Draw!

[ripcurlksm]

After a few days of practicing and dry-firing with my Kimber I finally brought my holster to the range last night. For the first time I tried point and shoot firing, keeping both my eyes open and it was pretty intuitive for me..I did pretty good at 10 yards. Lots of practice still needed but I can see how point and shoot training really is valuable in a pinch....and really when are you gonna draw when your not in a pinch?

 

[Firehand]

Back in the Devonian Age when my father first taught me handguns, up close(defense shooting) he taught me hipshooting; as Bill Jordan showed in his book, the further away the bad guy the further you extend your hands for accuracy. Fast and, with practice, very accurate.

I've noticed that when I practice firing while moving(forward & back, side to side), especially when the light's not good, experience with point-shooting is very valuable: I think for anyone, especially so if your eyes don't focus as fast between close & far as they used to .

 

[JMusic]

I would recomend to anyone interested in point shooting to research this subject. Plenty of good information right here on THR. Point shooting can be a contraversial subject.

If you are new to this I would be careful practicing prior to knowing what to practice. You don't want to have bad habits that are difficult to eliminate. 10 yards is way to far to start off in. I would recomend starting at 3-5 yds. Hip shooting is called elbow up/ elbow down in some point shooting disiplines. Learning this technique properly will improve your point shooting greatly. Reasearch topics by Brownie, Mathew Tempkin, 7677, as all instruct in this disipline. Keep the faith.

Jim