Mechanical Offset is the distance between the bore line of your gun and the eye line of whatever device you use to aim such gun. In most firearms, both lines are immediately on top of each other, but in rifles like the AR and the AK, there is s substantial distance and same goes with guns that may be using optics.

The importance of knowing this is because you there is a proper technique on how to shoot weapons with mechanical offset because if the Point Of Aim (POA) is different that the Point Of Impact (POI) on normal guns, the adding of Mechanical Offset will increased so the shot will end up not where we want it.

Here is s simple but effective graphic showing the principle:

Or you can watch a video with a real life and costly demonstration:

In the next lesson we will be talking about bi-pods, bags, shooting sticks and other devices that can help shooting a long gun without incurring in vehicular bodywork expenses. 😀

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ATLANTA – Rep. Dexter Sharper (D)* didn’t vote to allow guns to be carried in more places in Georgia last year. But when the so-called “guns everywhere” law took effect last summer and permitted firearms in bars, schools, churches and government offices, the legislator from Valdosta found himself applying for a license.
Sharper, a Democrat who works as a paramedic, said he didn’t want to be caught somewhere as the only person without a firearm. It’s a growing possibility in his district in Lowndes County, which now issues more than double the number of licenses it did five years ago.
While Sharper and his .32-caliber Kel-Tec may no longer be outgunned, he said he now realizes that his pistol is of little use without guidance as to what to do with it. He suspects other inexperienced, gun-toting Georgians know too little about the state’s gun laws, or how to safely use and store firearms, as well.
Sharper is proposing that those who get a license to carry firearms be required to take a gun safety class.  (* I added the “D”)

via State considers required safety classes for gun permits – The Tifton Gazette: News.

I will admit publicly that I read this article before I had my obligatory dose of caffeine so I might be just a skosh cranky.

Let me see if I am reading this right: He did not support Georgia’s Gun Laws, but he had no qualms taking advantage of them and getting himself a gun to carry. He realizes that he may need additional training and instead exercising some initiative and take the training, this idle-minded moron’s only attempt at discharging low-level electric current through the neurons in his brain is to come up with a bill (which he will now be exempted) demanding that people must take a class or else they are not worth of exercising their Second Amendment Right?

I am gonna get some coffee….

Update: More details here. Hat tip to Jeff A.

Corollary: Muzzle blast can be dangerous to your health.