Sight Alignment

[PWC]

Which is easier to "call your shot"............6 O'clock hold or center hold?

Frame hold completely covers target face and line of white is too hard to be consistent.

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[ed skeels]

What are you shooting?
Ed

[PWC]

hi-power

[CINDERS]

Bit like cars really so many models to chose from just like sight pictures, the 6 hold is most favoured of all thats good when you have a black bulls eye and not an orange/yellow coloured Fig - 12.
When I was shooting h/guns we focused on the sights and fuzzed the bull and held center as you could still get enough clarity to punch centers, but a rifle with iron sights trying to fuzz the black at 700-800m would be most difficult personally the 6 o'clock works for me as I find it easier to put the black dot on top of the foresight.

It is an individual thing to do and you need range time to find what suits your style or the course of fire on the Fig-12's I always go center mass and on a normal target the 6 hold once you get it sorted always keep detailed notes on the sight settings the weather and conditions that way you can have a ready reckoner I run an excell spread sheet at home but also have a note book with me.

[PWC]

Thank you Cinders, I have always used 6 O'clock, but after reading AMU's book, I was wondering about the center hold. I always 'fuzz' the bull (great term; a sentence of explanation summed up in one word) but was wondering about the center hold all the time, not just during weather conditions.

FWIW, all responses from comp shooters favored the 6 O'clock hold. As you say' I'll just keep notes and check them against each other.

[ed skeels]

Center mass sighting doesn't change vertically with sun effects. Light's up, sights up, six o'clock hold. You will still get right, center, left effects horizontally regardless depending on how the sun is effecting the black.
Use a wide front blade to "fill up" the sight picture.
Hope this help's.
Regards
Ed

[Paul S.]

Do you mean a Browning Hi-Power pistol AKA 'Browning 9 mm Pistol, L9A1'? If so, then if memory serves, back in the day it was centre hold within 25 m and 6 o'clock hold beyond.

Althoug, it could have been the other way round. ...





I better look that up.




Now, where did I put those old infantry training pamphlets ...

[Paul S.]

Hmmm, Half right.

'Manual of Land Warfare, Part Two, Infantry Training, Volume 4, Pamplet No. 2, The Self-loading Pistol 9 mm L9A1'

Chapter 3 Paragraph 304 - '... acceptable results are achieved by aiming centrally at ranges up to 25 m. At ranges between 25 m and 50 m, the point of aim should be the top of the target.'