Seeing Faster Shooting Faster

[FChen17213]

I know that you can only shoot as accurately and quickly as you can see. Thus, I was wondering if anyone here knew good exercises for tracking your sights and seeing faster, especially under recoil. Obviously shooting a lot of target transition drills can help. However, I was wondering if you guys knew some good dry fire exercises one can do at home daily that can help one see faster.

I thought about just doing a lot of presentations. Also, putting up IPSCs and/or IDPA targets throughout the house and practice snapping the gun from target to target would make sense. Maybe make them smaller since they'll be at much greater distances at a match than in your house. However, I can't think of a good way to simulate or replicate recoil. There probably isn't. As far as recoil management, I can only think of using grippers (Captains of Crush) to get hand strength up in terms of crushing brute force. I know you're not supposed to use a "death grip," but if my 70% grip is equivalent to your death grip strength, my gun is going to shoot flatter and I'm going to recover from recoil faster. Other exercises that may help would be farmer's walk and other such exercises that help with forearm strength? The other thing I was thinking of is that if we aren't consciously clamping down hard with our support hand, sometimes we get lazy and it becomes relaxed. That leads to poorer recoil management, at least for me.

So I guess my main question would be if people knew good dry fire exercises to see faster to help one shoot faster.

[Heavy Metal]

Remember that trick Kyle taught us in November about the support index finger contacting the right side of the bottom portion of the trigger guard?

That was a gold tip for me. My grip seems to flow right if I remember that index trick and it ensures I am applying sufficient tension just by the act of reaching that spot with the end of my index finger.

Whenever I use that technique, my recoil control is noticably better. (I am trying to re-train myself to do it everytime)

I need to take the rest of his advice and put a sliver of grip tape there to help me locate it more quickly.

[FChen17213]

Yes, I think that certainly helps. One thing that I have had a little trouble with is on a timed draw, sometimes I have a bit of a problem getting my support index finger just right in that sweet spot. Also, I had a grip issue. If I get a full 360 grip with my hands, I can get my strong hand in complete good alignment with the pistol. The pistol runs completely in line with my strong arm. The problem with this is that my trigger finger is sacrificed. I can't get as much trigger finger, and "el snatcho" creeps up more. There's less trigger control and it's harder to shoot faster. If I move my strong hand just a bit forward or rotate it a bit forward, I might not get the full 360 "meat sandwich" but I am getting much more trigger finger, hence better trigger control and less el snatcho. Just for me, I think this grip works a tad better for me. It's also easier for me to get my support hand into that index.

[Bearded_Operator]

front sight press... i focus on my front sight, i have the rear sights on my m&p blacked out and it makes tracking the front sight 10x faster...

[VIP3R 237]

Remember that trick Kyle taught us in November about the support index finger contacting the right side of the bottom portion of the trigger guard?

That was a gold tip for me. My grip seems to flow right if I remember that index trick and it ensures I am applying sufficient tension just by the act of reaching that spot with the end of my index finger.

Whenever I use that technique, my recoil control is noticably better. (I am trying to re-train myself to do it everytime)

I need to take the rest of his advice and put a sliver of grip tape there to help me locate it more quickly.

Could you post a picture of this?

[Moltke]

front sight press... i focus on my front sight, i have the rear sights on my m&p blacked out and it makes tracking the front sight 10x faster...

Really.. 10x faster? How slow were you to begin with?

[Bearded_Operator]

Really.. 10x faster? How slow were you to begin with?

Lol

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[Defaultmp3]

Todd Green mentioned a more unorthodox method for better sight tracking would be eye exercises, specifically, the ones that tennis players use to better track the ball in play. One of these exercises is to put some kind of high-viz sticker on a ceiling fan blade, close to the center, and try to track that while laying under it while it's spinning. After you're able to see and track it clearly, move the sticker a bit further out from the center (angular speed stays the same, while tangential speed goes up). Keep doing that until you hit the tip, I guess, and then start over at the middle with a higher speed.

[Heavy Metal]

Could you post a picture of this?

Mabey in a few days.

[theblackknight]

Mabey in a few days.

Pretty sure they mean this Attachment 15917

Instead of this
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For me, the best sight tracking drill is burning rounds into the berm. Then moving to doing bill drills at 7 y. If you can, shooting at night sans a light is great because you cant see the dam target anyways. You have to watch your dots bounce.

I heard someone describe their moment of clarity on sight tracking as not even looking at the sights, just looking above the gun, eyes focused at nothing. They stopped trying and then it happened. Its hard because you cant see thru people's eyes to know what to tell them.

sent from mah gun,using my sights