Sight picture and follow-through, no weapon
Ready when: Range rules and commands (b1) started.
What you are learning
What the sights should look like when they line up with the target (the sight picture), drawn on paper from the club's picture, and the idea of follow-through: staying still and looking for a moment after the shot.
Words on this card Sight, Follow-through
- Sight
- The parts on top of the gun used to aim (a ring or a post), and how they line up with the target.
- Follow-through
- Staying still and looking at the target for a moment after the shot.
Set up
Paper and pens; a picture of the correct sight picture from the club (a rifle ring sight or a pistol post).
Weather: any weather
Show it first for the one teaching
- Look at the club's picture together and point to the target, the ring or post, and the equal gaps.
- Draw it from memory, then compare.
- Close your eyes and picture it for 10 seconds.
Your part while they practise
Ask the questions.
Step by step
- Draw the sight picture from memory.
- Compare it with the club's picture.
- Close the eyes and picture it for 10 seconds; 3 times.
- Talk it through: the shot is not the end; stay still and keep looking for a moment after it.
How much: 3 drawings 8 min a session 2 days a week
Say one thing Pick one line from "What you will see" for today and say only that.
The game: Pick the right one
You draw 3 sight pictures, one correct; the child picks it in 5 seconds.
Who plays: the child against you; swap so the child draws.
How to play, turn by turn
- Turns
- Draw 3 sight pictures, one right and two a little off
- Show them; count to 5
- The child points to the right one and says what is wrong with the others
- 6 rounds
- Fair play
- The grown-up must name both mistakes to score.
- Points
- 1 point for the right picture; 1 point for each mistake named in the others.
- Fouls
- No points
- Pointing after 5 seconds
- Changing the answer
- Naming a mistake that is not there
- Winning
- Beat your best from 6 rounds.
- 6 points for 1 star
- 12 points for 2 stars
- 18 points for 3 stars
Easier or harder
Trace the picture first.
Draw it with the eyes closed.
What you will see, and what to say
- the drawing is off-centre
Post in the middle, gaps equal
Same gap all round. - the child forgets the after-shot
Stay still, keep looking
Count to 2.
Self-check
The sight picture drawn correctly from memory 3 times in a row.
Stop and get a coach when
The club uses a different sight; use its picture.
Fitness for this
Warm up first: how to warm up, at workonfitness.com. For strength and stretching, its exercise library shows each exercise step by step, with an easier version.
This card trains sight picture, the idea of follow-through.
awiseathlete.com/sports/shooting/shooting-b4