[QUOTE=11B10;1080464]I hope you have a good recovery. I am still a long way away from replacement, but I do have osteoarthritis from 30 years of running.
I suspect that the hip shooting was partially the result of the lower ride holsters that were worn at the time. Years ago on another forum, Southnarc demonstrated that once a gun is drawn from a typical present day IWB holster, the gun actually travels less distance to go to a pectoral index than it does to go to a hip index.
I have tried hip shooting, both informally on my own and as part of a training class. Shooting from hip or lower chest height - regardless of whether done with 1 or 2 hands - is difficult, highly dependent on using the same gun (or at least guns with identical grips and grip angles), and very difficult to make consistent and repeatable. I have found that making hits from a pectoral index is much simpler, repeatable, and dependable.
I have never actually had to draw a gun on another living thing, so I want to be very careful about critiquing the technique of someone like Bill Jordan, who I understand had nine gunfights in the Border Patrol and countless fights in the military. In his case, I suspect that natural ability played a huge part, as well as significant practice. At one point, he made his living demonstrating his shooting skills, which demonstrates that his skills were not something most men will ever achieve.