Triangle aiming

The Triangle destinations is part of the military shooting training. The training method has been used in the Prussian army since the late 1880s at the latest and is still practiced today.

Triangle aiming involves securing a rifle in a rack or with sandbags to hold it in place. A white disc is set up 20 meters away. The rifle's line of sight is aimed at this target. An instructor holds a round plate on a rod (beer mats on a rod are also used as a makeshift for this) with a central hole, from the upper edge of which a colored triangular tip (spike) extends to the hole. According to the instructions of the shooter aiming at the rear sight and front sight, this trowel is moved over the target until he reports that the stinger is exactly over the front sight , i.e. in the target point. The trainer marks this point through the hole with a pen. First of all, another instructor who does not make target errors , preferably a shooting instructor, establishes a control point in this way, which is marked with a K on the target . The trainee then sits or lays down behind the rifle as if he were holding it at the ready, aims at the target and instructs the instructor to move the scoop to the target point determined by him (the trainee). Then the shooter drops off. The process is repeated three times. The markings result in a triangle that gave the method its name and from which the instructor can tell whether the shooter has made a target error. If the resulting error triangle has an edge length of less than 1 cm, the shooter can aim evenly. In addition, if the center of the error triangle is less than 2 cm from the control point, the shooter will not make any target errors. If a target error is detected, it should be noted that this has the opposite effect to normal shooting when aiming with a triangle (example: error triangle is below the control point means whole grain ).

Typically, recruits must successfully complete triangular aiming before firing their first sharp shot.

literature

Central Service Regulations (ZDv) 3/12, Shooting with Handguns, Bonn 2002 ( available online here )