Point Shooting Practice

[Kyle Reese]

This concentration on the front sight is essential as a shooter’s skills improve. However, once a shooter has become competent enough to reliably place rounds on target, a different approach should be tried. I am referring to something called “point” or “instinctive” shooting. Basically, it’s shooting without using the sights at all.

Point shooting can be remarkably accurate. I consistently make headshots on IDPA targets out to about 10 yards using this method.

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[JV_]

I'd like to see him make consistent head shots at 10Y without using his sights.

[BaiHu]

No video?

[Chuck Haggard]

Wasn't that the same guy trashing AIWB carry?

[Kyle Reese]

Wasn't that the same guy trashing AIWB carry?

Yup.

[Chuck Haggard]

Did he take extra derp pills this past month or what?

[Jeep]

Well, I'm happy for him, but I can't make consistent head shots while point shooting at five yards. I do think point shooting is a necessary skill very close in (which I regard is maybe 10 feet or less), and perhaps there are some very talented people who can make amazing point shots on a consistent basis but I can't, and I doubt most people can either.

Sights are a good thing.

[joshs]

I'd like to see him make consistent head shots at 10Y without using his sights.

He's probably talking about a 6x6 head, not a 3x5; which I think is relatively easy to hit with taped over sights during slow-fire as he describes in the article. I'm not sure what the practical benefit of slow-fire shooting is with the sight's taped, since it's just slower than actually using the sights because you're just aiming with a coarser sight picture by using the whole gun. A true index-based shot at speed to a 10 yard head shot is definitely more difficult, but I don't think it's outside the realm of what a lot of good shooters can do.

[okie john]

From the article:

My personal favorite is XS 24/7 Express Big Dot sights...(snip)...these ride on all of my dedicated carry guns.

Sigh...


Okie John

[Chuck Haggard]

I actually ran Big Dots for several years, because seeing some sort of front sight is important, even it it's a big fat white dot.

This is a stock G17 with Big Dots hitting B/C steel at the 125;






Can't do that point shooting...............