Who does Point-Aim shooting?

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 9/8/2016 | J Hines

[w1n1]

In the sport of Western Mounted Shooting, where shooting takes place on a horse while moving takes great skills – not just in riding and maintaining a stable base. But in shooting itself, you have to master the point-aim method, because there's no time to take aim and get your sight alignment as you would do while stationary. This type of shooting is so dominant it's maybe one of the most realistic ways to train for that fast instinctive shooting while in a real gunfight. Many people practice shooting with sight alighment, but how many of you do the old point-aim shooting? I'll let you decide from that last statement, meanwhile take a look at this video to see instinctive shooting in action.

[DJ Taylor]

Your Rifle Quick Kill reminded me of our quick kill training during the Vietnam War when we were taught to “Point and Shoot,” and I often wondered how it was that when we met the Viet Cong face-to-face in the jungle, they always beat us to the draw.

It was toward the end of the war when I was training Viet Cong and NVA deserters who had come over to our side (Chieu Hois) to use our “Point and Shoot” techniques that I found out they had been trained differently. They had been taught when in face to face encounters in the jungle to use a “Shoot and Point” technique. They would go on full automatic when they saw you and come across you shooting thereby getting the first shot advantage.

[progunner]

I wish all on this thread would actually read your response because you hit the truth. First off, there was no muzzle lift from any shots proving that there were no projectiles exiting the barrel. Secondly, each shot sounded exactly like a round fired without a powder charge,,,, only an ignited primer. Thirdly,,,, your right on the cash. I wouldn’t want to be in front of a gun firing blanks,,,, you WILL need a doctor.

[going hot]

There is a method to improve the hit ratio.

Go out to the range, use a large target to enable printing of most of the shots, and rapidly bring up the firearm, point and shoot, not taking time to align the sights or otherwise aim.

Then, holding your grip hand still, especially the wrist, use your other hand to adjust the firearm so that when it is fired it hits closer and closer to the target center.

It takes a while to get it right, but it definitely makes an improvement.

The firing/gripping hand simply learns the new hold position.

It does not take too much of a positional change.

I was always shooting to the right when I point fired my .45.

I learned to place my thumb directly on the mag release button, slightly rotating the gun to the left. This lined up the slide with my thumb and wrist rather than my pointing fingers.

Now my snap shooting at 7 yards is mostly nines and tens.