Quote Originally Posted by HamburgO View Post

I do find accurate follow-up shots faster with 9 than .45 or 10...
I was going to the range fairly regularly for awhile a few years back. Haven't been for a year or so now. Anyway, in the '70s I shot NRA competition. The Camp Perry type of stuff and I got pretty good with target shooting with handguns. So for the short distances usually practiced for combat shooting I can keep the groups tight and punch them out fast.

One day I stopped by the tattoo shop on the way home from the range. One of my co-workers was tattooing a guy who was an instructor of combat shooting for the state police. I had brought a couple of targets I had shot with me to brag a little bit. The LEO looked at the target and said something like .... if you are in a combat situation and point the weapon, align the sights and squeeze the trigger, as if you are at the target range, chances are you will be dead.

Point shooting is what he teaches. Stick it out there and use instinct to mark your target. So the next time I went to the range I began to do some strings point shooting. I didn't bring any targets to the shop to brag about that day. When I do go to the range I get some practice in with that method. Much more difficult, but while I don't get tight groups , if I point center mass I am 9 times out of 10 scoring a hit.