Center of mass
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September 19th, 2013 at 8:39 pm
Center of crotch might be worse. Just sayin’.
September 20th, 2013 at 2:05 pm
Center of what you can see is the way it was explained to me as a basic trainee in 1986 and has remained that way. Shoot into the center of what you see. The method was meant to give you the highest probability of hitting the target. A miss does not count in human warfare.
I understand what the author means in this post. I get it. But I also wonder what type of target they are using. Military silhouettes just assume waist line to head or shoulders to head. I have honestly never assumed a man’s legs were part of finding center because I have never had training targets that included a visual reference to any part of the body below the vital organs.
September 20th, 2013 at 6:39 pm
Well, the center of gravity is the slowest moving part of the body and also will follow the laws of simple motion, arcs and such. It is below the belly button on top of the hips otherwise people would get pretty tired keeping themselves from tipping over.
As for vitals, if you look at the structure, there is a about a 3″ wide column from groin to the top of the head and almost 3″ wide stripe above the nipple line to the armpits where vital blood vessels (and organs lie).
Center of the chest is problematic since there is the sternum and increasingly today the soft, energy absorbent man-boobs to either side. But the center of the chest does have a semi rigid attachment to the center of gravity, thus limited motion and is in the central vitals column.