Been trying to decide on a compact EDC and found out only yesterday about a gun range that opened up little over 6 months ago up about 25 minuets from my house that has a quite large selection of handguns available to rent and shoot. Went there today and rented a P320 Carry and a CZ P10c. Now I have not shot any handgun in over 3 months and in that time I got new glasses as my sight and prescription had changed.
I was very surprised how blurry the sight picture was, I mean it caught me completely off guard as I honestly don't recall experiencing this level of blurry when last I shot my HG's. I had no small difficulty seeing and maintaining a good solid and clear sight picture. But I did my best and put 100 rounds through each gun. I was once again reminded just how much skill and concentration is needed to shoot a HG well.
When I shot the P320 Carry I was really getting aggravated with myself because the first 8 of 15 rounds at 12 yards formed a nice ragged hole a little under 2" the remainder still not that bad considering it was the first time I ever fired the gun. The fact I was struggling to see clearly enough to consistently maintain a solid sight picture didn't help. A 100 rounds later and I am confident the gun is FAR more accurate than I am, and all my groups looked and started out the same, first 5-8 rounds forming a nice (for me) tight group then begin opening up. A fellow shooter at the range after noticing the displeased look on my face commented if I would have limited my self to 3 or 5 shot groups, I would likely have been much more satisfied.
My question, especially to police officers is when you vision becomes like mine and you can no longer see as clear a sight picture as you recently were while using iron sights, what, if anything (and I suspect there is little one can actually do besides going to a red dot/reflect type sight) do you do to over come and improve the sight picture? I am positive with practice I will be able to significantly improve my accuracy at 10-15 yards, as without doubt it is me and not the gun. But I can see it will take some serious effort to adapt to the new blurry sight picture I am now encountering.
I have to say one the one hand I shot some great (FOR ME) 3 and 5 shot groups groups today. But let my concentration or form slip just the ever so slightest bit and wow it showed instantly as would be expect. Aggravating but also quite encouraging because I shot just enough good groups to know with practice I can get MUCH better.
Because of the issue with my eye sight I felt that a 100 rounds through each gun was not sufficient to allow me to be able to render a good determination of which was the best for me and I also wanted to try out at least two other HG's as well as shoot the Sig and the CZ at least another 100 rounds each. Unfortunately I had paid for only an hour of range time and as I found out when the range is extremely busy you can not just add on an additional hour you have to wait to cycle back trough and use the range again. Doing so today equaled an minimum 90 minuet to two hour wait at least. As I'm still off work tomorrow I will go back better prepared and will pay for at least two hours range time.
I plan on renting the P320 carry and CZ P10c again along with a VP9 and a M&P 2.0 Compact.
Hopefully by the end I will know which one I like the best.
I was very surprised how blurry the sight picture was, I mean it caught me completely off guard as I honestly don't recall experiencing this level of blurry when last I shot my HG's. I had no small difficulty seeing and maintaining a good solid and clear sight picture. But I did my best and put 100 rounds through each gun. I was once again reminded just how much skill and concentration is needed to shoot a HG well.
When I shot the P320 Carry I was really getting aggravated with myself because the first 8 of 15 rounds at 12 yards formed a nice ragged hole a little under 2" the remainder still not that bad considering it was the first time I ever fired the gun. The fact I was struggling to see clearly enough to consistently maintain a solid sight picture didn't help. A 100 rounds later and I am confident the gun is FAR more accurate than I am, and all my groups looked and started out the same, first 5-8 rounds forming a nice (for me) tight group then begin opening up. A fellow shooter at the range after noticing the displeased look on my face commented if I would have limited my self to 3 or 5 shot groups, I would likely have been much more satisfied.
My question, especially to police officers is when you vision becomes like mine and you can no longer see as clear a sight picture as you recently were while using iron sights, what, if anything (and I suspect there is little one can actually do besides going to a red dot/reflect type sight) do you do to over come and improve the sight picture? I am positive with practice I will be able to significantly improve my accuracy at 10-15 yards, as without doubt it is me and not the gun. But I can see it will take some serious effort to adapt to the new blurry sight picture I am now encountering.
I have to say one the one hand I shot some great (FOR ME) 3 and 5 shot groups groups today. But let my concentration or form slip just the ever so slightest bit and wow it showed instantly as would be expect. Aggravating but also quite encouraging because I shot just enough good groups to know with practice I can get MUCH better.
Because of the issue with my eye sight I felt that a 100 rounds through each gun was not sufficient to allow me to be able to render a good determination of which was the best for me and I also wanted to try out at least two other HG's as well as shoot the Sig and the CZ at least another 100 rounds each. Unfortunately I had paid for only an hour of range time and as I found out when the range is extremely busy you can not just add on an additional hour you have to wait to cycle back trough and use the range again. Doing so today equaled an minimum 90 minuet to two hour wait at least. As I'm still off work tomorrow I will go back better prepared and will pay for at least two hours range time.
I plan on renting the P320 carry and CZ P10c again along with a VP9 and a M&P 2.0 Compact.
Hopefully by the end I will know which one I like the best.