As with so many things, Jeff Cooper was way ahead of his time when he articulated his idea about the “flash sight picture”. He didn’t like point shooting (to put it mildly), but realized that a defensive shooting situation also did not allow a leisurely process to acquire a perfect sight picture.
Aside from trick shooters, cowboy action shooters, and others who spend serious time practicing have demonstrated that point shooting “works”, at least under controlled circumstances.
But getting even a crude sight picture at close distances really is the most practical solution. After all, every bullet you fire has your name tattooed on it, and you’re accountable for whatever damage it may do.
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I have never found myself having leisure time in a firefight. Still, putting the reticle/dot/ front sight post in a threat had to be done, deliberately and quickly.
I believe that most folks who practice with guns have never and likely will never (hopefully) have to use one for real.
Finding waldo and your sight reference point quickly is a tedious but needful thing to be done. Be assured, if you don’t find both relatively quickly, he may just find you, even if he and his method of fire is spray and pray.
While not scriptural, the adage of “God helps those who find their front sight” really is truth.
Certainly muscle memory and psycho- motor skills can make it appear that a person isn’t using his sights, but those who go down the dark paths know better.
Yes, I know also that I can remove my sights and still hit at reasonablecrange. But I can do so much better faster and more precisely with at least a front sight post.
Sigh, age now demands I use optics as my presbyopia makes it nearly impossible to focus on a post at arms length. I still rely on a tall post to assist in acquiring the dot, but that may just a factor related to the secobd paragraph above- training and magic stuff tgst happens between the ears and fingertips....
Shoot straight, then fast.