Sharp as a Marble - I fully support Point Shooting

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I disagree with pdb and Caleb. Point Shooting is, by far, the most effective means of putting rounds on a target. The concept is simple -

Find a point where you want your bullets to go and shoot it. This may require the use of sights, though.

posted @ 8/4/2011 12:23:33 PM

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PhillipC says:

on 8/4/2011 5:02:48 PM

My dad, when he was younger, was able to point his pistol and hit wasps out of the air, if he so chose. He could do it with my B.B. gun, and he was just as accurate with his actual firearms. However, he wouldn't shoot at anything more than about twenty feet away with a pistol. Anything more than that, he'd pick up a rifle, and use sights. Strangely, he seldom carried anything larger than a .32 top-break, and generally just a .22 six shot revolver around the farm. I've seen him put down fairly large animals with that, as well as snakes, so I guess he just didn't need anything else.

What he taught me was that you needed to be so familiar with the gun you carried that you didn't need to see it, you KNEW where it was going to hit because it was a part of you.

But when I go shoot paper targets, I use the sights. I figure I don't get as much practice as he used to, so I should give myself all the chances I can.

armed partisan says:

on 8/5/2011 8:40:18 AM

Point shooting works for most people, it just that it works SLOWLY. You can point a gun at a target, and hit it, you just won't hit exactly what you're pointing at without thousands and thousands of hours of practice with one, and only one gun, and usually one load. Without that investment, you can still do it, it just won't be your first shot, which is the one that matters.

As far as I can tell, firearms are the only personal defense weapons system to ever exist that require you to violate millions of years of evolutionary biology and look AWAY from the threat and at the weapon, namely the sights, under stress. This seems totally illogical, but it's the only way to guarantee results.

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