My carry weapon is a Para-Ordanance P-12 .45
Although I practice point-shoot with it because of the shorter barrel I’m not effective over 15 feet....
Now when I use my Ruger Police Service Six .357 revolver, I’m highly accurate out to 30 feet.....
Unfortunately, it’s not highly concealable...
I use point-shoot with my revolver. In W.TX, it is the best option with snakes and when considering “jack-a-lope” stew.
Otherwise, I use my Sweet-16 for quail and doves.
I think the NYPD uses point aim shooting technique, they sure aren’t using their sights.
You know they use black powder blanks in this competition? “Mounted shooting uses black powder theatrical blanks with no bullet.[13] Companies such as Western Stage Props, Buffalo Blanks, Circle E Blanks, Lonesome Pine, and Whitehouse Blanks, manufacture certified ammunition for competition. These blanks were originally used in movie production and on the theatrical stage so that flame and smoke can be seen from the muzzle of the firearm. This burning powder will break a balloon target out to approximately twenty feet.[4]”
I remember reading of an old western lawman who used point and aim with a Peacemaker. And he was good!
Then he went modern and bought a 1903 Colt auto pistol. When accosted by a troublemaker he drew his pistol and found point and aim made his shots go into the legs of his attacker, not the body.
He said the only thing good about the altercation is the troublemaker had to have his legs removed.
pure instinct shooting is the way I learned to hunt quail.
First have to overcome the startle associated with the sound of flushing the quail. Then look at target, instinctly pull the gun to shoulder and fire. No tracking with the barrel. Snap shooting. Only way, because everything happens so quickly.
Friend sent this to me several years ago:
Kendra Lenseigna 2009 World Champion Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association “History Maker”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmvDAjpCEAAUrn_.jpg
appropriate for this discussion
From the book “No Second Place Winner” by Bill Jordan:
“...BILL JORDAN is the fastest man on the draw that I have ever seen in action. He has been practicing the quick draw for thirty years that I know of. You can get pretty sharp at slapping leather after three decades of practice. Bill can hold a ping pong ball on top of his hand, bare inches above the holstered gun, suddenly drop the ball, go for his shooting iron and blast the ball as it falls past the holster. You’ve got to be fast to do that.
What maybe makes more of an impression on me than his lightning draw is his point shooting accuracy. As a regular feature of a shooting exhibition he draws, shoots from the hip double action, and hits aspirin pills neatly lined up on a table some ten feet in front of him. And, if this was not enough, he winds up the amazing exhibition by splitting a playing card edgeways! Most fellows could not hit these tiny targets if they took deliberate aim and squeezed the trigger! Jordan says he can “feel” the gun point at these peewee targets. It appears to the slightly goggle-eyed onlooker that his .357 must have built-in radar!...”
Full book: https://archive.org/details/No_Second_Place_Winner_Bill_Jordan
A 3x4 200 lb. buck was crossing left to right at about 12 MPH at 25 yards.
There’s no aiming going on.
I let my pheasant hunting instincts take over, panned with the scope and barrel, and led the chest cavity by “about” 12 inches.
Drilled it in the heart.
I’ll take instinct and luck, sometimes.
