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Originally Posted by Troy Price
For years I have been a pure "front sight focus/flash front sight " shooter. A few years ago I realized that at close contact distances I didn't need to use my sights as much as I needed to be fast. I began a training regimen where I simply brought my gun in line with my sight line and engaged the target. While it isn't as surgical as "front sight focus" it is infinitely faster.
I have made this a regular part of my training plan. I have found that I get hits, of acceptable accuracy, out to 15 yards using this method but I prefer to use my sights after 10 yards because for me that is where the "speed versus accuracy trade-off" seems to merge.
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I have not really ventured totally into "point" shooting as of now. I plan on sojourning into "point" shooting with some upcoming training I have scheduled. I train most every day (well, about 5 days a week at least 100 hits and at least 50 draw and fire (that can count toward the hits)) with a beamhit (laser training system) that has a target that is 4.25" diameter circle. Live fire is 1x every other weekend.
When you are talking about acceptable accuracy, what is your definition? I am interested in knowing if it falls inside or outside the 4.25" diamater circle.
Your answer will give me an idea if using the beamhit as-is would be a good venue for "point" shooting training. If not, I would think some custom type software/hardware system would be needed for laser training in this arena.
I am a tech-weenie code jockey/programmer and have the skills to put something like this together. At a minimum it would be a laptop w a webcam and running linux. Webcam would point at IDPA/torso target infront of a different colored wall. Custom software would be needed to analze the images processed by the webcam to determine when/where hits occurred (by the brief red beam on the static target).
It is definitely doable, but somewhat time consuming. I have responsibilities and other time commitments and am not interested in working on something that will not help me acquire/maintain self defense skills. On the other hand, if it would be useful, I really could open up my self defense training utilizing "point" shooting at a target larger than a 4.25" diameter circle.
Thanks for your input. Sorry for any amount of thread drift.