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In my view, the first principle of accurate shooting is trigger control: a smooth, press straight back on the trigger with only the trigger finger moving. Maintain your focus on the front sight as you press the trigger, increasing pressure on the trigger until the shot breaks. Don't try to predict exactly when the gun will go off nor try to cause the shot to break at a particular moment. This is what Jeff Cooper called the "surprise break."
Whether you hold the gun with one hand or two, and whether you use the sights or point shooting techniques to direct the muzzle of the gun in line with the particular part of the target you want to hit, whether you're on your knees, leaning around a barricade, squatting, on your belly, or in some other unusual position, if you have trigger control, your muzzle will be in line with the part of the target you want to hit when the bullet leaves the barrel of your gun -- and you will hit. But if you don't have trigger control, you will jerk the gun off target as you fire -- and you will miss.
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