TRAINING SIGHTS
Private Military Contractor International|June 2020
When learning the basics of firearms training, two key fundamentals of shooting any firearm are sight alignment and sight picture. Sight alignment is defined as the relation of the front sight to the rear sight in line with your eyesight in order to shoot straight at your intended target. Optimally, your alignment will have equal height across the top plane of the sights and equal spacing of light on each side of the front sight when looking through the rear. Sight picture is commonly defined as the relation of sight alignment with the intended target. -TS-
TRAINING SIGHTS

For those who may not know, aside from being a gun writer, I am a firearms instructor and training counselor as part of the Swanson Training Group. Not only is my job to find the best way to demonstrate these key fundamentals to students but also to perspective instructors on how they can teach these fundamentals to their future students as well. While the NRA and USCCA do a great job with fancy animated PowerPoint programs, they lack two important aspects. The first being the ability to the students to come and physically demonstrate what they have learned without using a firearm. The second is the lack of being able to reference the PowerPoint on the range during live fire exercises to clearly illustrate what the student is seeing or doing wrong.

Many instructors either use the index finger and “V” of the opposite hand index finger and middle finger as a field expedient or a rudimentary sketch on the paper target that harkens back to the days of cave painting communication. For me, this all changed when I came across a product online known as Training Sights. These appeared to be clear plastic cards with common front and rear sights imprinted on them. Immediately my minded began to whirl over the advantages something like this could hold so I reached out to the company immediately. The next day, the company owner, Bob Lyons called me to discuss their product.

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