Have you ever shot your gun with your eyes closed?

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With their eyes closed

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I have no doubt.

The MD qual is so easy Iā€™ve assumed I could shoot it with my eyes closed. Maybe next time Iā€™ll try it. They let you reshoot it once if you fail, so nothing to lose trying.

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Thatā€™s the funniest thing Iā€™ve heard all day and I needed that laugh! (But totally believable as well.)

The sad thing is that some of the targets for the classes I have taken for my permit have looked like someone thew a handful of gravel at the target.

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Never shot with my eyes closed. Iā€™ll try this with my dry fires first. Then maybe at the rage. This might have some merit to it.

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Snap caps, jusā€™ sayinā€™.

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Solution: Glue it to the Slide next time! (There fixed it! :roll_eyes:)

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We use an empty casing,

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I was hoping you would put in your 2 cents worth on this topic. You were the first one I even heard about shooting with your eyes closed. When I heard Jerry talking about it I felt as though there has to be merit to it, not discounting you personally but it just added to the fact.
Thank you for your assist here!

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Because SIRT doesnā€™t have any moving parts, so no muzzle rise and dip, no recoilā€¦ You just stand and move your fingerā€¦ good test for your stability without reference pointā€¦
You can test gun recovery and grip only with live fire.

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Thanks for bringing this topic to this Community.

My learning philosophy is very simple ( for me)ā€¦ Challenge yourself to the moment your skills start failing apart. If something is easy I make it harder to execute. I know how to shoot with eyes opened so I train with eyes closed. My carry handgun has 4 lb trigger so I train with handgun with 6 lb trigger, I hit small Target standing on two feet, so I shoot the same Target from any other position I can imagine (never tried to do this standing on my headā€¦yet :joy: )
Once I feel okay in extreme conditions I know I will be more than okay in normal conditions.:

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If you turn the casing over and straddle the front sight itā€™s easier.

Just sayinā€™ :rofl:

I use a dime. Miserable to try it on a Glock front sight post though. Too small.

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Did you try SuperGlue? :wink:

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standing it upright on its edgešŸ˜€

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This is actually how I was able to improve my aim. I would line up my sights and get a feel for where my the angle of my wrists and arms were. Then Iā€™d close my eyes and go through this movement, opening them to see if I was still in alignment. I do this frequently as a part of my training and Iā€™m rarely off target when I aim from any angle. Iā€™m also working on shooting from the hip with the same drill which is helpful for close proximity encounters.

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I didnā€™t want to bragā€¦ :rofl:

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This place is full of great ideas! Why didnā€™t I think of that!

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:grin:
You didnā€™t think about it, becauseā€¦ you didnā€™t think about it ā€¦ :joy:

Usually such ideas come after observation of our surroundings, other people, animals.
It always amazed me how blind people can still ā€œseeā€ā€¦ even they actually cannot see. If you try to do your everyday tasks with closed eyes you quickly find out itā€™s not very problematic, because your other senses take over your vision. Our eyes are the best communication between brain and environment, so once you start seeing again everything becomes much easier to execute - you feel more, itā€™s still engraved in your brain what you learned but additionally you can see that feeling (and confirm it).

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My front sight is a shark fin. This does not work for me.

Phenomenal focus and control you have, Will.

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The first thing I do when I buy a Glock Pistol is replace the front sight. Makes balancing coins much easier:)

My SIRT pistol has a Glock style front sight that is very hard to get a coin to balance on and I just learned that it is just about impossible for me to balance a cartridge on since the primer and pocket donā€™t provide a flat enough surface. I eventually can get the coins to balance though even with my shaky hands. Though usually after 3 or 4 trigger pulls the light weight coins shift enough that they fall off on the fourth or fifth trigger break.

I donā€™t know how many shots I could do in a row on my Glock pistol with the larger night site. My slide racking isnā€™t smooth enough to keep the coins from falling off between shots:(

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