Comments on: The Eyes Have It: Training with Iron Sights and Optics – Part 1 https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/training-and-technique/the-eyes-have-it-training-with-iron-sights-and-optics-part-1/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:17:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: .40 cal Booger https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/training-and-technique/the-eyes-have-it-training-with-iron-sights-and-optics-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-133762 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:02:11 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=31804#comment-133762 In reply to .40 cal Booger.

Overall, an excellent ‘teaching’ article Paul, Thank You.

]]> By: .40 cal Booger https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/training-and-technique/the-eyes-have-it-training-with-iron-sights-and-optics-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-133755 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:35:10 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=31804#comment-133755 “the rear and front sights are located on two different planes and only one can be in focus at a time.”

I know what you were trying to say, but actually they are located on the same (geometric) plane (axis) just at different spots on the same plane when aiming – this is called coplanar.

We we align gun sights with our eyes we are establishing three points on the same plane (mounted iron gun sights, front-rear are always physically and geometrically in the same plane)

Three distinct (existing) points located on the same plane are referred to as coplanar. Any three distinct (existing) points on the same (geometric) plane (axis) are always coplanar, in this case (‘aiming’) the three distinct points are eyes – rear sight – front sight – but for aiming we want focus on the front sight, but because we focus on the front sight does not mean the rear sight is not in the same plane.

]]> By: .40 cal Booger https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/training-and-technique/the-eyes-have-it-training-with-iron-sights-and-optics-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-133745 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:37:13 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=31804#comment-133745 “ ‘But, I need the three dots to line up my sights,’ one of you just said. No, you don’t. First, it’s impossible for human eyes to focus on the rear and front sights at the same time. That means you’ll be shifting your foveal vision from front to rear to front again. That will tremendously increase the amount of time it takes you to make an accurate shot. ”

Exactly!

For people I help out, I’ve been telling people that for years for their defensive shooting wants…after working on the draw, grip, and stance I start them out with a basic “You don’t need to line up the dots. Grip gun properly, stance, align gun pointed at bad guy and in line with your eyes, focus on the front sight, let the rear sight be blurry and out of focus. Do not try to focus on both front and rear sights because you can’t, focus on just the front sight. Your natural vision capability will cause you to center that front sight in the opening of the rear sight. Squeeze trigger, put bullets in bad guy.” – and then refine from there.

This is not some new thing. Its what I learned as a child staring at age 5, its what my mom taught the students who took her classes. And in today’s world with all the various sights and gimmicks for them, for such a simple thing to do its is one of the most difficult things for some new gun people to understand after they have paid money for iron sights that promise to help them be ‘accurate’ because someone on the internet said ‘line up the dots’.

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