basic question on sight picture with peep sights on AR15

[thefinger]

Keep the rear peep sight in focus. Forget about your front post and target.

[anotherted]

If you have a pistol grip, your rifle is capable of highly accurate spray fire anyway. So who needs front/rear sites?

[NeoWeird]

If you have a pistol grip, your rifle is capable of highly accurate spray fire anyway. So who needs front/rear sites?

You know, this brings up the question of why no one has bothered to put a NV scope on their pistol grip rifle and put a flash hider on it so they can spray randomly, from extreme distances, in the dark, without being seen, and never having to reload.

I mean hell, why don't we just do that with out military and win all our wars overnight?

[xenophobe]

I've heard many reasons why people have not qualified expert, getting to know your rifle and learning instinctive shooting is key. Rifle qualification is a timed course and focusing primarily on your front sight, scanning the field and then returning to focusing on your front sight and aligning properly just takes too much time for some people. Dime sized groups are not your objective, taking timed multiple targets at varying distances is. Going through MOUT courses as well, your attention is on room clearing, acquiring the targets, deciding friend/foe and then taking out the BG, you're aiming center mass and your attention is not focused on your front sight. Many pistol courses (as well as archery classes) also stress on instinctive shooting as well. Instinctive shooting plays a key role in self defense as well.

I'd really like to see how some of the NRA high power shooters do on an ARM range. Actually I do know, the people who were most comfortable shooting instinctively did the best.

And this advice is absolutely the truth:

Just look through the rear apeture at the front center post. The "wings" are not related to aiming in any way and are simply there to protect the front sight. Your eye will naturally center the front sight post within the rear apeture.