YOUR SURVIVAL KEY - A P&S AIMING AID.


To shoot a pistol effectively, the front and rear sights must be aligned, and placed on the target correctly. And that is normally done with the use of hand-eye coordination skills. It's called Sight Shooting, and most everyone uses it when shooting on the range.

However, in most all close quarters life threat situations, Sight Shooting is not, or can not be used.

That's due to poor lighting, the dynamics of those situations, and the automatic activation of our instinctive Fight or Flight response, which results in the loss of fine motor skills and near vision, both of which are needed to align the sights and accurately place them on the target.

In a study of thousands of Police combat cases, the New York Police Department found that sight alignment was not used in 70 percent of them. Officers used instinctive or point shooting, and their overall hit rate, was less than 20%.

The web video of the 2011 Detroit Police Station Shooting in which four officers were shot, is a vivid example of what really happens in close quarters life threat situations.

Here's a U-Tube link to that video.

Here's another link to that video.

So unless you know about and use an alternative shooting method, you'll have no effective shooting method to use in those situations where there is the greatest chance of you're being shot and/or killed.

AIMED Point Shooting or P&S is one such method. It employs our instinctive ability to point accurately at things, and it can be used with the aiming aid shown below. The aiming aid provides for automatic sight alignment. And when the aid and P&S are used together, you will get fast, automatic, and accurate aiming at close quarters.



The aiming aid can be used with pistols, assault rifles, sub machine guns, paintball guns, airsoft guns, and even toy guns.

Here's how it works.


Since it and the sights are in alignment, when the index finger is placed against it, you will get automatic and correct sight alignment.


Then, if you point at a target, you'll also get fast, automatic, and accurate target engagement.


Here's what the US Army says about our natural ability to point fast and accurately:

"Everyone has the ability to point at an object.

"When a soldier points, he instinctively points at the feature on the object on which his eyes are focused. An impulse from the brain causes the arm and hand to stop when the finger reaches the proper position.

"When the eyes are shifted to a new object or feature, the finger, hand, and arm also shift to this point.

"It is this inherent trait that can be used by a soldier to rapidly and accurately engage targets."


The NRA also recommends Point Shooting. This is from Chapter 9 of the NRA Guide To The Basics Of Personal Protection In The Home: "...the ability to keep all shots on a standard 8 1/2 inch by 11 inch sheet of paper at seven yards, hitting in the center of exposed mass, is sufficient for most defensive purposes."


The Guide also states "...real-life violent encounters occur at very close range, often in reduced-light conditions, and are over in a matter of seconds. One study of Police shootings in a major urban area showed that the majority of encounters took place after dark, at 3 yards or less, in less than 3 seconds, and involved the firing of an average of three shots."

It goes on to say: "Often, either the assailant or the defender - or both - are moving rapidly during the encounter. Such conditions do not permit the careful alignment of the sights on a specific aiming point on the target."

Fast and accurate aiming is critical to your survival in close quarters life threat situations, because if you're going to be shot or killed, there is an 80% chance that it will happen at less than 20 feet.

So, using the aiming aid and your natural ability to point/aim fast and accurately, makes life over death sense.


The key to fast and accurate aiming of each shot, is to place your index finger aqainst the aiming aid, and keep it there.

The aid keeps your index finger away from the slide when the gun is jumping and bucking with rapid firing.

All you need to do is point and pull, point and pull. No more, no less.

This method can be learned with little or no training, and it is easily maintained.

It also works when moving and shooting, and when shooting aerial targets. Shooting at and hitting aerials does require practice.

Also, using the aiming aid is not a bar against using the sights if time and conditions allow for their use. The aid and you pointing ability will enhance their use.

As to the use of the middle finger on the trigger, according to the literature, in combat you will have a crush grip on your gun, so it really doesn't matter which finger pulls the trigger.

Also the grip is not your weak 3 fingered competition and marksmanship grip.

It's a 4 fingered grip that gives you a strong and level shooting platform. The gun is held in the natural pincer of the thumb, web of the hand, and the index finger. And the ring and little fingers add their support and give tenacity to the grip.

You can squeeze the beegebers out of the gun, and all you will do is tighten and strengthen the grip. You can make front punches and elbow smashes, and even use the gun and forearm as a crude battle axe.

"You're welcome to add the aiming aid to your personal gun/s at your own risk and expense.


The ones shown are pieces of plastic corner molding which is available at most any hardware store. Double sided adhesive tape can be used to attach them to guns.

The aiming aid is Patented as the Point And Shoot Index Finger Rest. If you would like to produce and make the aiming aid available to the millions who have a gun for self defense, or to the military, please contact me about licensing via www.pointshooting.com

If your index finger rests over the ejection port, or if it'll be hit by the slide, or if it extends beyond the end of the barrel, then DO NOT use P&S with that gun.

Due to a design fault, the 1911 can jam if the projecting pin of the slide stop is pressed on when the slide recoils, so don't use P&S with the 1911.

As a historical note on the 1911, the US Army did not fix the design fault. There are only cautions against using P&S, as I call it, with the 1911 in manuals dating from 1912 up to the 1940's. I am sure there are other manuals that carry that caution which I am unaware of.

The following or similar language was in the first manual on the 1911 and in others up until 1941: "The trigger should be pulled with the forefinger. If the trigger is pulled with the second finger, the forefinger extending along the side of the receiver is apt to press against the projecting pin of the slide stop and cause a jam when the slide recoils."

As such, our armed forces members for 70+ years did not have the option of using what the US Army says is a fast and accurate method of aiming in close quarters where there is the greatest chance of being shot and/or killed. Nice of those in charge, to be so considerate of those doing the fighting and dying for us and them.

After years and years of cautioning against using the index finger for aiming, and after years and years of specifying just how to shoot the 1911, it is understandable that pulling the trigger with the forefinger, became and still remains the "official and only way" to shoot an automatic.

However; to my way of thinking, if a very basic and very simple method of aiming gets you instinctive, fast and accurate target engagement (as the US Army says it does), why wouldn't one want to use it to give him/her a better chance of staying alive in a close quarters life threat situation.

Why not stack the deck in your favor, and add an aiming to your pistol, AR or SMG.

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