Steering the front sight with the trigger...

toddinjax · Post by **toddinjax** » Tue Dec 11, 2012 5:31 pm

Hello all,

I've been reading (re reading) some of Warren Potter's articles in the Hitch Hikers Guide and he mentions "steering the front sight" with the trigger in this essay : http://pilkguns.com/c4.shtml Sounds like an interesting concept. It also for some reason struck me as a concept that might provoke a few differing opinions on TT. What say you?

rmca · Post by **rmca** » Tue Dec 11, 2012 7:01 pm

I believe you are referring to this paragraph:

"The secret is to combine the focus on a tight sight formation with a positive finger movement pulling straight back on the trigger so that the shot breaks within a reasonable time frame. I find it helpful to have a mental image of using the trigger shoe as a means of steering the front sight, and guiding it as I pull it straight back through the “goal posts” of the rear sight. I know other shooters use similar mind games. Whatever works. The point being they make a positive decision to produce the shot. They become part of the action, they participate, instead of sitting back in the bleachers hoping the home team will do well."

He does't mean it literally...

toddinjax · Post by **toddinjax** » Tue Dec 11, 2012 7:22 pm

Yeah, I get that it's a "mind game", but of course a poor trigger pull will put the front post and the pellet off course, so there's a certain amount of "reality" in there too.

rmca · Post by **rmca** » Tue Dec 11, 2012 7:42 pm

Then I didn't understood what you were asking...

What did you thought when you read it?
"I find it helpful to have a mental image of using the trigger shoe as a means of steering the front sight"

Isabel1130 · Post by **Isabel1130** » Tue Dec 11, 2012 7:48 pm

Simple overholding for me, usually yields no worse than an 8 or a scratch nine. If my triggering is poor, God knows, where the shot is going to end up, probably a seven or worse.
I get my best results when I dry fire enough to get my confidence up. Some days take more shots than others to get my trigger finger moving correctly.

What Warren is describing is an "active" shot process rather than a static one. There are a lot of great articles on the Pilkington web site.

I find this one, very helpful also.

http://www.pilkguns.com/anatoli.shtml