Which handgun point shoots/hipfires the best for you? I tried SAA, 1911, Glock

1911s for me, although I do almost as well with most of the handguns I have owned.

The video is Daniel Horner explaining and demonstrating instinctive/point shooting.



I do this and a couple of other similar drills every week. The gist of it is to keep your eyes on the target and trust your brain to tell your body what to do.
 
Prolly whatever I've been shooting most recently. I'll put a softball size group in the 7 ring of a B27 at 5 yards with about anything.
I'm not sure which has had more influence on this thousands of rounds thru various plow handle single actions, 1911s, Ruger and Smith DAs or the hours spent practice drawing and indexing the sights for Cowboy Action, USPSA and IDPA or 30+ years with a rivet gun and drill motor in my hands.
Come to think of it bet I could shoot the set out of an E5 rivet gun and ring a 10-12" steel plate at 5 yards easily too.
 
Any handgun with a grip and trigger reach length that fit my hand. In point shooting you are really pointing your forearm at the target. The gun barrel should be parallel to the forearm without canting the wrist. On something like the Beretta 92, the DA trigger reach is a little too far for me if the barrel is lined up with my forearm.
 
kidneyboy said:
1911s for me, although I do almost as well with most of the handguns I have owned.

The video is Daniel Horner explaining and demonstrating instinctive/point shooting.



I do this and a couple of other similar drills every week. The gist of it is to keep your eyes on the target and trust your brain to tell your body what to do.
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I guess I’m screwed unless I switch and shoot left handed. I’m right handed but left eye dominant.
 
Haven't tried hip shooting, thanks to the ranges I have nearby.
But as far as quick point shooting, the CZ75-based line. Particularly the compacts, I won't be putting out an eye without time (and a magazine to settle in) but I can put them all into a standard target at 7 yards without thinking about it or using the sights. Maybe further, but that would be slower.
I haven't gotten to try farther than 25 yards, but can do that with the sights without a problem.
 
BHP points for me as if I developed around it in the womb.

CZ 75 for my spouse, my longest buddy, and my martial arts instructor.

1911 for more folks I've shot with or taught.

IOW, what fits hits.
 
entropy said:
So, am I. Doesn't seem to kick in at handgun range, but if I don't partially shut my left eye shotgunning, I tend to mis more often.
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I shoot long guns lefty, but was never instructed to do handguns also. I tried switching but it seemed a lot of work for really no practical benefit compared to turning my head an inch :)
 
I used to, about 30-40 years ago, be able to pull one of my Dan Wesson 15-2's with the 4" barrel on it and shoot all six full powered .357 carts in the center of a target at 20 feet without aiming. Now I have to aim to do that, and after about 4 cylinders of that stuff, my hands say, "Go Home old man!". They ache the rest of the day. I can shoot 9mm all day long from any of my larger guns without the pain of my .357 revolvers. I haven't shot .44 mag in a long time, and I have a box sitting next to my 629-1, and one of these days, I'm going to see how bad it is to shoot.
 
For hip shooting, I found I was better with a 4" GP100 than anything else I tried. I read No Second Place Winner a few times, and the concept of a heavy barrel out front to "feel" where the gun was pointing made a lot of sense. It also worked well in practice, when paired with a decisive snap at the end of the presentation.
 
1911 with an arched mainspring housing. What I've been shooting for more years than any other handgun, go figure. Can shoot decent groups at closer ranges with both eyes closed. Browning Hi-Power points naturally for me as well, but I never fell in love with one.

Never practiced "hip-shooting" (like Marshal Dillon in the opening scene of old black and white episodes of Gunsmoke), but have trained to draw, rotate while indexing hand at waist to shoot an adversary off me/at contact distances for the situation where time and distance don't allow for completing draw, point-shooting or aimed fire. In this case, the actual design or model of handgun probably doesn't make a difference...
 
Just for fun I loaded 6 into my Uberti SAA, stood at the 5 yard line, and held my elbow tighter against my body and extended the gun further in front. I didn't drop the gun to a resting position between shots. Hit all six shots center mass in about a 4" group. LOL

I can't prove it though as the camera wasn't rolling.
 
1KPerDay said:
I shoot long guns lefty, but was never instructed to do handguns also. I tried switching but it seemed a lot of work for really no practical benefit compared to turning my head an inch :)
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1KPerDay said:
Just for fun I loaded 6 into my Uberti SAA, stood at the 5 yard line, and held my elbow tighter against my body and extended the gun further in front. I didn't drop the gun to a resting position between shots. Hit all six shots center mass in about a 4" group.
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Practice makes perfect.

Deliberate practice makes more perfect. :D

1KPerDay said:
I guess I’m screwed unless I switch and shoot left handed. I’m right handed but left eye dominant.
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Eyes closed point shooting synchronizing POI with POA will take care of that issue. ;)

After synchronization, just focus on target and wait for holes to appear at POA. :)
 
1KPerDay said:
I guess I’m screwed unless I switch and shoot left handed. I’m right handed but left eye dominant.
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Your eyes are only a few inches apart. About the width of your hands when gripping the pistol. The sights aren't being used in this drill so left or right eye dominant only determines where you hold the firearm.
 
For me it was always the K frame S&W pistols. Nothing has ever come as close for me.
 
I dont do the quick draw shoot from the hip thing, other than the close contact drill which requires the arm close to the body, so in that context my commentary isnt valid. But, insofar as the most natural feeling handgun, it's all 1860 colt army .44 for me. I used and carried one form or another of 1911 for decades and thought ok, this is it. It setteled out I was wrong. Dept issued glock 22.
I actually dont like glock handguns for a variety of reasons, but I shoot it much better than my favorites the 1911. So currently dislikes aside that is now the handgun I use nearly everyday, aside from a little smith 637 when Im at work on the farm.
 
Several times a year we did these drills at monthly SRT qualifiers; facing the target, right turn, left turn, 180 turn, etc. The Gen 4,Glock 34 I carried for ages became a natural draw-and-pointer for me, probably because I shot it hundreds of times like that. :)

Stay safe.
 
At a Cowboy Action shoot, "The Rifleman" was the rifle part of the stage. 10 shots @ 15 yards on a 30" round gong.



It was not easy. Nobody was 10 for 10. It was a fun shoot, though. 8 of 10 was achieved a few times. 6 was average. 2 hits was lowest score.
 
Natural pointer for me from the hip has always been the original frame .357 Ruger Blackhawks. But, I must digress. I had a 6" Smith and Wesson Model 10 circa 1979, "hog wallow" sights. Trigger pull from the company I could walk shotgun shells all across the ground at 7 paces from the hip with 148 grain wad cutters all day long and rarely miss. Even firing rapid fire double action. I felt like Ed McGivern. Why...Why...Why..did I let that one get away.
 
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