Pure Instinct Shooting

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Anyone ever try this, I was fireforming brass for my 375 Wby yesterday and just for the hell of it I shot at the 200 mtr clanger which is 4" in Dia. No scope and no sights, and believe it or not I hit it 3 for 10 shots. My misses were by inches not feet, I have shot bow like this for most of my life and done a little with rifle, but I made a game of it as I had 50 rds to fireform and no sighting equipment on the rifle. I tried pigs at 300 mtrs and hit 1 for ten out there, but I was all over the 200 mtr clanger, it was fun and informative........
I would load 5 in the rifle and cycle about as fast as I could, point and shoot.......cycle point and shoot.........cycle point and shoot........It was a blast and I was amazed at the accuracy I was developing. The gun fits me well and I was loving the recoil which was stout, all off hand of course.
 
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I vaguely recall a shooting training system that had 'suposedly' been used for teaching and training some groups of the U.S. military during the Vietnam era. It was called quick skill or quick kill and the basis of it apparently started out by using something along the lines of a BB gun without sights and shooting at ping pong balls thrown in the air.
 
rem338win said:
I've shot pistol like that, and at one point could go 10 for 10 on a 10" square at 50 yards. It was very much like instinctive shooting with a bow.
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In Keiths book, Sixguns by Keith and another book, Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting by Ed McGivern, much has been documented on the aspect of instinctive handgun shooting. Then today, there's Bob Munden whos primary focus is quick draw but also instinctive the shooting that comes with it. Probably for many of us, our first association with instinctive shooting came slingshots.
 
That kind of shooting is actually more reasonable than many would think, provided you have lots of practice and keep ranges reasonable.

Your 200 meter clanger shots are as far as I've heard anyone trying it, but then just because people aren't doing it doesn't mean it can't be done.

My brother and I shot and hunted with bows for many years using no sights, and I have shot some game animals in very close/very quick situations using centerfire rifles. The kind of situation where suddenly there's the animal, ten feet away from you, and it goes down on the shot (fired almost as a reflex) and afterwards you realize your scope covers are still on your scope.
 
Johnn Peterson said:
In Keiths book, Sixguns by Keith and another book, Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting by Ed McGivern, much has been documented on the aspect of instinctive handgun shooting. Then today, there's Bob Munden whos primary focus is quick draw but also instinctive the shooting that comes with it. Probably for many of us, our first association with instinctive shooting came slingshots.
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Johnn; How true the latter part of your comment.

Personally, from age 5 to 13 or so, I was never without a catapult [slingshot] on my person.
I never used an aiming point, shot it entirely instinctively.

Lots of practice made those catapults a force to be reckoned with.
One winter, I collected over 100 squirrel pelts, using only that instrument.

Once we had graduated to 22 rimfires, we would go to the country dump, and shoot bottles thrown in the air.
We got to be pretty proficient at hitting them, and sights were largely ignored for that game.

It is amazing, what one can learn to do, as Doug pointed out at the beginning.

Regards, Eagleye.
 
Eagleye said:
Johnn; How true the latter part of your comment.

Personally, from age 5 to 13 or so, I was never without a catapult [slingshot] on my person.
I never used an aiming point, shot it entirely instinctively.

Lots of practice made those catapults a force to be reckoned with.
One winter, I collected over 100 squirrel pelts, using only that instrument.

Regards, Eagleye.
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Those days bring back a lot of memories:). At about the same age and at a small town in the B.C. central interior, I had many similar experiences but for me, the primary quarry was Spruce Grouse. The marbles we accumulated in early spring marble games and/or small ball bearings from the local garage was our ammo. This was in the days when todays surgical rubber was virtually nonexistent so with Dad working in the local garage, I had a corner on the market for Red Rubber innertubes and small ball bearings.

Something we found to be a more effective 'ammo' for close range shots on Fools Hens we had scared up, now perched in trees, was angled fragments of small drill cores we collected at one of the two local hardrock mine dumps. Holding the sling shot horizontal, a hit in the neck would take their heads off.

And last, in the drawer at the local RCMP office in town, there was a small collection of my handiwork, made from willow crotch and red rubber.

:redface:Sorry for hijacking the thread with the trip down memory lane.
 
Interesting. I have only done that at close range, never anything like 200M. I was comparing bare bow technique with instinctive shotgun shooting (w/o sights) and slugs. Worked pretty good then too. Will have to try it with a bare barrel rifle now just for kicks.
 
Shotgunning is fairly instinctive, of course.
Some of the fighting asian monks would have a practice of meditating with the bow drawn on target. When you were one with the Universe, the arrow would release unexpectedly and hit the center of the target.
"Firing by sense of direction" was in the British Army "Shoot to Kill" manual for the Browning 9mm (isosceles), and there was a night firing thing for the SLR where you didn't use the sights. The Stirling SMG had a thing about adjusting by fall of shot when firing from the hip.
On a visit to the Royal Ulster Constabulary range at Garnerville, much to my surprise I was instructed to fire from the hip Fairbairn-Sykes style. It was way faster than using sights :).
 
I was taught to do this kind of shooting in Atlanta, Georgia many years ago. It wasn't ping pong balls with BB's. It was BB's hitting BB's in the air.
 
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