White Out For Gun Sights

Ox here with a little 2 cent trick with you that may very well completely change how well you shoot.It’s called a “Gip”.I first learned about the Gip from the creator, Matt Seibertformer General Manager of Colonel Cooper’s Gunsite Academy and creator of the.Matt’s created several things for the firearms industry that many people take for granted today.Ever see tritium night sights? They were created when a friend of Matt’s told him he’d just gotten stuck with a shipping container from China full of teddy bears with glow-in-the-dark eyes. Matt took a couple of the bears, started drilling holes in sights, putting tritium vials in the holes & experimenting with adhesives until he found the right one, and the rest is history.Ever see a self-healing polymer target or self-healing polymer poppers for use in indoor ranges?

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Again, guess who came up with the chemical combination to make it work and patented it more than 20 years ago?Putting a scratch or mark on the front sight is something that’s been a secret of champion bull’s-eye pistol shooters for decades and Retired Navy SEAL, Larry Yatch introduced it to the Naval Academy Combat Pistol Team when he was a Midshipman, but Matt and Sherrie Seibert coined the phrase “Gip” and unlocked the potential of this little jewel and they’re the reason why military and tactical law enforcement units across the country use it today.So, what is the Gip? The “Gip” on my GlockIt’s a scratch, imperfection, or mark on the front sight that is approximately the size of the head of a pin (approximately the same size as the macula in the eye. The macula is the area of the eye with the highest concentration of cones). The Gip is smaller than a tritium or fiber optic vial. In the picture to the right, it’s the tiny white dot on top of the tritium vial on my front sight.The word “Gip” doesn’t mean anything or stand for anythingon purpose.

The Original 'Bead-On-A-Block' Standard Bradley - Places the front sight bead on a block of steel for positive indexing, greater surface area and increased strength.Available in red and white colored plastic or gold brass beads. Metric Bradley - Beads are all white in color.Solid Brass Bradley - Uniform yellow brass (gold) or white brass (silver) beads with or without positive-stop skirts. Feb 03, 2017  During his time as a member of the US Border Patrol, Askins tied a white handkerchief to the end of his Remington Model 11 shotgun, to better index the barrel at night. Easy Gun Sight Hacks. While a handkerchief is not going to be too feasible for a handgun, there are some easier hacks to increase gun sight visibility. Here are a few: Nail. Apr 20, 2001 - Similar trick for those with Dot sights is to knock out the white plastic insert (if. It's a poor man's way of making a modification to his gun, but it.

Matt and Sherrie made up the term so that it would have no pre-conceived emotions attached to the name.Deep, clear focus on the Gip does a few things that shooters are going to be interested in. Focusing on the Gip gets more of your brain involved in the shooting process.Stay with me here for a second, but focusing on the Gip guarantees that you’re focusing on the front sight. Most shooters look at their target, converge their eyes to center the front sight in the rear notch and on the target, and then focus on the front sight.In reality, most people are looking THROUGH the front sight instead of having a fine focus on the front sight because they aren’t focusing on anything specific on the front sight. Great question(s), Alex. There are 2 answers to thisFirst, your sight alignment is going to be with your front and rear sights lined up so there is a straight line across the top and equal light on each side of the front sight.

Your sight picture will have the desired point of impact directly over (not behind) the center of the front sight if you’re shooting within 25 yards. If your point of impact is covered by the front sight, and you’re using a factory barrel and factory sights, 99% of the time it means that you’re anticipating recoil and attempting to counteract recoil before the bullet leaves the muzzle.Second, If you have proper sight alignment and sight picture, it doesn’t matter what part of the front sight you focus on. Focusing on the bottom of the front sight vs. Focusing on the top of the front sight won’t impact where the bullet goes.I hope that helps!Ox. That’s a great question, but it becomes a complicated question because “best” can have multiple meanings depending on whether you’re looking to maximize performance on a single platform or resilience across several.A peep sight or triangle sight are going to get you the best performance if you use them consistently enough to develop conditioned responses, but they’ll introduce a lag when you switch between guns.Personally, I’ve used (and loved) both peep and triangle sights on pistols, but I don’t use them anymore. Every single pistol I have has blade and post sights where the lines are all parallel for consistency and ease of switching from one to another.Have you shot with a pistol with a rear “v” sight?

If you really perform better with it and want to switch to it, then I’d switch any pistol you have to that system. But if you focus on “equal height & equal light” on squared off sights, you’ll probably get the same or better performance. I had a older 45 military competitor tell me about setting in a classroom concentrating on the end of a pencil tip for extended periods.

I have always shot handguns at practice with both eyes open, the only way this works for me is to partially close the off hand eye to get a real sharp picture, I also wear noline bifocals. I read pretty good and didn’t see if you close or partially close your off hand eye. Also I’m 72 so the front sight takes longer to acquire cleanly.

When pistol hunting I do close the offhand eye. In placing this dot on your front site in center rear where it should be seems like a good idea.

I’ve got a Sig Sauer model p229 Legion in 357 sig. It shoots great has a crisp break on the trigger, I’m at the age now where I have a cloudy view on my dominate eye right from a early cataract. He told me replacement to early is not a good idea and can reoccur causing a second replacement.

I can use my left eye and shoot left handed with about a 10 Percent drop in accuracy, although my vision is not so bad that I can’t put 10 Rounds at 25 ft in a fifty cent piece, not as good as a seal but fair. Anymore reccomendations for me?. @Duaine:Whether you’re planning to shoot competitively or whether you plan to carry your handgun for self-defense, becoming proficient in its use can prove to be quite expensive. However, there are ways to mitigate that expense, to an extent, which I’ll get to in a moment.First, however, you must be chastised for your current pursuit of developing a VERY dangerous habit. What you and your sons are doing will, without a doubt, come back to haunt you if you should ever find yourself in an armed confrontation. Wow, Ox, I’ve been shooting, handloading, and hunting for more than 50 years. I got my training from a coach named Tito Balestrieri, a guy you’ve never heard of, but, he won two smallbore gold medals in the 1932 Olympics.

He was also the Head Coach of the St. Johns All-Star Rifle Team, who were undefeated for nine years straight.

My point is that my groups with my handguns (marred by Parkinson’s and requiring extremely focused trigger control) have reduced by an average of close to 50% since I started using the gip. Many thanks.By the way, which are your favorite brand of knee & elbow pads? All the best, Keith Sheehan. Hi Ox,Great article!

I have gone through the INSIGHT Deadly Accuracy thumb drive 4-5 times now, and the INSIGHT thumb drive on Eye Dominance a couple of times. For those of us over 50, being able to really focus on the GIP is an issue. I had to get glasses made from an eye Dr. Who is a shooter. Really helped – one lens let me see downrange, the other let’s me focus on my GIP. You mentioned “the Zone” and I think I know what you mean, what it is.

My question is: How does one gain the ability to get into “the Zone” quickly, and then sustain it, for the duration of the number of rounds in the magazine? I know you may have to check with Matt and Sherri before giving out too much info on this, but are there any tips you can give me? And, I completely understand if you are not free to share this info in this forum. You really are putting out some of the most practical tips that I have seen online. Thanks so much.

That 10% thing is crap, we use nearly 100% all the time, even in sleep. However, here’s a quote from neuroscientist Paul King:“It is often said that 2/3 (60%+) of the brain is “involved” in vision. However possibly less than 20% of the brain is dedicated to “visual-only” functioning. The other 40% is doing vision+touch, or vision+motor, or vision+attention, or vision+spatial navigation, or vision+meaning, etc.”So 20% is fixed on the gip and 40% is the aforementioned unconscious section calculating and swinging into action.Great tip. I’m waiting for my package to arrive from Prescott any day now.Thanks Ox,Don.

Hey Don,I’m glad you mentioned that. What you’re referencing is a very common mis-application of the fact that fMRIs (Functional Brain Imaging or Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) tell us that we’re using the majority of our brain all of the time.Are there neurons firing in the majority of the areas of our brain the majority of the time? Yes.Are there neurons firing in the majority of the areas of our brain FOCUSED ON A SINGLE TASK the majority of the time? No.For many people, the pursuit movement of the eye to the Gip is what allows people to silence the audio soundtrack or punchlist going in their head (focus, breathe, pressfocus, breathe, press) & mute performance anxiety, second guessing, and anticipation (anticipatory jerk). They go from “looking” at the front sight and having lots of mental noise to “focusing” on the front sight, quieting and focusing the mind, and dedicating all available and appropriate mental resources to the task at hand.I try to show videos demonstrating the benefits and write about it, butlike your comment illustratesit’s really difficult to fully convey the process without experiencing it.

White Out For Gun Sights For Men

I’m not sure if that makes sense or notlet me know if you have any more questions and enjoy the course!. YesI am, and you bring up a GREAT point. If you don’t have well established neural pathways and can’t focus visually, you’re only going to be shooting with a small fraction of your brainkind of like putting an RPM limiter on a car that you’re going to run at the track.2. One solution is to have your eye doctor set up glasses with one of the diopters set to be able to read a business card clearly at arm’s length.

Better yet, find a eye doctor who’s a shooter and set the diopter to focus on your front sight.3. There are eye exercises that you can do to improve your vision.

The same flacidness and lack of flexibility that affects other muscles and connective tissue as you get older also affects the muscles that control the eye. There are eye exercises can help with both sight & target clarity as well as acquisition and transition speed here: There are free drills there, but get the whole course if you’re serious. The short answer is noThere’s a couple of things going on.First, it’s difficult to shoot groups smaller than your sight.Second, the main point of the Gip is to force a pursuit movement of the eye and engage more of the brain in the shooting processspecifically the right hemisphere of the brain. Doing this will trigger some cool things that happen between the eye and the brain, namely a desire to center things to 1/1000th of an inch. When you get a hard focus on the Gip, your eyes/brain will pull your sights into alignment like a bungie cord. It’s not QUITE that simple, but it’s the best way that I know of to describe the phenomenon. Great questionFirst off, congratulations on actually shooting after getting a gun!

Many people don’t, and expect to be able to use it successfully if they ever need to. I liken that to someone owning (but not ever driving) a car for a decade and then deciding that they can handle driving in 5 lanes of traffic at 80 miles per hour. The real world just doesn’t work like that and I commend you.Second, I recommend that everyone start off by getting PROFESSIONAL live firearms instruction. There are some nuances that you just can’t LEARN from a book or the internet. As an example, making an incision and closing it back up with stitches is something that you should really learn in live training. Once you’ve got that live training as a base, there are some great videos you can watch and books that you can read to refine your technique and give you ideas on how to do things better.Same with firearms training. Start with live training from a professional.

Try to find one at a range that has several guns for you to try. You should be able to find a gun that you’re comfortable enough shooting that you don’t flinch. (with proper form, you’ll be able to shoot MOST guns comfortably. I have a.357 magnum snub nosed revolver made of scandium (incredibly light) that hurts ME to shoot, so keep in mind that some guns are just more painful than others and you don’t need one of those guns.At first, I don’t care if shooters have to drop down to a.380 or a.22. I just want them to develop a positive mental feedback loop with shootingand that means associating shooting with FUN and dopamine instead of fear and freaking out.

Again, don’t worry about how good of a defensive gun/caliber it is at firstfind a FUN gun.Once you’ve got that taken care of, I’d STRONGLY suggest getting Dry Fire Training Cards, 3010Pistol.com, and/or Concealed Carry Masters Course and a SIRT inert laser training pistol to practice your technique without ammo, at home, until you’re comfortable and natural manipulating pistols. (This will completely eliminate your anticipatory flinch AND the freaking out part)Next, I would suggest going through the home study courseor fly out to Prescott and take it live.

It will completely reprogram your mind as to what is possible with a pistol and I can almost guarantee you that they’ll take you from where you’re at now to shooting 1 hole groups in less than 20 minutes on the range. They’ve done it with more than 5,000 students before you and they can do it with you. Val, It is great that you are shooting, I found that one of the biggest challenges I had was believing that I could shoot better with a handgun. Believe, that with practice, you will improve.

By practice I don’t mean pointing toward a target, firing the whole mag, then seeing what you hit. I found slowing down and loading one round at a time and just concentrating on making that one shot count, worked for me. Fundamentals breathing, sight alignment, trigger pull. Lastly go to the range spot someone who shoots well and talk to them.

BTW I like the idea of the GIP and will try it, thanks. Good pointyou don’t need the button OR center of mass to be in focus. The subconscious takes care of that while your conscious mind is tied up focusing on the Gip. The MOST important thing is to have your front sight centered in the rear notch. If your front sight is off to the right or left 1/8th of an inch, your shots will be off 7 1/2″ at 20 feet (depending on barrel length). But if your sights are aligned, you’ve got to move the gun a LONG ways to be off that fareven if your target blurs out.On the 100 yard shots, I’m not wearing glasses or contacts and can’t even see the target 🙂.

There’s a reason this style (Western from the hip) is not taught. It is inaccurate, and you are creating a liability for yourself, and a possible loss of life for an innocent every time you send a bullet downrange.You said that you are new to shooting a handgun. Well, go take a course. If you don’t have the money for a course, get on youtube and look for respected instructors’ video clips.

Don’t be the guy that brings his kids to the public range to “learn how to shoot” and you or them flags people, handles a firearm unsafely, or has a negligent discharge (not accidental—NEGLIGENT).If you think I’m picking on you, I’m not. You are risking peoples’ lives. How much time did you take at home, with your cleared pistol, to familiarize yourself with it.

Dry-fire practice, handling/manipulation, etc? Or, did you take it to the range without even doing a detailed stripping/cleaning of it?Last summer, I took my niece to the range. We ended up leaving because of a father and his two children. He was ‘teaching them how to shoot’ and he didn’t have a clue himself. After the third time they flagged us (I asked him to keep the firearm pointed downrange and not at us after the first time). As we were leaving, he shot the ground about ten feet in front of him.

All this was after I asked him if he wanted me to give him a intro to his pistol (after the first flag). Hey Jeff,I wear a CAT tourniquet on my belt when I’m shootingnot so that I look like a high-speed ninja commando combat medic, but to CONSTANTLY give people a visual reminder about how serious shooting is. I know the possibility exists, but I seriously doubt that I’ll ever need to use it at a range. That being said, I like to think that seeing it serves as a reminder to people who might be having “too much fun” or who’s brains are too flooded with adrenaline and endorphins to think clearly and help them get their mind back where it needs to be.For people who don’t know, “flagging” is pointing your gun at someone who you don’t intend to shoot.

Duaine, before you can “hip” shoot /Point Shoot. You have to develop your POINT OF AIM, its your feel of how the weapon points in relationship to its position.In order to develop that or any other instinctual/point shooting technique, you have to “master” using your sightspracticing with them OVER and OVER until it becomes second natureeverything begins with the PROPER use/training with your sights. Learn sight alignment and use, THEN you can start to develop some point shooting skillsget your basic range skills down.baby steps. Jumping past the first steps doesn’t get you anything but bad habits.hope this helps.

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