Old shooting techniques

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So I decided I would do some video on my youtube channel about older gun shooting techniques.

The stuff most of our grandfathers learned and used one hand. I believe that even though most are not up to stuff with our modern day techniques knowing them would pay homage to our history. The same perspective I have can be compared to civil war re enactors learning how the north and south learned how to operate their firearms and move in formation.

I did one recently on chinese gangster style shooting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9LO0z5zctA

If only I had a c96 to demonstrate. But those cost money and I'm currently on unemployment.

For awhile I have owned a copy of ed mcgivern's "fast and fancy revolver shooting" and planned to cover the techniques in there. I still believe much of the material can still be utilized well.

I had also bought a copy of "the handgunners guide" by chic gaylord. that should be arriving at the end of the week.

I also believe that two gun shooting techniques can be revived. Using two guns to hit two targets simultaneously is my life's ambition, and is only being hampered by ammo costs and availability

I would like help in this subject. To pay homage to all the years of development and so that people can learn where we come from in the way of shooting.

Maybe possibly uncover older techniques that has not outlived their usefulness.
 
McGivern's "Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting is a good book filled with a lot of information, but it is a tough read. McGivern was a sign painter not a writer. He was also a great student of revolver shooting and had (I believe) a sponsor who supplied ammunition for him. I read the book enough to have worn it out and practiced as much as I could when younger. No where near close to him on speed shooting but many of his other techniques are doable. The key is practice. It only takes time and money.
 
Two other classics that you should look for are "Shooting to Live," by Captains Fairbairn and Sykes, which was developed out of their experiences in many, many gunfights in the Shanghai Police Department from before WWI up til WWII, and "The Principles of Personal Defense," by Colonel Jeff Cooper, USMC, in which he lays out the Modern Technique of the Pistol.

The Shanghai Captains focus a good deal on point shooting. That can be a very effective technique at reasonable ranges, blindingly fast when executed by a master. The trouble with it is that it takes a degree of innate talent and a great deal of live fire practice to make it effective.

Col Cooper, on the other hand, preached the Weaver stance, flash sight picture, and a compressed surprise break to the trigger. This was revolutionary at the time, but less because it's superior to what a master can do with unsighted fire, but because it's so much easier to train a student to a reasonable level of proficiency if you do use the sights.

Point shooting's not outdated at all. It's still just as effective when mastered, and still just as fiendishly difficult to master as it ever was. Quite dependent on time, talent, and treasure.

The Modern Technique is decidedly dated, however. The Weaver stance has a number of issues that make it inferior to the Modern Isoceles, though Weaver is still easier to teach to a neophyte.

Shooting two guns isn't the world's most difficult stunt, provided you can shoot with either hand to start with. Two targets in front of you is pretty standard stuff, you just need to be able to catch both front sights in your periferal vision, rather than focusing strongly on either. I'd not try shooting dimes that way, but gallon jugs shouldn't be a stretch.

I don't have a range to try shooting targets separated 180 degrees, though I suspect the trick would be learning to keep your wobble zone inside the targets while looking back and forth.

Given your present employment status, perhaps a better way to practice than expensive live fire, or conventional dry fire, ( which doesn't provide enough feedback about where you're "hitting," to be effective with unsighted techniques) would be to try a SIRT trainer, a laser looks like a Glock.

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