Buz Fawcett Instinctive Shooting

[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.