While not strictly about Point Shooting, this does deal with Jim Cirillo.
I have his book and both of his videos.
In one of his videos he recounts his first "gunfight" as a member of the
NYPD Stakeout Squad where he found that he referenced the bad guys by the
colors that they were wearing, holding his fire when another color, which
turned out to be a store clerk, came into his field of view.
This past spring I had a somewhat similar experience while dealing with a Raccoon.
I was sitting upstairs at my computer and had been hearing something in the attic.
I had the window open and heard what sounded like something coming
down the tree, the normal route for critters to get on, and off, our roof.
I quickly went downstairs and grabbed my 20 ga. Rem. 870 that has a
Streamlight TLR2s on it, with forearm mounted switch pad.
As I cleared the corner of the house I was scanning the area between the
house and the farm field that the farmer had just disced & planted that day.
The cultivated field begins about 30 ft. from the front of the house with
some trees & "obstacles" between the field & house.
I quickly spotted the Coon about 30' out in the open field to my left, on a dead
run heading to my left, getting close to making a 90 degree turn behind some
bushes & pines that run along the edge of the field along that side of the house.
I started running with my focus on the Coon & the laser dot that was right on it.
Just as I was about to break the shot I had a flash of grey across my line of sight,
our attenae tower, so I held off and just as I was ready again another flash of grey,
some wind chimes hanging in a tree, another flash, this time white, a small bird house
hanging in the same tree. Then a flash of dark grey, the tree trunk itself with another
flash of white, a pvc clean out that comes out of the ground for our drainage system.
This all happened as I was running no further than 40' with my focus on my target and
just as I caught something to my left I knew that it was a small bush that, afterwards,
my line of sight would be no more so I broke the shot while still on a dead run.
Even though I looked that night, and as soon as dawn broke, I didn't find the Coon,
dead, until the next afternoon about 25 yards from where I had shot at it.
In spite of the fact that things were busy while I was running, trying to get my shot,
seeing those colors flash across my field of view made me think of Jim while it was
all going down. It was almost as if time was slowed and I had enough time to do what
I was doing and think about Jim Cirillo talking about "color codes" at the same time.
The whole thing took no more than 3 or 4 seconds once I spotted the Raccoon in the field.
I've shot a lot of critters, at night, around the house, vehicles & barns with both handguns
& shotguns and can say, for a fact, that training for dynamic situations (movement)
is quite a bit different than actually doing it. Time is something that you may not have
much of so the controlled enviroment of a training situation, where you have the time,
is something that you simply have to over-ride if you ever find yourself in a "situation."
If you go into a situation, even as safe as just dealing with a critter, you can't let your
pre-concieved ideas of how something will go down effect your actions if they don't go
the way you expected. Just keep on playing the hand you are dealt and never give up,
no matter how bad you think things may be. When dealing with a bad guy, confidence
in your ability, confidence based on training, will be one of your greatest asset's.
Getting back to the point shooting aspect of it all.
Fully 95% of the time, when dealing with critters, there was no time
to go for the sights proper so some method of point shooting, no matter
what it's called, should be a part of everyone's training program.
