Purpose: To examine the relationships between sight pictures, heart rate (HR) change when aiming and shooting performance in air pistol athletes. Method: Five shooters from Central Police University were recruited in this study. Each shooter took 20 shots. The collected date were HR, sight pictures and scores. HR was recorded by a Polar watch during shooting. After each shooter fired a single shot, researcher asked him/her the sight pictures at the moment of shooting and filled out the sight picture questionnaire. The sight picture questionnaire includes three kinds of sight pictures: sight pacture A (focusing on the target), sight picture B (focusing on the front sight and rear sight) and sight picture C (focusing on the target, front sight and rear sight). Results: Chi-square analysis indicated that there was no association between sight pictures and HR change (χ² = .15, p > .05). Two-way ANOVA indicated that HR change had no significant effects on shooting performance, and the interaction between HR change and sight pictures on shooting performance was not noticed. However, there were significant differences on scores betwen different sight pictures. When shooters used sight picture B (M = 9.40), scored higher than using sight picture C (M = 9.09). Conclusion: This study showed that when shooters used sight picture B during aiming, shooting performance was better than sight pictures C. Specifically, shooters performed better when they focused on the front sight and rear sight of the gun than on both of the target and the sight of the gun. It is suggested that if coaches use sight picture questionnaire for establishing the conception of aiming and instruct shooters to focus on front sight and rear sight during basic air-pistol training, it could improve the shooting performance.