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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!
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