Sight alignment, sight picture

Knowing your gun is important to accuracy. Having a proper sight alignment and sight picture is part of that. Sight alignment is the proper positioning of the front and rear sights, while the sight picture is the placement of those aligned sights onto the target. The next question I have for you is where on the target do you set your sights on?

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Not this, thank you Jerzy for pointing this out. @Jerzees

This depends upon your sights and distance to your target. Best way to see how your gun fires is to use your battle sight and see where you hit the target consistently. This will tell you where your sights are set.

Which sight picture do you use and with what gun? And at what distance?

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Combat for my carry guns. Hunting rifles it depends on the ranges i may encounter

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Depends on the firearm. I can never remember, so the first few shots at the range are a reminder. I wish that they’d set them all the same from the factory.

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@ 2 yards does your EDC gun shoot low?

@7 yards does your EDC gun shoot high?

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All mine are combat sight picture except for my 1911 which is 6 o’clock. Center hold makes no sense to me.
Edit - I said that backwards. My 1911 is center hold, 6 o’clock make no sense to me.

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The book with my Springfield 1911 said 6 O’Clock and from my limited experience 200-300 rounds it seems to work out to about 25 yards…

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Oh, good questions!

I use Combat at self defense distance and tend to use 6 O’Clock at distance.

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@Todd30 your hold pictures are mistaken… :upside_down_face:

Shouldn’t be those like this one? :backhand_index_pointing_down:

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Valid point, I did not catch that.

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RIA 45acp combat from 3 yards to20 yards, CZ 9mm center hold same distances

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To be honest.. I’m too old to iron sights thinking… Red dot in center hold at 10 yards… then you have to know the offset and what bullet you’re shooting.

In my case 6 o’clock hold will be at around 50 - 60 yards.

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I’m getting to this point. Been thinking hard about mounting a red dot on my Beretta.

Currently, combat for HD out to 10 yards. That’s the longest distance I might shoot INSIDE my house.

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