Point shooting
Point shooting is also a technique used by trained archers and marksmen to improve general accuracy when using a bow, crossbow, firearm or other ranged weapon.
With sustained practice, a shooter can develop a subconscious hand-eye coordination utilizing proprioceptive reflex, minimizing the concentration required for effective shooting.
[4] The one thing that point shooting methods have in common is that they do not rely on the sights, and they strive to increase the shooter's ability to hit targets at short range under the less-than-ideal conditions expected in close quarters, life-threatening situations, self-defense, and combat situations.
[32]Further the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Publication on Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain (MOUT) states:Pointing Quick Fire.
Point shooting is often included in military tactical training, alongside other topics such as combatives and urban warfare.
For one hand shooting, the gun is held in a low ready position and on center of the body, and with the wrist and arm locked.
Another of Applegate's training innovations was the use of particularly intense combat firing ranges, which he called the "house of horrors".
A cross between an obstacle course, a haunted house, and a shooting range, it used a three dimensional layout with stairs and tunnels, pop-up targets, deliberately poor lighting, psychologically disturbing sounds, simulated cobwebs and bodies, and blank cartridges being fired towards the shooter.
Five hundred men with no previous handgun shooting experience were run through the house of horrors after standard, bullseye-type, introductory target pistol training with no gun handling instruction, and then again (with modifications in the layout) after training in Applegate's approach to point shooting and basic gun handling.
[35] Similar methods were in use as early as the 1920s and continue to this day, for example the FBI facility called Hogan's Alley.
A method of point shooting with a rifle was developed by Lucky McDaniel and taught by the US Army beginning in 1967.
The slow moving steel BB was visible in flight on sunny days, making it an inexpensive tracer round.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Robin Brown (a former student of Lucky McDaniel) popularized Pistol Quick Kill.
When presented with a target, the soldier brings the rifle up to his shoulder and quickly fires a single shot.
[40][41] The "Israeli method" is a point shooting system devised by the Israel Defense Forces for use in training personnel to use rifles, submachine guns, and handguns.
In later stages, training in the rapid acquisition of the sights is taught, as well as a more advanced method of point shooting.
Instinct shooting, referred to as "Quick Kill", was taught to the U.S. Army using rifles by Lucky McDaniel as far back as the 1960s.
Point firing, or instinctive shooting, with rifles developed as a result of direct combat experiences.
[42]: ix Chuck Klein defines instinctive combat shooting as "the act of operating a handgun by focusing on the target and instinctively coordinating the hand and mind to cause the handgun to discharge at a time and point that ensures interception of the target with the projectile.
"[43] The shooter should focus on a small point, like a button, stain or corner, not the attacker or target in general.
Additional threats and innocents who may be hurt are scanned before the decision to shoot is made, and can be seen in peripheral vision.
