Bofh,
Target shooting. I am a new shooter and not ready/competent/experienced enough to use as defense yet. I realized the first, and my only hour at the range the my sights were fuzzy and I think that had "some" effect on my poor performance. Lol. Thanks for your response.
OK, here are a few things to consider. The Eye-Pal Peep Sight is an overpriced shooting aid that can do more harm than good. Take a piece of tape and punch a hole through it and you get the same effect. In fact, that's how it was originally invented. Does it work? Yes, absolutely. However, it is only really good for precision target shooting, i.e., olympic-style shooting without competition rules prohibiting such shooting aids.
What's the harm? You will develop several training scars from using the Eye-Pal Peep Sight. A training scar is a bad habit that you develop during training that is counterproductive in the real world. The training scars developed with the Eye-Pal Peep Sight include: shooting with only one eye open, shooting with a shooting aid that you have on the range but never will have anywhere else, focus on precision and not defensive shooting, tunnel vision by design, and lack of situational awareness.
You say that you are not ready/competent/experienced enough yet to use a handgun for self defense. Take a full-day professional training class from a reputable instructor and you will be within that one day! Don't try to fix a training deficiency with equipment. Take a training class instead. Most new shooters hold the handgun wrong, do not have the right sight alignment & picture, jerk the trigger, don't manage the recoil and have no clue about other basics. Once you have been trained, you know what to do using the correct procedures and you can practice a what you have learned in the training class at the range.
Here is a video from the Combat Focus Shooting class by Rob Pincus that provides you with some insight. Can you learn a lot by buying the DVD from Personal Defense Network? Sure, but you won't have an instructor standing next to you correcting your errors.
