Sight Picture

**Sight picture** is the relationship between the firearm's sights, the target, and the shooter's eye at the moment of the shot. For iron sights: front sight centered in the rear notch, equal light bars on either side, top of the front sight aligned with the point of impact. For red dots, prism optics, and LPVOs, sight picture is simpler — put the reticle on the target — but the discipline is the same: the eye's focus belongs on the front sight or the reticle, not the target. Target focus is a natural instinct and it is the instinct that has to be trained out. Sight picture holds the shot together. Trigger press breaks shots; sight picture places them.