Howdy All
Shooting from the hip is a lot of fun, we never had any accidents, and by using wax loads at close range targets it was safe for all, unlike fast draw, you would simply draw your gun as you normally would, but shoot from the hip, we had RED wax bullets that would mark the targets well enough to be seen easily, most hip shooting was done in close quarter fighting, so the targets were close in as Steel Horse was talking about, you would be surprised how good you can get doing this practice, it's a sharpening of hand and mine coordination, in other words, " Becoming ONE with your gun " point/ instinct shooting, is a skill that needs to be honed and practiced, you can practice this at home with an unloaded gun, pick a target on your wall or anything away from people or pets, you still need to stay with safe gun handling, see how you do pointing, and later at a range or out in the boony's using wax bullets makes a great way to practice and learn, and have fun safely doing it, years ago I got proficient enough that I used live ammo for this, but I always did it in safe surroundings and shot with a berm or mountain back ground, but in comp. we always used the WAX BULLETS.
I'm explaining all this so those that haven't ever done this practice before will have a better understanding of how to do it safely.
Regards
tEN wOLVES