Posted May 2, 2016 2:00 pm by Comments

By gunwriter If you are faced with a threat, be it a bad guy wanting to kill you or a brown bear wanting to eat you, you will look at it. Your eyes will focus on that threat and if you want to shoot at it, you will struggle to switch your focus to the front sight. We train to shoot defensive handguns by learning to focus on the front sight because that gives us our best chance for accurate hits. However, as shooters progress in skill they begin to shoot with more of a target focus when the range is close. This might sound like a bad thing but in reality its not. Its faster than focusing on the front sight and as your skill improves its just as effective inside spitting distance. I call this target focus shooting and detail it in my book, Handgun Training for Personal Protection. Target focus shooting is not something you can master on day one. You have to build your skills the old fashion way and then it begins to come naturally. Once you realize you are gravitating to that type of shooting at close distance you can work to improve it but you …Read the Rest

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