Threat Focused Shooting

[Guantes]

I got to thinking about Threat Focused Shooting and some questions came to mind.

Is all Threat Focused Shooting, Point Shooting?

In other words is all unsighted shooting Point Shooting?

If so, it would seem that there are at least two catagories of point shooting, let me explain.

Visually Verified Point Shooting
This would seem to be the most prevalent type, used in QK, QF and most FSA shooting. Where the gun is within the field of view and its direction and elevation are visually verified.

Non-Visually Verified Point Shooting
Now, what about 1/2 hip or 1/4 hip (true hip shooting) where the gun may not be within the field of view. Is non-visually verified shooting, point shooting or is it instinctive directional shooting? If the body is pointed straight ahead and targets b/t say 10 & 2 o'clock are engaged from a hip shooting position where the gun is not within the field of view is this non-visually verified point shooting or instinctive directional shooting?

Don't ask me where these ideas come from.

[7677]

From 0 to 3 yards, or at what is commonly referred to as bad breathe distance, a retention techniques needs to be employed. These Techniques rely heavily on body index and need very little hand/eye coordination.

From 3 to 5 yards, most people use techniques similar to Fairbairn's "Half Hip". With the Half Hip position, I use my body's centerline as an index with my gun in my peripheral vision. This technique relies on both body index and hand/eye coordination.

From 5 to 10 yards, I use either in one handed or two-handed point shooting, which will be under the line of sight, I use my nose as the index. The person uses the index to get the gun on target and the eye/hand coordination places the on the spot where the eyes are focused on.

NOTE: The above yard estimates are not absolute and will change do to shooter and/or target movement.

Indexing will only take you so far and with all point shooting techniques there still needs to be some degree of hand to eye coordination. The further away the target is from the shooter the shooter goes from relying on indexing and more to the ability of putting rounds on the spot where the eyes are focused on. It is similar to throwing a punch but only at an increased distance. Your fist is replaced by bullets. Index alone will get hits on the target out to 10 yards however you want your point of focus and your point aim to be on the same point (hand/eye coordination).

In point shooting, the index is very important just as it is with sighted shooting. The index gets the gun on target and with point shooting eye/hand coordination places the bullet on the same spot that the eyes are focused on and with sighted shooting the index gets the gun on target and the gun is brought a little further up to the point where the eyes pick up the sights and verify the gun is on target. As the distance increases, the effectiveness of indexing and eye/hand coordination decreases. From 10 to 15 yards I used front sight/ rough sight picture to get hits.

[Guantes]

Just for clarification, do you consider index shooting a technique of point shooting or a method in itself?

Edited to add: These were more questions of description and semantics than how to/when to.

[Roundeyesamurai]

The simplest and most conclusive definition of threat-focused (point) shooting is this:

"A method of aligning the weapon with the target which relies on a hard (or primary) focus on the target, and without the use of a sighting device".

[Dave James]

Pretty much covers what I ould have posted..

Now if you really want to stir the pot,, INDEX and THREAT aren't the same:D :D

[Brownie]

You sure do ask some hard controversial questions G.;)

Should be some interesting responses besides the few good ones given already. :D

[Roundeyesamurai]

Then there's "Threat-Forkused" methods, which are simply defined as "those methods used to give somebody a motherforker of a bad day" :D