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What people too often fail to realize is that the whole school of point/reflexive/unsighted/whatevertheycallitthisweek fire was mostly developed before the advent of modern sport training science. Those writers resorted to those methods of shooting under stress because because they didn't have a reliable, consistent, quantifiable (shoothouses, video playback, shot timers, reactionary targets, etc) methods of training. Couple this with modern stress inoculation and deadly force psychology and we have the ability now to train to a point of respond versus react.
When you look at it, Paul Howe, Kyle Lamb, Larry Vickers and Pat McNamara (an very distinguished SF small arms NCOIC) all pretty much have dismissed point shooting as anything other than a retention/low/no light method. What always amuses me is the number of point/reflexive/unsighted/whatevertheycallitthisweek firing instructors that like to use the term 'its another tool for you' as a way of defusing criticism against their methodology.
Whole lotta guys died in due to volleyed fire and bayonet charges back in the day, doesn't mean that we should return to that method of fighting.
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