Equal Height, Equal Light: Getting Your Pistol Sights On Target The Right Way

By NRAHQ

Note: This article was originally posted on NRA Blog.

USA -(Ammoland.com)- Andy Lander is an NRA Training Counselor Program Coordinator in NRA’s Education and Training Division. A graduate of Virginia Military Institute, Andy has been a competitive shooter since 1996, competing in NCAA smallbore rifle. Now, as a training counselor, he’s aided as a technical advisor for firearms training videos and television programs, contributed to firearms training books and lesson plans, trained actors, professional athletes and dignitaries, and has certified thousands of firearms instructors and instructor trainers in the NRA Training Programs.

If Hollywood icon Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Hartman was teaching bumbling recruit Leonard “Private Pyle” Lawrence how to aim a pistol in the Stanley Kubrick cult classic Full Metal Jacket, I can only imagine it would sound something like this (sans more colorful language):

“Knife edge across the top with equal height and equal light on both sides, Pyle! Equal height, equal light!”

My goal here is to teach beginners how to properly aim a pistol (and correct some errors committed by the more experienced.) Before we get into the tactics, …Read the Rest

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