Peeking over the front sight

[Thumbcocker]

I can't break the habit. I get a good group going and peek over the sight. Then there is cursing and an occasional foot stomp.

Mrs. Thumbcocker, my spotter, doesn't believe that Olympic shooters curse and stomp during commercials. She also refuses to believe that flyers are caused by anti-gun democrats bent on eroding the morale of the shooting public. I don't know what's wrong with her.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20201205/8c2af4a9803e88f41e1d35626b2a1e69.jpg

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[Bigslug]

It's mental. Try this:

The target is tomorrow's newspaper that tells the world how you screwed up today. Looking at the target as you shoot is like trying to read a blank sheet of newsprint that has no ink on it yet.

The front sight is the crystal ball that predicts the future of the bullet and will tell you what will be in the newspaper tomorrow.

LOOK AT THE DAMN CRYSTAL BALL!:razz:

[DHDeal]

Mrs Thumbcocker can help with your psychological discrepancy here. Have her watch you shoot and when she notices you looking at the target, she smacks you on top of the head with a rolled up magazine or 2" diameter piece of oak dowel. She'll probably feel like she's helping. I would think it will cause you develop a bad flinch but you'll be cured from peeking. When you develop that bad flinch, PM me and I'll have further advice. Mrs Thumbcocker can help with that too. I suspect she'll watch you shoot often so this is also marriage therapy.

As I'm not doing this professionally here, there'll be no charge for the assistance.

[Thumbcocker]

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[Winger Ed.]

When I look at my targets, and there is a 'flyer'...... I figure its from some spazo shooting on my target by mistake.

[rintinglen]

It's the barrel--the darned thing has a hole in it and it lets the boolits leak out when your not ready.

[DHDeal]

You'll notice that others are helping you look for the cause for your aliment mechanically, where as I'm trying to diagnose the mental. I'd always been told 50% of it is 90% mental.

Oh, and my ex-wife had a Master's in Psychology and used it on me everyday so I know what may help here (true sad story and I supplied a lot of study material so she said).

Again, no charge as I'm here to help.

If I'm wrong then the only other explanation is rintinglen's idea.

[shooting on a shoestring]

Naw it’s a matter of timing. When you had the good group going is when you should have stopped.

[dverna]

Typical of people shooting at close distances.

Try this exercise. Put up a blank sheet of paper with no target about 15-25 yards away (depends how large your bullets are and how bad your eyes are) so you cannot see the impacts. Use light loads so you will not flinch. Put the front sight in the middle of the paper/pie plate and squeeze the trigger. You will not be tempted to admire your shots if you cannot see them.

Your eye will automatically put the sight in the middle of the paper/plate and you will not be as tempted to "catch the bullseye" as you wobble and shake. I used this to teach me trigger control when I shot NRA. You will be surprised at the groups you get.

Good luck!

[Petrol & Powder]

Mrs. Thumbcocker is a bit more preceptive than Mr, Thumbcocker.

[AndyC]

Measure your chambers - the front part. You may have a chamber or two that's wildly different in diameter compared to the others.

Of course, if those are all within about 1-thou' of each other, then the answer is obvious. It's the Commies.

[country gent]

With the global warming, unrest, foreign involvement, the earths rotation is out of balance and no longer smooth its jerking causing the target to ,ove faster slower or stop dring the flight of the bullet. The flight is constant once fired its the earths movement thats varying and messing up the works

[LAH]

You should recount that target. After last night you may have done much better than anyone could imagine.

[W.R.Buchanan]

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Plenty more where that came from!

Randy

[NuJudge]

When I look over my sights to see how my shots are falling on the target, I unconsciously lift my head and look over the sights before the shot sometimes, and throw a shot high. That does not appear to be what you are doing. You are throwing them low. You are doing something different from me.

[merlin101]

I can't help you but I do admire how you filled in that string of flyers to the left with screw heads! That's some good thinking!

[Silver Jack Hammer]

When I was a firearms instructor on a police dept this one officer always shot 100%. He was a shotgunner. He said it’s all follow through. Your not done when you pull the trigger, you have to follow through your shot. The same applies to a handgun, but us handgunners tend to forget that.

[LAH]

When I was a firearms instructor on a police dept this one officer always shot 100%. He was a shotgunner. He said it’s all follow through. Your not done when you pull the trigger, you have to follow through your shot. The same applies to a handgun, but us handgunners tend to forget that.

That hits the nail on the head.

[onelight]

I know the peeking feeling well :( the first shot out of my new sig p210 was dead center on the bull my shooting buddies all yelled "stop don't fire another shot you'll blow it " my next 3 made a clover leaf on that first and I peeked and blew the last one so I did the murmuring stomp dance :) not unusual for me.