How to Aim & Control your Breathing

So once you learnt how to get that perfect standing position you need to tame yourself for coordinating all those unnecessary and involuntary movements in your body along with the firing technique you follow. Once you have dry fired several times on a blank target its time to get your guns on live firing. 
Aiming, Sight picture, proper breathing control and controlled technique are a few elements of a target shooting.
Aiming accurately and thoroughly following your technique of shooting  is the key to increase your score amazingly!!




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Your shot process should be on your mind  especially just before going to bed.
 Visualize yourself executing your shooting technique or shot process. ( Last thing you do before sleeping) 


Dry firing tones up your muscular movements and the task is to introspect on your Inner Stance but when we do live firing we have a proper target ahead of us where we have to aim with a perfect sight picture. 
Now sight picture doesn't build up by simply looking through your rear n front sight apertures. You will have to construct one!!
Follow these two simple 
steps:

    1. Sight picture Alignment-  you all must know how to align your sight picture correctly. Its very simple, you have to look through the rear sight to see the front sight centered in the rear sight opening. Doing a lot of dry firing can help to attain the steadiness to control your movements and have a concentric sight picture.

2. Sight Picture-  to complete the sight picture you need to point the aligned sights at the centre of the bulls eye on the target and control the movements of the front sight aperture around the bull's eye. Initially your hold area is going to be larger covering till the 8th ring but with time & practice it will become smaller. 
   
You must learn to accept the movement of the front sight aperture and execute a polished trigger control without affecting or disturbing the sight picture.








Let's talk a little bit about the Breathing. 


Controlling your breath
Guys, you must have noticed during dry firing if you hold your breath you managed to hold your rifle more steadier on the target. Know why?
Because when we hold our breath, there is no expanding of diaphragm keeping the chest in its place and steadier.  But your breath holding lap should not be for more than eight seconds.  Longer the hold, more will be the shakiness in the body due to tension in our muscles. You don't have to muscle the rifle and try to bring it back to the centre of the target. 
 Just hold the rifle in your position and try to calm your muscles down.





Go work on your aiming area and your breathing cycle and I will post soon on how to hold steady!!