Matthew Temkin
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No matter how often it is stated that point shooting is a compliment--not a replacement--to sighted shooting, some still claim that we are advising against the use of the sights.
Rather than, once again, clarifying this myth, allow me to quote two of the main sources....
"The training course must be balanced, with equal emphasis on the aimed shot and on combat type training...After initial familiarization and training on the target range, the shooter should be required to shoot regularly a balanced program of both types of shooting as long as he remains on the active list"...( pg 105 Kill or Get Killed)
" In training groups of men in combat firing, it is very important that the proper introduction be given. in the introductory phase, the differences between target firing and combat firing must be clearly defined. Each must be put in it's proper perspective.
it must be stressed that each way of firing complements the other, to make the ideal hand gun user." ( pg 123, KOGK.)
"Such devices would be impractical for the training system which we advocate, and this will be clear if we add that we have to make provisions for such differing demands as two handed shooting at 25 yards, hip shooting at practically point blank range and practices which entail running at full speed a certain distance down the range in order to fire at several suddenly appearing moving targets." ( pg 67, Shooting to Live.)
While we are at it, how about:
"Criminals favor darkness or semi darkness fort he exercise of their talents, and a large proportion of the shooting affrays in which the police are concerned take place under precisely those conditions.
We venture to suggest that every man who has to use a pistol in the course of duty should learn how to do so in the dark." ( pgs 63-64, STL)
So---the intergration of point and aimed fire, the need to sprint toward the sound of the guns ( as in Active Shooter) and the advice to learn low light skills...
All preached decades before most of us--even yours truly--were ever born.
Rather than, once again, clarifying this myth, allow me to quote two of the main sources....
"The training course must be balanced, with equal emphasis on the aimed shot and on combat type training...After initial familiarization and training on the target range, the shooter should be required to shoot regularly a balanced program of both types of shooting as long as he remains on the active list"...( pg 105 Kill or Get Killed)
" In training groups of men in combat firing, it is very important that the proper introduction be given. in the introductory phase, the differences between target firing and combat firing must be clearly defined. Each must be put in it's proper perspective.
it must be stressed that each way of firing complements the other, to make the ideal hand gun user." ( pg 123, KOGK.)
"Such devices would be impractical for the training system which we advocate, and this will be clear if we add that we have to make provisions for such differing demands as two handed shooting at 25 yards, hip shooting at practically point blank range and practices which entail running at full speed a certain distance down the range in order to fire at several suddenly appearing moving targets." ( pg 67, Shooting to Live.)
While we are at it, how about:
"Criminals favor darkness or semi darkness fort he exercise of their talents, and a large proportion of the shooting affrays in which the police are concerned take place under precisely those conditions.
We venture to suggest that every man who has to use a pistol in the course of duty should learn how to do so in the dark." ( pgs 63-64, STL)
So---the intergration of point and aimed fire, the need to sprint toward the sound of the guns ( as in Active Shooter) and the advice to learn low light skills...
All preached decades before most of us--even yours truly--were ever born.
