...."It's an axiom that hitting your target is your main concern, and the best way to hit is to use your sights, but circumstances do arise in which the need for speed is so great, and the range so short, that you must hit by pointing alone, without seeing your gun at all.
...Pointer fire is not as hard to learn as sighting, once you realize it's range limitations. using the 1911 auto-pistol I have found that I can teach the avjerage infantryman to stay on a silhouette at 10 yards--using pointer fire in two shot bursts--more easily that I can get him into that 25 yard bullseye using slow fire and sights.
Of course this sort of shooting is strictly a way of obtaining body hits at essentially indoor ranges ( 30 feet and under)..
..But up close pointer fire can be murderously effective, and it's mastery is often the difference between life and death."( pg 97-98)
Strange, nobody has said that anywhere, or even suggested it AFAIK, so why you would be convinced to do that seems rather strange.Well, I'm convinced, I'm going to abandon the Modern Technique, the Weaver stance, the flash sight picture and all the rest of it. All these years the teachings of Cooper, Taylor, Smith and the rest of them were wrong. They tried a system and it failed.
Much of that depends on what level you want to use. To engage a man-sized target at 10 feet doesn't take many rounds. To engage a popcan tossed on the ground 10 feet away takes more development.I thougt it was 'natural'. Swamp, if it's that natural why so many rounds?
Those are the basics if you want to be a competition shooter. If you just want to survive a shootout, target-focus seems the proper basics. easier and faster to learn to achieve the desired goal.Walk before you run. Learn the basics, that is sighted fire first.
Thta is the real issue, IMO. The more we learn about stress, reactions, and the body the more we realize that that training needs to utilize natural responses rather than go against them for the typical person. Yes, if you train a whole lot you might reduce the level of response, or you might delay it, but it will come and it will come fast for most. Might as well deal with that issue first, then move on to the less likely.For some, the brain just won't let you take the eyes off of an immediate lethal threat.
Actually he says that it is "murderously effective" out to 30 feet and can be trained in a fraction of the time that it would take to make even a fair target shot.
Equally strange, IMO, is the number who consistently (and intentionally in some cases, IMO) twist and distort the position of the target focus camp to try to make it something nobody on that side has said.Strange how so many are angry that I began this thread.
To me knowledge is power and the past should be known.
I consider shooting the SOB to the ground while rapidly closing in with rapid fire multiple hits to be the objective when the range is close and cover is not an option.
Then again, hasn't D.R. Middlebrooks won a lot of competitive events with point shooting?
Those are the basics if you want to be a competition shooter. If you just want to survive a shootout, target-focus seems the proper basics. easier and faster to learn to achieve the desired goal.
Huh?? Deaf, in a long history of posts that are absolutely un-related to what is being discussed or what was said, that has to be at the top. I haven't the faintest idea what "basics not part of suvival of a shootout" is supposed to mean, much less what is in reference to.What david? You get this from some dictionary you pulled of the air? Basics not part of suvival of a shootout?
Bogie said:Do NOT make me let the whoopass fairy out of her cage.
Well, given that deaf says he works on point shooting regularly, and I regularly practice at the 25 yard line, I don't think you've got it quite right!One of you needs to hang some targets out at 25 yards, and work on your bullseye accuracy skills, and the other needs to stick some pie plates up at 7 yards, and work on your "broad side of a bad guy" skills.