allen-1
NES Member
One of the guys I shoot with/against pretty regularly is better than me. It's just that simple. Adam's faster, moves better, shoots faster and shoots more accurately. He's pretty quiet, but when he talks about shooting, I tend to listen to him.
A couple of months ago, I saw that he had a cover on his dot. He was shooting a G34 with an SRO, just like me. So I asked him what the cover was for. He explained that "occluding" the dot, (making it impossible to see THROUGH the optic), made your brain process things differently. It forces your brain to bring together the two images, target and dot, without actually looking through the sight, which gives you faster acquisition of the target.
Hmmm.
For the last couple of months, I've been dryfiring like that, (with a cover over the forward glass). It took some adaptation, but it started working pretty well after a couple of weeks. I shot a match three weeks ago, with the cover on - and it didn't work as well as I would have liked. Missed a couple of long shots that I shouldn't have.
Went to the internet and did some googling and reading; then decided to try dryfiring and practicing with occlusion, and shooting matches with it unobstructed.
That worked out splendidly this past weekend. I shot a local "outlaw" match and smoked it.
Simple rules for this match, two on paper - anywhere, and steel must fall. VERY serious penalties for misses - 10 seconds per miss. I didn't miss any shots, and I shot very quickly - at least in comparison to my competition at that match.
I'm going to continue dryfire/practice occluded - and unobstructed for matches.
A couple of months ago, I saw that he had a cover on his dot. He was shooting a G34 with an SRO, just like me. So I asked him what the cover was for. He explained that "occluding" the dot, (making it impossible to see THROUGH the optic), made your brain process things differently. It forces your brain to bring together the two images, target and dot, without actually looking through the sight, which gives you faster acquisition of the target.
Hmmm.
For the last couple of months, I've been dryfiring like that, (with a cover over the forward glass). It took some adaptation, but it started working pretty well after a couple of weeks. I shot a match three weeks ago, with the cover on - and it didn't work as well as I would have liked. Missed a couple of long shots that I shouldn't have.
Went to the internet and did some googling and reading; then decided to try dryfiring and practicing with occlusion, and shooting matches with it unobstructed.
That worked out splendidly this past weekend. I shot a local "outlaw" match and smoked it.
Simple rules for this match, two on paper - anywhere, and steel must fall. VERY serious penalties for misses - 10 seconds per miss. I didn't miss any shots, and I shot very quickly - at least in comparison to my competition at that match.
I'm going to continue dryfire/practice occluded - and unobstructed for matches.