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August 9, 2008, 06:05 PM | #26 |
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There's just no way
It has been proven over and over again that sighted fire is superior to unsighted fire.
I can see he value of point shooting with your first shot at very close range (3 yards or less), but if all possible then acquiring the sights will lead to more precise shot placement. Is not the main thing we all stress shot placement? If you want your shots to be well directed at the sternum and brain, use your sights.
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What is typically taught is sighted fire and point shooting, with an emphasis on the sighted fire. Typically taught as in I cannot think of anyone teaching otherwise; even the most ardent sighted fire proponents teach some point shooting solution to managing close-in threats, after all.
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August 9, 2008, 09:33 PM | #28 |
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I just think a gunfight is the wrong time to discover that your training is incomplete.
I never said that point shooting is superior to aimed fire--why does everything have to be either or? Leadbutt is correct that Bill Jordan was a big fan of point shooting for situations when aimed fire is nearly impossible. |
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Since most confrontations occur at 7 yards or under, I'd say instinctive shooting (I believe that's what Bill Jordan called it) is a wise practice routine. Annie Oakley rarely used the rear sight of her levergun and hit some pretty small targets with amazing regularity. I practice drawing my weapon to a ready position and to full extension and firing the first shot towards where I'm looking. Under 10 yards, It's not hard for me to nail the center of mass. One hole drills are good for developing that instinctive alignment.
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What I took from this case is a lack of situational awareness and the importance of getting the first good hit on a bad guy.
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Stone Cold..I could not agree more.
Threegun..some very good point indeed. But, if one is shot first which method--point or aimed fire-- would give him a better chance of hitting his mark? For those interested, here is a link to a point shooting home study course that I wrote a few years back. http://kilogulf59.proboards80.com/in...lay&thread=114 |
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Matthew, Don't know as I've never been shot. I do practice both just in case.
I base which to use on distance and position in the reactionary curve. If I'm ahead, no need to rush. If behind and within my ability to hit.........I'm point shootin. |
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I've shot both ways and know from experience which method is superior and has been proven to be superior. Since 1986 I have used a range timer to measure just how fast I can draw and fire, draw and fire quality hits. Prior to that time I used point shooting, I could draw and fire all six rounds of full power .357 from my Model 66 in 3 to 3.5 seconds and some of them were in the A-zone some of them weren't. In fact I had no idea how slow I was till I started using a timer. Now I typically do Mozambique Drill's in 1.5 seconds or less and can draw and fire an entire magazine from my 1911 in less than 2.5 seconds, I have done it in less than 2. I always use the sights, my hits are in the A-zone. I drew and fired the above 8 rounds from 5 yards in 2.31 seconds. In regard to the OP in my mind the main question still is, can any of us put our training into practice, after being shot and attacked by six assailants. Firstly I hope I never have to find out, and secondly with all the speculation and armchair quarterbacking aside, I don't think any of us will truly know until it happens.
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Nate45..from what I have read many competitors do use target focused/point shooting techniques on some of the closer close range courses of fire.
Brian Enos is a classic example of hard/soft focus techniques. Which just reproves that there is a place for both. Then again, what a professional shooter can accomplish compared to the typical Joe may not be a fair comparison And quite a few writers who have been shot at also sing the praises of both shooting methods |
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Also when talking about fighting with the gun there is a line of thought that suggests speeding up until your groups open up a bit. Your all A zone hits while beautiful and fast could be A & B zones hits even faster while still being effective. Personally I don't use the sights on the real close action shooting targets. |
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I have read the works on point shooting before that you site in the article you wrote Point Shooting Lesson Plan By Matthew Temkin before, I read No Second Place Winner in the 70's, I taught myself to draw and point shoot before I learned the Modern technique, there is a place for point shooting I fully agree. I just don't see how it would have helped the subject in the OP from the description of events.
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In a real life or death situation, given the relatively puny nature of handgun rounds and what it actually takes to incapacitate someone. My opinion is that the more well directed the shots are at the sternum and brain the better your odds are of success.
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Oh no. Not another thread degenerating into a "point shooting vs. sighted shooting" argument.
Both are necessary. It's not either-or but both-and. Quote:
The point (obvious pun) is to get adequately-accurate and adequately-fast hits on target, on a life-threatening adversary, at relatively close range. Point shooting does this faster, in hands that know how to accomplish it, faster than sighted shooting. At longer distances, sighted shooting excels point shooting for accuracy, no doubt about it, but that isn't the condition under discussion here.
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(opening can of worms..) uh, exactly what IS the delay with using sights? How much time exactly?
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It's highly unlikely that even the most brain-dead thug would think that a good way to take a person in a motor vehicle by surprise would be for a half-dozen men loiter in front of a residence in full view. The point is that given what the article actually SAYS, there's no way to blame this on SA just like there's no way to say that sighted shooting was the cause of the misses or that point shooting would have saved the day. What I was getting at with my comment about SA is that it's commonly used as a convenient "out" or as a "scapegoat". I hear people recommending ill-advised courses of action and when the problem is pointed out they blithely respond that their excellent SA will prevent their poor tactics from biting them in the nether declivities. I hear people immediately assuming that SA was the problem in scenarios even when there was no evidence to suggest that it was. The fact is that NO one manages to ALWAYS have perfect SA, and even those who have excellent SA are not immune from having bad things happen to them. SA is very, VERY important, but it's not always the problem when something goes wrong and it's not always going to save you from trouble.
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I love gun mag stories. It is almost as good as the letters section of Penthouse. They give some guys erections for very different reasons but they are almost always made up.
My favorite was one I read recently about two campers being rousted from their sleeping bags by two "hippies" clad in flowered shirts and bell bottoms wielding knives and bats. Luckily both men had headed the advice to always sleep with your firearms inside your sleeping bag. Although, I am a big supporter of both point shooting and being able to shoot with both hands. At least of my practice time is done point shooting. Last edited by Playboypenguin; August 10, 2008 at 03:56 PM. |
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Don't you think that would depend on where a person was shot, maybe? FYI, from the description YOU provided in the OP, it sounds like the story teller was using point shooting... Quote:
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I don't see how this validates anything. Misses with one hand are about as good as misses with two hands. On the other hand, I'd read Paul Howe's work on the subject. Might see other thoughts on this. Say brownie, how much experience did the writer of the article have? Hmmm he had a wheel gun in the age of automatics. Kind of wonder about him. Please enlighten us.
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Ok I'm sold, I'm gonna file off all the sights on my pistol.
LOL not likely, they put those sights on pistols for something.
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I took that to mean the victim's car, but I believe you are correct.
Nonetheless, the article doesn't say that the men or the vehicle were present or visible when the man pulled up. In fact, it sounds like they pulled up behind him based on the description of the article. If you take the statement to mean that the BG was in front of the BG's car then the next statement which seems to say that the BG was at the back of the victim's car supports that idea. It's still building a lot on a little. It's too bad that the OP didn't post the entire text of the article, or at least the entire text of the pertinent section of the article.
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One of the things that I took out of the brief information given about the confrontation and from the other training experiences in my LE career is this: When someone is shooting at you at very close range, you don't have the ability to make a conscious choice. That part of your brain is out of operation at that moment. The good guy in this case went one handed instead of two. This was not a choice but simply a reaction. The same will happen with the use of the sights. His mammilian (mid-brain) had taken over and he was powerless to make any sort of decision while being shot. Once time and distance are established and gunfire is no longer striking you or very near you, I think you can make some choices.
I train to use the sights most of the time but I believe with 100% certainty that if I have to shoot someone who is shooting at me or is pulling a gun for that purpose, at distances of around 10-15 yards or less, I will not see the sights. I know this because it's happened to me on numerous occassions while conducting Force on Force Simmunitions training. Despite the bazillions of rounds of sighted fire I've shot, my experience is that I focus exclusively on the target trying to shoot me and not on sights. A SWAT commander and trainer named Randy Watt confirmed that this is likely to happen to alot of officers in an experiment he conducted a couple of years ago. In that experiment, sighted fire shooters outshot point shooters on static targets(no surprise). When participants were put in a position where someone started shooting them with Simunitions while they engaged a target (with live guns and ammo), the sighted fire shooters still outshot the point shooters even though not a single sighted fire advocate could remember seeing his sights while being shot at. Why? When you train to use your sights, you are training your body to put the gun in the right place. When being shot at, the gun is still lining up just like it has many many times, whether you see the sights or not. It makes perfect sense to me. |
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Just the fact (if it is a fact) that he drew his weapon and returned fire, is fairly impressive in and of itself.
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