds Method" to train your eye.

I wonder if anyone else here saw that movie :D

I put some glow paint on both sights and it behaves more or less like a red dot sight. very useful for night/dark games when batteries are out