In golf, follow-through means you complete the swing properly despite hitting the ball, you don’t alter your stance or swing before, during, or after contact with the ball. You certainly don’t look up to see where the ball went; that’s your caddy’s job ^_^

Just like in shooting, if you don’t follow-through in a golf swing, you’ll probably affect the trajectory of the projectile in one way or another.

The Epiphany of The Front Sight improved my shooting 100%. The Epiphany of The Swing Follow-through did the same for my golf game.

I don’t disagree with you. Thinking how I’ve coached people who were relaxing too soon, I have explained to them what they were doing and then have admonished them later to stay on the sights, implying both keeping track of the sights in recoil and not being in a hurry to relax or reholster.

Telling someone to reacquire a sight picture after the last shot is among the techniques that one uses to help a less experienced shooter along, expecting that they will overcome their need for the technique as they progress. It’s like telling a beginner always to use a hard front sight focus, knowing that other types of sight pictures are acceptable–preferable in some situations. Another analog is telling a beginner always to maintain contact with the trigger, knowing that some advanced shooters lose contact with the trigger when shooting very fast.

This brings up an interesting question: is it always best to teach people to shoot the way that the best shooters shoot? Think of Jelly Bryce teaching FBI agents in training. He attempts to teach them to shoot the way that he does, which is largely point shooting based upon physical abilities that are so far beyond the normal that they are almost beyond belief and years of practice that almost no one else will replicate. The agents might be better served by sighted fire that doesn’t require as much talent and practice. This is the type of argument made by Fairbairn, who insisted that his shooting technique was the best way to teach someone when only a very short period for training, perhaps a day, was available.

I’ve always taught people to use the best techniques of which I know, never dumbing it down. However, I realize that, if they don’t practice, they’d be better off with a club.

On the flip-side, teaching *RECOVERY* by encouraging/habituating a student to look for/re-acquire their sight picture is also a good way to de-program them away from an exaggerated muzzle rise, as seen in certain bad action/western movies and in some shooters habituated to “allowing the gun to rise in recoil”(slow-fire bulls-eye) rather than managing recoil effectively to quickly regain a sight picture for rapid multiple shots.

I don’t want to teach someone that if he fires six shots, he only really “follows through” on the last one.

When we begin to talk about multiple targets, I don’t want a student to think that he only follows through on the last target. But neither do I want him needlessly bringing his pistol down to get an unnecessary sight picture on the first target when it’s time to move to the second.

“Front sight lift” is a consistent method and has the added benefits mentioned above.

someone shoot me, quick.

I think there is a confusion here between defining follow through and a method for teaching people to follow through well. Some shooters, when they consciously or subconsciously know that it’s the last shot of a string, relax before the bullet leaves the barrel. Telling them always to get an additional sight picture forces them to maintain muscle tension in their arms, etc., for the last shot.

I understand and agree completely with what you say about calling the shot and seeing the sight lift to guarantee good follow through. However, new shooters can be taught to get a second sight picture before they master keeping their eyes open and tracking sights in recoil, helping them to follow through well from the get-go.