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    Gun Digest’s Revolver & Pistol Sights for Concealed Carry eShort: Laser sights for pistols & effective sight pictures for revolver shooting.
    Gun Digest’s Revolver & Pistol Sights for Concealed Carry eShort: Laser sights for pistols & effective sight pictures for revolver shooting.
    Gun Digest’s Revolver & Pistol Sights for Concealed Carry eShort: Laser sights for pistols & effective sight pictures for revolver shooting.
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    Gun Digest’s Revolver & Pistol Sights for Concealed Carry eShort: Laser sights for pistols & effective sight pictures for revolver shooting.

    By Grant Cunningham

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    In this excerpt from the Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Grant Cunningham reveals his picks for the best revolver sights and sighting techniques for fast, accurate pistol shooting.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGun Digest Books
    Release dateJul 1, 2012
    ISBN9781440233937
    Gun Digest’s Revolver & Pistol Sights for Concealed Carry eShort: Laser sights for pistols & effective sight pictures for revolver shooting.
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    Grant Cunningham

    Grant Cunningham is a renowned self-defense author, teacher, and internationally known gunsmith (retired). He's the author of The Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Shooter's Guide to Handguns, Defensive Pistol Fundamentals, and Handgun Training: Practice Drills for Defensive Shooting, and has written articles on shooting, self-defense, training and teaching for many magazines, shooting websites and his blog at grantcunningham.com.

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      Gun Digest’s Revolver & Pistol Sights for Concealed Carry eShort - Grant Cunningham

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      Concealed Carry: Revolver & Pistol Sights

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      Front and rear sights properly aligned.

      If you’ve been shooting for more than about five minutes, you’ve no doubt heard all kinds of opinions about sights and what constitutes a good sight picture. For what is a simple concept there sure are a lot of misconceptions.

      In my early days of handgun shooting I was bothered by the almost magical properties attributed to the sight picture. All one had to do, intoned instructor after instructor, was to focus on the sight picture and everything would magically take care of itself. Focus on the front sight! was the repeated mantra, and the prescription was always to dry fire while focusing on the front sight.

      Sometimes that works. Sometimes it doesn’t. As it turns out there is more than one way to aim a revolver, and it’s your job to pick the way most appropriate to your goal. What is appropriate in a formal target shooting contest may not be appropriate to all other types of handgunning, yet the front sight mantra is still sold as gospel for everything.

      As I’ve aged and become more wise (or at least learned a few tricks), I’ve been moving away from talking about sights and sight picture, at least in the traditional way these terms are used. Take this simple observation to heart: hitting your target requires nothing more than aligning the barrel of your revolver on that target, and keeping it aligned until the bullet has left the bore.

      Of course it’s not necessarily easy to do that, and the more demanding the target (the more precision needed) the more careful you need to be in your alignment. At very close distances, with very forgiving targets, just bringing the gun into and parallel with our line of vision is often enough to get a decent hit. If the target is smaller or further away, we need more precision alignment. When we need precision, we use alignment guides – commonly called sights.

      Sights are nothing more than precision alignment guides. That’s it, and there’s nothing magical about them. They allow us to align our gun more precisely than we could without them. We can use them to get relatively coarse alignment, though better than simply having the gun in our line of vision, and as the targets get more demanding we can use them more carefully. The more carefully we use the alignment guides, the more precise our shots become.

      There are two aspects to using these

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