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Updated 8/29/07

Point Shooting / Instinct Shooting

This will be a growing repository for links to Point Shooting and Instinct Shooting articles on the web.  I learned to point shoot as a kid and refined these skills over the years.  Today I actively train my students in this type of shooting with handgun, rifle and shotgun.  In just a few hours of practice we regularly have people hitting hand-thrown soda cans out of the air and hitting ground targets without ever once using the sights.

Outdoor practice is done with BB guns and then regular firearms.  Indoor practice is done with Airsoft, as are others drills where the target is shooting back at us.  We pass on shooting skills in the curriculum as they relate to defense, in the same way that one has to learn to fight with a knife to defend against a knife.  You have to know how to draw to see the ways to counter the draw, and know how to shoot so you can better avoid being shot.

There is a lot more to the study of close range counter firearms work than just knowing a few Kuhroddy gun disarms.  Especially for the martial arts teachers out there, we feel this is important. My friend told me about a seminar where the person teaching gun defenses later admitted they didn't even know how load or shoot a pistol!  The Sensei didn't like guns you see...

Comtech Instinctive Shooting Method
8-25-07 Seminar Report by Chris Seaman & Lily Gold

Point Shooin' Pontification
Older article about teaching a friend's son point shooting one afternoon

Legend of the Quick Kill
Article by my teacher Master at Arms James Keating on quick kill shooting as he learned it
 


Point Shooting / Instinctive Shooting / Snap Shooting Links

These first two articles are both reprints that are webbed by well-known author Kurt Saxon's site. He has put together some fine books on survival, weaponry, and 19th century living skills, including a ton of "at home chemestry" and shop work. Check out these articles and then check out some of Kurt Saxon's books - you'll be glad you did!

Debunking the Debunkers
By E.B. Mann
American Rifleman, Jan. 1944
&
Instinct Shooting:
Self-Protection For Anyone


AIMED Point Shooting or P&S
Point shooting information and sighting / finger / wrist control systems

Dry-Fire Training Pistols
They guarantee any shooter who trains with the Dry-Fire Training Pistol 10 minutes per day for 10 days will see a 20 point increase in their shooting score, or return the pistol for your money back!

Instinct Shooting
Another article about QK shooting


Point Shooting Course Outline
From the LUBRINCO Group.

Practical Firearms Training with Airguns
Decent article discussing general concepts

The Quick Kill Program - Daisy's Contribution to National Defense
Awesome old photos and history of the Daisy BB guns that went to war

Shoot to Live
Fairbairn's classic text on pistol shooting

TIME Magazine article from 1967 about Quick Kill
Vietnam era Quick Kill training explored in this article from TIME

Training with Lucky McDanniel
A personal recollection from the author about training with Lucky

10 Waterfowl Shooting Tips
Advice for point shooting's hunting brethren

What IS Point Shooting?
Excellent article with info on many styles of point and instinctive shooting



Old Time Shooting Links

Bad Hombres
A site about outlaws, gunmen, lawmen and those that fit in between.

Cowboy Action Shooting
CAS is now a well established shooting sport using pistol, rifle, and shotgun in scenario shooting!

Gunfighter Zone
Gear, books, posters, videos, free articles, all kinds of stuff on old West gunslingers!

Kansas Gunfighters
Tons of information and photos of old West gunfighters!

Kid Curry
Outlaw Gunslinger turned Good Guy!

Single Action Shooting Society
The oldest organization doing cowboy shooting.

Wild West Renegades, Rebels, & Rogues
More Outlaws and Lawmen!

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