[Dusty]

If you practiced enough and had the inherent talent to develop the proficiency to engage without using your front sight, you could do it. Bill Jordan was outstanding, as is Munden and others. Jordan more or less teaches the technique in one of my favorite books, No Second Place Winner.

But to standardize and expedite the training of an individual shooter, the front sight technique is basically mandatory in my experience; that point did not hit home with me while teaching LBG's to shoot High Powers, but in readying female medical personnel on their way down south.

Inherently, a woman will most likely be more accurate in her first gunfight if she never shot the handgun during her trainup because of the flinch. Once they do shoot, you have to do dummy drills (no offense) with them exhaustively until they get past the flinching. These drills and others incorporate sighting the weapon on the target, and would inherently be more suffessful in the elimination of a threat than teaching them to shoot instinctively due to the accuracy developed via repitition (mandated by the flinch drilling).

Using female medical personnel who are non-shooters as your base line for your student model, you find out that the quickest, most efficient method of training someone to successfully engage a target is by getting a sight picture as you press the trigger.

That's what I learned, anyway.