Now you can get more headshots!!

[Warped]

http://vimeo.com/7723597

A new technology may make it easier for gun owners to improve their marksmanship.

Opti-sight, a new pistol-aiming device, was developed to reduce the time law enforcement, professional and amateur shooters need for target practice to get better results at the firing range.

Typically, shooters use an optical device known as a "sight" to take aim before firing on a target. Traditional pistol sight designs rely on a square post mounted on the front of the gun's barrel that is visually centered inside a notch on the back of the barrel. Shooters use the two pieces to align the barrel with the target when firing. This method, saysTimothy Kraft, an associate professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who designed the device, takes considerable time to master as the brain must work to reconcile inconsistencies seen through the notch, post and target.

"The way a traditional gunsight works is all very disconnected," Kraft said. "In order to get a good shot off you have to visually scan the gap between the front post and rear sight on the left and equalize that to the gap on the right, then align all that with the center of the target. It is too much for the eye and brain to process."

The opti-sight notch also sits atop the rear of the gun barrel, but differs in that it is shaped like an incomplete half-triangle. Kraft says the new design fixes previous flaws by taking advantage of the way the subconscious mind fills in the blanks upon seeing half of a familiar shape like a circle, square, or triangle. So when a shooter looks through the notch, the brain tells the eye where the missing triangle apex should appear and that apex is the precise point of aim.

"Opti-sight makes shooting very intuitive by allowing gunsight alignment to become subconscious," said Kraft, who competes against some of the nation's best pistol shooters and has worked with members of the U.S. Olympic pistol team to test his opti-sight design.

"This triangular shape that I've created allows the brain to visualize concentric triangles whose imaginary apexes focus the shooter's attention on the exact target bullseye," he said.

http://www.livescience.com/technology/091211-gun-device.html

pretty simple tech too! I can't believe this wasn't thought of before, or if not why it isn't implemented if tested properly

 

[Stigmata]

This will come in handy in the bathroom.

 

[Acepilotf14]

This will come in handy in the bathroom.

This will come in handy in bed.

 

[Shamrock]

This will come in hand.

 

[kupocake]

This will come in handy in the secret cellar my wife doesn't know about.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Any video that actually shows the thing being used?

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Any video that actually shows the thing being used?

Wait you need a video, its just a glorified gunsight.

If you can't shoot correctly with the current standard of gunsights then you need shooting yourself

 

[Vegeta897]

I don't really understand how this is any easier to align visually than any other sight.

 

[Unfocused]

^this

Timothy Kraft, Ph.D., is looking down the barrel of a gun. A small, black target stands 150 feet away, but Kraft isn’t focusing on the target. He’s focusing on the pistol in his hand; not the part of the gun he can see, but the part that isn’t there at all.

I think it's worth mentioning that the target is black.

 

[Raziaar]

BUT I FAILED GEOMETRY!

 

[xcellerate]

"In order to get a good shot off you have to visually scan the gap between the front post and rear sight on the left and equalize that to the gap on the right, then align all that with the center of the target. It is too much for the eye and brain to process."

this seems like those late night infomercials where they show people struggling to do the simplest of tasks; "but omg it's SO hard to plug in my computer! But now with the E-Z-Plug handle plugging in my computer only takes me a few minutes!

 

[jverne]

this thing is so old! if you'd visited gun forums regularly you'd know.

 

[Krynn72]

God I can't believe that I wouldnt have known about this if I hadn't regularly visited a place that always has the latest updates on things I don't really care about! I AM SO ASHAMED

 

[Vegeta897]

But, you visit hl2.net regularly, and this is on hl2.net, among many other things that you don't really care about...

Hmm....

 

[Krynn72]

But we don't have the latest updates on those things we don't really care about. We get oldish updates on that stuff, while getting the newest updates on things we do.

 

[Rico]

Article in a nutshell:

"We're making guns easier to use for people who are too dumb to be able to think AND aim at the same time. Durrrp Derrrrrp doit!!1"

 

[Raziaar]

this seems like those late night infomercials where they show people struggling to do the simplest of tasks; "but omg it's SO hard to plug in my computer! But now with the E-Z-Plug handle plugging in my computer only takes me a few minutes!

lol, I know...

IRON SIGHTS ARE TOO HARD THE BRAIN CANNOT DO IT SO YOU MUST FIRE BLIND. NOW YOU DON'T HAVE TO!

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

what a shitty article...how can you you make an article like this without a picture or illustration that shows how it actually looks compared to normal sights?

 

[Maestro]

I could actually see this getting used.

I'd still take a red-dot sight over this triangle thing any day, though.

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

http://main.uab.edu/Sites/MediaRelations/articles/71589/

here you can see it in action....I like the regular sight more.

 

[Warped]

http://main.uab.edu/Sites/MediaRelations/articles/71589/

here you can see it in action....I like the regular sight more.

really?? cuz I swear its the first thing I posted but yeah regular sight might be nice until you shot with the triangular sight for a day or two. I'd give it a whirl

 

[Raziaar]

http://main.uab.edu/Sites/MediaRelations/articles/71589/

here you can see it in action....I like the regular sight more.

"Don't think, just shoot..."

just as he pulls the trigger and hits the GROUND.