The Point-Shooting Myth

You gotta wonder how many people who reference Fairbairn & Sykes have ever read the source material. Shooting to Live With the One-Hand Gun is available at BezosMart, you know.

Check this post out over at The Tactical Professor:

We need to keep in mind what Fairbairn and Sykes wrote their system was capable of, i.e., their performance standards. The hits had to be somewhere on the entire silhouette target; whether the legs were included is not explicitly stated but neither was it disavowed. The shooting distance of their Programme did not exceed 4 yards at any point and nearly half took place at 2 yards.

“The qualification we require before the recruit’s course can be successfully passed is 50 per cent. of hits anywhere on the man-sized targets employed. Time has shown this to be adequate for the purpose in view.”

These are standards which would be considered unusually rudimentary for any CCW "qualification" course.

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