Post by bradshaw on Dec 21, 2019 10:55:33 GMT -5
Groo here
“.... as few people use sights at defensive distances, we are bred to look at the problem......
No sights is not bad....”
----Groo
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Groo.... “we are bred to look at the problem....”
Let out of the chair on first reading this. Reading to mean “we are trained to look at the problem.” INSTINCT sucks our full attention to immediate threat. When a robber sees your eye dart from the knife or gun in his hand to his eyes and reacts instantly this is not your first encounter, you see at the same time this is not his first night on the job. Muggers and most robbers are ambush predators and don’t like it when the element of surprise is not absolutely theirs. A synonym for surprise is CONTROL.
This is where sights on a pistol come in. The marksman sees a sight picture is his or her mind. Whether or not it visually registers, the mind goes for it. Short of that a draw from the leather bears the same ingredient of pointing the pistol with our anatomy. The professional assailant always prefers a weak target.
Substances complicate matters. A thug wound on crack may have no fear at all, or show no intelligent effect. Intelligence should exert some inhibiting effect on stupidity. In an environ where citizens you meet have either been robbed or resisted, those who resist come out better. Gratuitous violence after a successful robbery is as lethal as it gets.
I knew an exuberant 18 year old who handed over the money and whose murderer will not leave Angola alive.
A sight picture is a mental picture of composure under stress. As long at it’s there, even if you don’t “see” it. This mental picture informs fast draw. Lessons of hunting & lessons of marksmanship inform survival. Eye on Sight, Mind on Target.
To see the threat is instinct.
To see the sight is learned.
David Bradshaw