Air Rifle Sight Picture

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:11 am

How should one focus on the sights in air rifle. That is-should you focus on the front sight as in pistol, or on the target itself, lining up the circles? Thanks.

cbpersel · Post by **cbpersel** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:21 am

On the target, lining up the circles.

Sparks · Post by **Sparks** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:25 am

On the foresight, lining up the circles.

cbpersel · Post by **cbpersel** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:25 pm

Let me re-phrase myself. Unlike pistol . . . you want to to have a clear picture of the sights AND target.

Craig

Sparks · Post by **Sparks** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:28 pm

cbpersel wrote:Let me re-phrase myself. Unlike pistol . . . you want to to have a clear picture of the sights AND target.

Er... well, if you can get that, wonderful - but many people can't focus clearly at distances of one meter and ten/fifty metres at the same time and to the same degree of clarity. So generally, it's the foresight. 'Course, the book is titled "Ways of the Rifle", so if it works for you, use it!

cbpersel · Post by **cbpersel** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:07 pm

Let me quote from Ralf Horneber's "Olympic Target Rifle Shooting" . . . the rifle shooter (as opposed to the pistol shooter) directs his attention to centering of the image of the aiming mark in the frontsight element. When doing this it is important that the sight-picture is seen as a whole, rather than successively focusing on the aiming mark and the frontsight ring to make the comparison."

Are they both 100% clear? Probably not, but close enough and in equal clarity compared to one another. I`m assuming, but not certain, that the eye is probably focusing somewhere between the end of the rifle and the target to achieve this.

Craig