Rear Sight Use

[Slow]

If you don't know which eye is your dominant eye...make a triangle with your hands infront of you. Close each eye one at a time and for which eye the triangle does not move, that would be your dominant eye.

[Coresair]

I've searched google for videos and or images to understand what the heck the Quell System is about, does somebody point me to some links? I read a lot about it but I'm a very visual person and I really understand better when I see something!

thank you in advance, anyone!

[Danke]

Originally Posted by Coresair

I've searched google for videos and or images to understand what the heck the Quell System is about, does somebody point me to some links? I read a lot about it but I'm a very visual person and I really understand better when I see something!

thank you in advance, anyone!

You want to be in a Weaver stance but have some float in your elbows. Keep both eyes open, pistol is in your right hand and use your left eye to line up the sights on target.

[Coresair]

Originally Posted by Danke

You want to be in a Weaver stance but have some float in your elbows. Keep both eyes open, pistol is in your right hand and use your left eye to line up the sights on target.

I know I'm quoting some magpul "science" here but wouldn't some float decrease your ability to control recoil with a real firearm? I'm just curious.

edit : I don't really have my left eye/right handed problem with my pistol, I usually line up both front and rear but focus on the front to shoot.

[Danke]

The float lets you keep the pistol (or other weapon) on target as you move. Lock up you joints and you're all over the map.

Try it sometime with a laser, light up the target and run towards while you keep the sights on it.

So that is the first part of the system, the Quell stance. More may follow. They guy who put this out there was either Chuck Norris and Chris Costa rolled into one or the original mall ninja. Regardless for cross dominant shooters the stance is great!

[TaroBear]

From what I've read here, however it still seems like the front sight is the most important, and if need be I could ignore the rear sight.

[Cortex]

I don't think you understand how sights work, you need both.

[slad3d]

Correct aiming consist of having a imaginary line of aim that crosses 4 points:
-your eye
-rear sight aperture
-front sight or front aiming post of optical sight
-point of aim on target.

On pistol, it is easier to focus on the front sight because the distance between the front and rear is so short that the line of aim is not distorted too much.

On the other hand, if you focus on the front sight of a rifle only, the line of aim go bye bye.

[TaroBear]

So I use the rear sight to make sure I can keep that line aligned properly, then?

[Brian McIlmoyle]

Originally Posted by TaroBear

So I use the rear sight to make sure I can keep that line aligned properly, then?

a gun is a tube.. you have to line up the whole tube with the target not just the front end of it.

for close targets, if your shooting posture is practiced and you have a clear understanding of your natural point of aim you can acquire and hit targets using the foresight only.. or even just looking over both sights.

For targets farther away you need both the fore and rear sights aligned to have an expectation of hitting.

Spend some time trying to Chrony people 's guns and you will soon find out that most players have no idea where their gun is shooting, and have little understanding of even the basic principles of aiming.

[Danke]

Originally Posted by Brian McIlmoyle

Spend some time trying to Chrony people 's guns.

Hold it straight and level,

no level,

no that's not level,

no lower the butt,

no the back end,

no the BB has to pass through the middle of the hole,

look just give it to me and watch.

[Brian McIlmoyle]

I've seen people shooting the ground 10 feet in front of themselves .. while yelling at a person 50 feet away for not taking their hits.

I expect this person was "aiming" with their front sight only... it seems many people think the bb goes in a straight line from the muzzle to their target.

Rather than a straight line from the chamber to the Muzzle .. and then to whatever is in line with that.

[Danke]

I think the "ignore your sight" vibe comes from a bit of a misunderstanding.

What you want to do is shoot so much that things like sight picture, grip, breathing, trigger control, and the rest become part of your subconscious and the voice in your head is now telling you about more urgent matters like someone who may be about to shoot you.

Anytime you're doing instinctive or snap, or point shooting it's not a casual hacking around dump your mag kind of gig. When you shoot you want the first shot to hit.

The only way to get good at shooting is to shoot a lot and to shoot every day. Fortunately with airsoft that is more possible than with other disciplines. Ammo and other consumables are cheap and places to practice safely are easy to find on the most part.

Brian here's a good thing I ran across about the call your hits folks. http://www.ukairsoftzone.co.uk/forum...ing-your-hits/

[Grudge]

Originally Posted by Danke

Brian here's a good thing I ran across about the call your hits folks. http://www.ukairsoftzone.co.uk/forum...ing-your-hits/

Nice, I think there is also the adrenaline factor, your blood is pounding in your ears and the BB hits some webbing. You don't feel it and may not hear it.

I just shoot again.

[Kozzie]

I understand using iron sights to shoot but when you use a red dot/holo sight do you have to line the dot up with the front sight?