That’s sort of the same “theory” behind thumbs forward these days as well. I get it in a way but not sure if that is 100% eitherIf you point your finger at something, without looking, the finger will line up on the object, just as a pistol would. The grip angle of the 1873 Peacemaker, and the grip angle of the 1911 are the same angle from your hand and index finger. While repeated shots might miss (for me maybe) it is entirely possible to hit on the first shot. I am not a great shot, but I am a decent shot, and with a single action I have hip shot rabbits, and cans. Wild Bill Hickock used 1851 Navy pistols, the grip angle is like the 1873, so quick draw, hip shots, whatever you call them are possible. There was a video with G.Gordon Liddy, shooting rapid fire from the hip with a revolver, it was taught, and can be done. Is it practical? not always, but for a first shot, and with training, it is possible...plus it does look cool.
I have had quite a few folks tell me that right-handed, left-eyed is just WRONG. They seem to understand much better when I tell them the alternative is random, unaimed shooting. I've been blind in my right eye for more than 30 years. I struggle mightily with depth perception, but I can see a post in a notch just fine, with my left eye.I shoot weaver stance I am left eye dominant and right handed. It works best for me I don’t care what the interwebs say. I also have a light on my carry pistol take a low light class and see why.
I have only drawn my pistol in anger twice. Once in Afghanistan then in Iraq we thought we found a tunnel so I was gonna go full tunnel rat. This was not smart I am not a small dude turned out to be a septic tank.
FIBS = Flying Inflatable Boat Squadron?The first one to score a meaningful hit on there opponents usually win the gunfight. Speed is of the essence but not at the sacrifice of accuracy. If your gonna do it you better be good at it.
That FIBS Thing is real
I hate to be the party-pooper, but this is only part of the story. I'll give you MOST upper spinal cord hits will incapacitate quickly, and MOST brain shots will incapacitate quickly. Quickly is relative. At C5 and below, the victim is still able to breathe, pump blood, and possibly even use arms and legs; hardly an end to the threat. A good brain shot, with a high-velocity expanding bullet will almost certainly end the fight, quickly. A poorly placed brain shot with less disruptive round is quite survivable.If you hit a vital structure (heart, great vessels, upper spinal cord, brain) with any of the Common Defensive Handgun Calibers (.38Spl/9mm up to .45), one vital hit will stop an attacker about 85% of the time, so two vital hits should stop almost all the rest."
I hate to be the party-pooper, but this is only part of the story. I'll give you MOST upper spinal cord hits will incapacitate quickly, and MOST brain shots will incapacitate quickly. Quickly is relative. At C5 and below, the victim is still able to breathe, pump blood, and possibly even use arms and legs; hardly an end to the threat. A good brain shot, with a high-velocity expanding bullet will almost certainly end the fight, quickly. A poorly placed brain shot with less disruptive round is quite survivable.
The heart and large vessels are another story entirely. With those shots, incapacitation comes when blood pressure and or oxygen levels no longer support consciousness. Make no mistake, I am saying directly, even a good shot with good ammo, right through the left ventricle, does not incapacitate quickly. "QUICKLY" meaning an immediate end to the fight. Fatal? Almost certainly. Quicky enough that the shot alone takes the victim out of the fight? Not likely. Even if the attacker can only maintain the fight for only 10 seconds to 2 or 3 minutes, you are still in very large pile of doo-doo. Which means you need to stay in the fight until it is over... completely.
I've never drawn my gun in anger. I hope I never have to. In the event that I do, at sometime, come to that conclusion, you can bet your sweet bippy I'm not going to fire one round and hope my attacker gives up. You have signed up for whatever capacity I am carrying. The only way out is excuse yourself from the fight. Run, throw the gun and give up, fall down and/or die, I have no interest in which. As long as you are still vertical and holding a lethal weapon, close enough to make it effective, rest assured, I'm still pulling the trigger.
My guess is that any hip-shooters engaging a deadly threat, used the hip-shot(s) to get rounds downrange quickly, and just as quickly followed up those shots with more effective aimed fire.
FIBS = Flying Inflatable Boat Squadron?
FIBS: That’s what cheese heads call Illinois people. That and “flat landers”
The first one to score a meaningful hit on there opponents usually win the gunfight. Speed is of the essence but not at the sacrifice of accuracy. If your gonna do it you better be good at it.
That FIBS Thing is real
It basically comes down to 'Some can do it...other's cannot!' It's the same for shooting, period!If you point your finger at something, without looking, the finger will line up on the object, just as a pistol would. The grip angle of the 1873 Peacemaker, and the grip angle of the 1911 are the same angle from your hand and index finger. While repeated shots might miss (for me maybe) it is entirely possible to hit on the first shot. I am not a great shot, but I am a decent shot, and with a single action I have hip shot rabbits, and cans. Wild Bill Hickock used 1851 Navy pistols, the grip angle is like the 1873, so quick draw, hip shots, whatever you call them are possible. There was a video with G.Gordon Liddy, shooting rapid fire from the hip with a revolver, it was taught, and can be done. Is it practical? not always, but for a first shot, and with training, it is possible...plus it does look cool.
If you tuck your chin to your right shoulder you can adjust your stance.I shoot weaver stance I am left eye dominant and right handed. It works best for me I don’t care what the interwebs say. I also have a light on my carry pistol take a low light class and see why.
I have only drawn my pistol in anger twice. Once in Afghanistan then in Iraq we thought we found a tunnel so I was gonna go full tunnel rat. This was not smart I am not a small dude turned out to be a septic tank.