Pro’s Guide to Rifle Fundamentals, sight Picture & Mechanical Offset.
Mechanical offset is the distance between the bore of your weapon and the optic attached above it. In all likelihood, your refined sight picture will have you aiming a little higher than where you want to place the rounds you’re about to fire.
In this episode, former SWAT team member and certified firearms instructor, Rick Crawley, explains how hitting the target with greater accuracy gets easier if you’ve got sight picture and sight alignment squared away.