New Sight
A University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Vision Science Research Center investigator who also is an expert marksman has found a more intuitive way to aim a pistol.
Associate Professor Timothy Kraft, Ph.D., has developed a new gunsight design that relies on subconscious ability. Opti-sight, a UAB-protected innovation, updates a pistol-aiming device that has remained unchanged for more than a century. Opti-sight promises to reduce the time law enforcement, professional and amateur shooters need for target practice to improve marksmanship.
December 14th, 2009 at 11:23 am
I’ve seen that before and would like to try it some time. However, my favorite part is in the pictures where it indicates that it’s good for people who may not be very good with firearms – like cops.
December 14th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
I want it. When can I get this on a springfield XD? I feel the need.
December 14th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Looks like the similar idea for the Styer sights (whatever they call them) and I find those to be VERY fast to acquire.
December 14th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Wow really? Theres a company called Suresight been making sights based on this theory for a while now. I like mine.
http://www.suresight.com
December 14th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
I played with a dummy glock that had those suresight sights on them this weekend. I was AMAZED how fast they were. I’ll be putting them on my Gen 4 G17.
December 14th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Navin Johnson is preparing his lawsuit against UAB’s new Opti-sight for trademark infringment on his invention the Opti-Grab.
December 14th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Pete, that’s great! Clip:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4150647508611270621#
December 14th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
SureSight has been in vaporware mode for a while, unfortunately.
December 14th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
SoupOrMan: I could’ve bought one yesterday. They had plenty in blister packs at the Guns and Gear Expo, and at a gun shop I went to on the way home.
December 14th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Actually, it’s entirely possible that my mind was playing tricks on me. I saw the demo gun in front of a bunch of tritium pistol sights at both places, but I dont actually remember picking one up and confirming it was a suresight set.
December 14th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
So, it’s an eyeball thing that goes up?
December 15th, 2009 at 3:06 am
It is interesting that the Russian Olympic team in the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s did A LOT of work on what constitutes an optimal sight picture for very high level target shooting… (There is a qualifier of “high level” and “Olympic” events in that statement.)
A lot of those findings were put forth in Yur’Yev’s (that Yur’Yev apostrophe s) book on Competitive Shooting
These guys had serious backing (hey it was communism. They even subsidized things like Chess…) and dug deep and wide.
The base premise was the for competitive shooters, sights with a U notch would guide the eye toward the tops and training would help to ease the subconsciously leveling of the tops. Hence there are a lot of competition sights like Warren Tactical, 10-8, etc that do the same.
They found that for different disciplines (Rapid Fire, Free Pistol, etc…), different ratios of widths between the front sight to rear notch were optimal. I wish I had a copy and could find my notes… The info is out there in places like TargetTalk, Brian Eno’s forum, etc…
Fascinating stuff…