Buz Fawcett Instinctive Shooting

[K McQ]

Has anybody heard of this guy or better yet taken his class? I’m reading his book and it seems interesting but since he’s no longer around I can’t ask him questions. ….you can’t lean to ride a bike by reading a book.
Thanks for any help.

[Ed Blake]

Michael Yardley has a couple you tubes on instinctive shooting. He is alive and well in the UK

[Stan Hillis]

Was he the guy that taught the basics of instinctive shooting using a BB gun?

[K McQ]

Thanks Ed but Buz does it a litte bit different than most. He stands "goofy foot" or shooting side foot forward. It seems odd at first but I can see some benefits to it. Theres also several challenges that I think could be fixed with a little coaching.

[K McQ]

Maybe Stan or he kearned from that guy. His book doesn't do it that way though.

[Researcher]

Jim Gregg the pro at the old Seattle Skeet & Trap Club when I was in college use to teach that. I once watched him shoot a round of skeet with a Model 12 Skeet Gun and never bring the butt above his elbow. Got 23. In my retirement I ran into him at a little gun show at Moses Lake. He was still at it with all types of firearms --

https://www.amazon.com/Gregg-Method-.../dp/0975906801

[Kevin McCormack]

I think Buzz was cut from the same cloth as a lot of the late 1940s - '50s professional showman shooters from Winchester, Remington, and others. Smoking targets from the hip at (previously calculated) ranges with a 12 gauge if put under today's computer analyses regimens I think would show the ballistic equivalent of shooting butterflies with a blunderbluss. IMHO the real artistic merit of gun handling and shooting comes to fruition in box bird, columbaire and especially driven bird shooting, where no angle is predictable and no lead is easily established.

[Bill Murphy]

Stan, the guy you are describing is Lucky McDaniel. His system is the same as the system used by the U.S. Army in the "Quick Kill" course during the Viet Nam era. I took the Quik Kill course at Fort Bragg in late 1967. I had a bit of an advantage because I had been shooting aerial targets with rifles for several years before I joined (yeah, maybe not joined) the Army. However, the soldiers that had never shot a gun learned to shoot discs with the Daisy guns pretty quickly. I never got to where I could hit dime size thrown discs, but quarter size targets were a piece of cake. That one day with the BB guns was a welcome break from Infantry training.

[Bill Murphy]

Kevin PMed me and asked what the Army taught us about instinct shooting at aerial targets without sights. The Army Daisys had no sights. The only thing I remember is that we were to look over the gun, come up under the target, and shoot as we reached the target. Any correction would be made by seeing the BB. I could not see a .22 bullet when I shot aerial targets with a rifle, but looking over the sightless gun and coming up to the target from below were the same as with the BB gun. Seeing the BB as it approached the target made everything a piece of cake. The Fawcett book is available on Amazon for a few bucks.

[Brazos A-39]

Leon Measures who lived east of Houston, TX, used to sell a Daisy BB gun with the sights ground off of it along with a vhs tape that showed you how you could shoot instinctively. I personally watched him teach a girl how to shoot an aspirin out of the air with one of his Daisy Red Ryders in about 20 minutes. He was quite a gentleman.