@ Larry 130, I saw those sights on gun TV a cpl weeks ago, I’ve got fiber optic sights on a PMR 30 and on a S&W Airlite but not quite like those. On one of the Outdoor Channels wendsday night gun shows ( what I call gun TV) they had some that actually lit up when they were lined up are those them? I can’t read a bunch of posts my eyes can’t take it incase it’s in there somewhere
The sights present white in the back and red in front. When aligned properly you only see a neon green dot.
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@Larry130 , yea that was it, very cool and they said they been using them on shotguns for a long time. No one told me but I don’t mess with handgun sights much because I’m pretty much a rifle guy and I recon scopes are my bag. I normally just use whatever sights my handguns come with, I just feel if I ever have to use whatever handgun I’m carrying at the time I’ll just whip it out and blast whatever I have to I don’t get real fancy with it and don’t feel I need to ya know? Most of that bull makes me laugh anyway especially the holding the gun up against your chest and turning to the right pushing it out and firing and pushing it back against your chest again and looking to the left and pushing it forward and firing and going back up against yourself again and looking right and left OMG lol. I look at it like on one of the Raiders of the Lost Ark’ movies when this fool does all the dancing around and Indy just pulls out his gun and plugs him. Sorry this was so long and drawn out man.
No worries!
“Sight alignment” is the relationship between the front and rear sights. " Sight picture" is the relationship the front sight, rear sight, and where you want the bullet to go.
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@Larry130 ,I do wanna get some of the fiber optic jobs shown and the ones you was talking about, those would be great for the EDC or I’d like to have them on a few of my handguns, beats the bulbous red dot sights on a concealable handgun for me. I don’t or can’t conceal well anymore because after I got sirosis of the f*****g liver I literally keep like 25 to 30 lbs of fluid in me , a bad liver along with wrecking everything else in your body is a fluid factory and although I take 200+ mags of diuretics a day it’s constant and I can’t carry IWB anymore and gotta go with any little .380 I can slide in a pocket wich is fine because I can make the 9 MM Kurtz work very well.
That is a definition of sight picture.
Sight alignment doesn’t include target. You align bore axis / firearm / sights to your eyes.
But to properly align those you need 2 points of reference.
These can be: front and rear sights, front and back of slide, front and back of rifle’s upper. All these are only to have a straight line vision, parallel to your bore / barrel.
Once you add target to that view it becomes sight picture .
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I get what you’re saying. I have come to understand that guess both saying the same thing. I guess I just have it fixed in my head in a different way but were’ both coming to the same conclusion.
See? That’s why it’s good to talk about these things. I learn stuff.
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I think a lot of stuff is over played, alignment, picture it’s called AIMING lol! Everything don’t have to be real scientific. I guess I learned to shoot before a lot of the scientific crap was thought up by some egghead . Lol. Ohh Yeaaa I’m sure I’ll hear about this one. Lol!
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Sometimes shooters are calling everything sight alignment… because everything is aligned.
However during learning process it’s so important to differ sight alignment from sight picture.
Depending on target / threat distance you may need both - sight alignment and sight picture, or just one - sight picture and you still will be accurate.
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I just aim and shoot taking into consideration of how far away the target is and the size of it but I learn ballistics of the rounds I shoot so I allow for bullitt drop and weight of said projectile ( according to my phone I guess I can’t spell bullitt right) and even barrel length if I’m using a rifle wich is my true forte but I seem to do well. I know that since I’ve had to move right in the middle of town there has been times that I haven’t shot in two years and first shot straight thru the ten ring, I’ve been shooting a long time.
Also I learned by my friends who were good shooters and were all much older than me and were in the military the number one thing someone has to overcome and that is flinching and trigger pull. We would practice with snap caps and before that either spent brass or pencils with new erasers on them because we figured the firing pin was at least hitting something, wether we were right or not IDK lol. But you’d be amazed how most semi-autos can shoot a sharpened pencil and stick it right in dry wall lol!
Shoot in the basement in phone books duct taped together, very few handgun rounds would go through those things back in the late 70s
I was taught… USMC… your focus should be on the front sight…
yes everything else should be sorta included but the front sight is supposedly the most important…
alignment as many have pointed out and all yes… but… focus should be on the front sight…
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And that’s correct.
The problem starts with speed and accuracy, when both needs to be achieved, especially engaging multiple targets.
Your focus is always on target… until you align the sights (sight alignment) , then when your front sight is somehow on the target (sight picture), you switch focus to front sight.
And that focus switching, for me, was the reason to start using red dot.
With red dot, I only focus on target, so having one step less, I’m able to achieve my goal faster.
Multiple targets? No problem, you look, then bring your dot, once dot is on target (sight picture) you press the trigger. Much faster and less fatigue for eyes.
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Yeah, she will be singing and dancing because she has a new friend to go get hair, nails and feet done with. All with MY credit card might I add…
i need to go sweep the garage. I think I have a Coleman space heater somewhere in here… 
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If it gets you out of the garage I see it as a win-win.
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Thank you all for the welcome. Be safe out here and enjoy life and love.
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Yea tho I walk thru the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am with my 1911 and my 870. And the Lord safety “THIS IS GOOD”!
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