AIMED Point Shooting or P&S, is fast, automatic, instinctive, and accurate. It can be used in good light or bad, night or day, and in almost all conditions. It works when shooting multiple times, when moving, and against moving targets, even aerials. And it can be used when you can't see or use the sights.

P&S is simple, reliable, and EZ to use. And it can be learned with little or no training.

However, it does not happen by magic.

It is much like riding a bike or tying your shoes. Both are impossible tasks until done. But once mastered, they become almost automatic.

P&S is also FREE.

And it is compatible with a variety of pistols, submachine guns, and assault rifles.

To use it, you just grip the gun, place your index finger along the side of a gun, point at a target, and pull the trigger with your middle or left index finger.

That's all there is to it. Just point-n-pull, point-n-pull. No more, no less.

P&S works because the gun barrel is aligned with the index finger, which we can instinctively, automatically, and accurately point at things. As such, the barrel will be AIMED at any target pointed at.

It is cognitively simple (requires little active thinking decision making). And it utilizes large muscle groups and gross motor skills which produce optimal performance during high levels of stress.

P&S requires no special grip, stance, indexing, breathing, specific positioning of the arms, hands, or thumbs. Nor does it require you to go thru the "proper" sight alignment steps, squeeze or manipulate the trigger, etc..

Just point-n-pull.

With P&S, you grab the gun and hold it in the natural, strong, and level shooting platform made up of your thumb, the web of your hand, and your index finger. Your ring and little fingers also help with the grip, and they add tenacity to it. That's their job.

The middle finger, which can be flexed and extended independantly, is used to pull the trigger. And its base adds to the grip.

The index finger, when extended along the side of the gun, helps to naturally "lock up" the wrist, strengthen the grip, and improve recoil control.

Also, the thumb and index finger DO NOT have to be held aloof from the gun.

And you can squeeze the begeebers out of the gun if you wish, using the natural pincer made up of your index finger and opposing thumb. All the increased pressure will do, is strengthen your grip on the gun.

The P&S grip can be maintained even when the gun is jumping and bucking in your hand with rapid firing.

And when used in conjunction with a "wrist lock" grip, elbow smashes to the left or right can be made, as well as forward punches. Recoil will be dampened considerably.

P&S can be used in conjunction with, and to enhance Sight Shooting and other Point Shooting methods.

See the links on this site to my test shoot info and photos of targets used, and to short videos of P&S being used. The photos and videos show that it is very effective.

As an example, in the following pic, at the "in home" distance of 12-13 feet, I put five out of five bullets in a nice group while shooting as fast as I could point my finger at the target, and pull the trigger.

The sights were not used or relied on.

That is important, because the precision hand eye coordination skills and fine motor skills, which are needed for Sight Shooting, will in most cases, be lost to use in real life and death close quarters threat situations. And as such, Sight Shooting will not be used in CQB situations. For more info., see the article titled: Why Sight Shooting Fails.

If you do not know Point Shooting or AIMED Point Shooting, in a real life threat situation, you could be up the creek and without a paddle.

Point Shooting and AIMED Point Shooting or P&S, are not new. Way back in 1954 when in the Army and qualifying with a grease gun, I was told to shoot from the hip with my index finger along the side of the grease gun to aim it.

I had never shot that way before, but with NO practice, I hit the center of the target when shooting from the hip using P&S. I knew I hit the center of the target as a 1x4 length of wood was used to hold the target up, and it ran up the center of the target. When I shot I saw wood splinters come off the target.

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P&S is the simplest of Point Shooting methods.

The photos below show that it in fact, can be deadly effective. They are pictures taken just before and after Ruby shot Oswald using P&S.

Here is a picture of Oswald just prior to being shot. It is one of a slide/series of WWW.dallasnews.com JFK assassination photos.

Here is the web link to the picture.

Note that Ruby is back from, and off to the left of one of the officers holding Oswald. The target area is not large because of the position of Oswald's arms and the policeman's arm. And all of them are moving. So, there is no time to do anything but Point & Shoot.

Ruby points where he is going to shoot, and shoots where he points.

This is the JFKlancer.com photo of Oswald just after he was shot.

Here is the web link to the picture.

In the pictures, you can see that Ruby used his middle finger to pull the trigger. His gun is way below eye level so he is not Sight Shooting.

As I recall, when watching the TV video of the shooting on the day that it happened, Ruby and Oswald were three feet or more apart when Oswald was shot.

It was a dynamic situation with the parties moving, and the available target area was small and also moving. No bystanders were hit, and Oswald died.

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Walter J. Dorfner, the retired and now deceased lead firearms instructor for the Vermont State Patrol, developed and experimented with P&S on his own. He found that it was compatible with a large variety of guns. A digest of his paper that details his study and work on P&S is on this site.

Common sense is required when using P&S. It should not be used with revolvers if powder flash will burn it, or on autoloaders where the index finger will be hit by the slide, or rest over the ejection port, or extend beyond the muzzle.

On many guns, the take down pivot can be used as a point of reference for placement of the index finger.

However, with the model 1911, or other guns which have a pivot/pin/axel extending out from the right side of the frame, pressing on the pivot while firing may depress the pivot and in turn, cause the gun to jam.

The P&S method is free, and anyone is welcome to try it and use it as long as they assume full responsibility for any and all results.

THE P&S INDEX FINGER REST OR P&S AIMING AID

In normal circumstances, correct index finger placement is easy. But in the dark, in a high stress situation, or when shooting rapidly, it may be difficult to place your index finger correctly, and keep it in place and away from the slide.

The P&S Index Finger Rest is a simple, reliable, and easy to use aiming aid that can help you do that.

It makes correct finger placement mechanical and automatic, and it helps keep your finger in place and away from the slide when shooting rapidly. It also helps in supporting the gun and giving use a stable shooting platform, as it will rest on top of the index finger which is used to grip and aim the gun. With it, your hand and gun will fit together like hand and glove, and you will have better control of your gun.