JeffG
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What you're describing, JeffG, is what I once called "shoot your way to a sight picture". For some tasks, a highly refined sight picture is required. At the opposite end of the spectrum, a simply awareness of the direction the pistol is pointed, with no visual reference, is all you need and maybe all you can get. But those are not isolated from one another. The end goal, if shooting lasts long enough, is to get a sight picture. But you may be done shooting before that happens. It is not defined steps, it is a flowing continuum.
Mathew Temkin has written a great deal on the merits and proper technique of point shooting. Many new methods have come and gone, failing to deliver when it mattered or lacking in some point that overwhelmed their perceived strengths. But point shooting, first codified by Sykes, Fairbairn and Applegate (he came a bit later, in the 1940's) has evolved as more became understood and adapted for a century now.
Excellent points.
I may have lost my way a bit in my post. My point overall, was that there is no reason to switch hands or forego defensive pistol shooting. Many of my fellow trainers disagree. I have heard trainers tell shooters to stop shooting handguns over eye dominance issues. Yes, time permitting, situations permitting, a correct sight picture is important. Placing rounds on a perp is also.