Point Shooting

[GeorgiaShooter]

I removed some of my comments because I just realized it 's not productive for me to be defending this basic method, which evolves quite a bit as seen in later Paladin videos. Where they blend styles based on the distance. Never the less this basic crude simple method works with unparalled speed and accuracy under 20 feet for people with very little pro training. Both my wife and I with snubbys can nail 5" targets under 20ft consistently with two shots under 2 sec and we're not pros. I'm sold.

[jreese46]

Well, those are controlled pairs, not double taps. Double taps, for Hoplite's question, would do you virtually no good from that distance. One might hit, and the other, at 50 yards, would sail by.

Double taps are two shots fired in rapid succession, having aimed only the first time. Controlled pair are two semi-rapid shots, with the acquisition of a fresh sight picture for the second shot.

Close-in, for "oh sh** shooting" double taps are fine, but with distance comes new sight picture

[frantahouska]

tracer bullets.cool.

[Hoplite51]

Hoping not to be insulting to anyone but why do demonstrations of this sort of shooting always seem to be at about 1/4 the speed and 1/4 accuracy needed to be combat effective.

Hoplite51

[Defendu]

This is the intro to an instruction video from the 1940s. It's to demonstrate the integration of sighted and unsighted shooting, and all the shots were aimed at center mass.

There are several full speed point shooting demos at sweatnbullets' channel.

[Hoplite51]

An intellegent question is never inslting.

Less than 25% of the hits are in the area on can exect to produce rapid incapication - even with a rifle, let alone a pistol.

1/4 speed is also a hard number, but approximate. Typically, from the moment of starting the firing stroke it is running around 1 second to 2 seconds in this and associated videos.

1/4 to 1/2 second at the same ranges is fairly easy to obtain using the sights.

Excellent question.

Hoplite51

[EvIlducky5]

@Hoplite51

The military teaches in different paces; you can't expect to go combat speed your first time trying a new technique or method. Part of the reason they train so much is so they can fire at the speed an accuracy to be combat effective.

[GeorgiaShooter]

@Hoplite51 Keep telling yourself that and maybe after a million times it might become true. Point shoot is pure deadly. Remember these are troop trainees in this film produced with Applegate in the 40s. I real combat, you wont be able to use all your fancy training. Besides even I have no issues clobbering the bull with this method and the delivery is faster than even pros can sight up. At under 20 feet even in the dark you can slam with this method within 3 inch bull. Paladin press.

[Hoplite51]

@GeorgiaShooter

Actually the "fancy training" is used in the military and by survey used successfully several thousand times in combat the last 10 years by our students. Col. Applegate was a fine, honest and upright fella...but his system let him down the only time he chose to tell us about using it himself (5 hits no results - poor hits center mass doesn't always work as well as some seem to think).

I grew up a point shooter, I teach soldiers and cops something better for survival.

Hoplite

[utuebcollector]

Where can I order a video of this one please ?

[Defendu]

Paladin Press sells a video titled "Point Shooting: Battle-Proven Methods Of Combat Handgunning". It's a reprint of a WWII era point shooting instructional, with an added intro by Col. Rex Applegate.