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Rifle and Handgun Marksmanship

Aiming, trigger control, breathing and follow-through are the same fundamentals for shooting both rifles and handguns.

A rifle or handgun is aimed. This requires two things: sight alignment and sight picture. Of course, our modern firearms offer a variety of different aiming devices such as iron sights, peep sights and telescopic sights to aid the shooter.