But if you aim for the whole pie plate and you miss, you’ll miss everything. That way if you miss the center you’ll likely still hit the pie plate. In other words, rather than aiming generally at a pie plate, you should aim at the very center of that pie plate. This means that the smaller your point of aim -or the more focused you are on a specific point- the less likely you’ll be to miss the whole target. This is done for two reasons:įirst, for some context, you may have heard of another saying in shooting: Aim small, miss small. So when someone says “give me a 6 O'clock hold,” or “hold at 6 O’Clock,” they are simply asking you to aim slightly low. A 6-O'clock hold, then, means a sight picture (front sight, rear sight and target) wherein the sights are aligned immediately below the bullseye. Six O’Clock, of course, refers to a clock wherein the number 6 is always found below its center, or at the bottom of its face. Turns out, I believe many new shooters are confused on what is meant by a “6 O’Clock” hold, exactly, and why is it useful.
He’d obviously forgotten, or more likely, I’d forgotten to explain.Īnd so I called a ceasefire. “Huh?” he swiveled his head around and looked at me funny, sights still on the target. As he was aiming, I reminded him to focus on the front sight, and I said, “Gimme a 6 O’Clock hold.”
I took my nephew shooting several years ago.
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