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I used to hunt at a lodge in the NY Catskill mountains that had about 50 guys during the opening days of deer season.
There was this one guy named Bill who was always being asked for help by hunters on the rifle range.
Turned out that Bill was, in fact, Bill Allard of the stakeout squad and a former partner of Cirillo.
One night I got him alone by the fireplace and started pumping him for info.
( I think he was trying to get me to become a paying student which, in 1992 or so, was $125 per hour)
I finally got to ask him which was better--point or aimed fire.
His response----"It depends"
Which kind of says it all.
Let us not forget that what the Stakeout Squad did was not the norm of police gun fighting where the officer is taken by surprise and the distances are often measured in inches as opposed to yards.
They had the luxury of distance and being able to choose ( and modify) the battleground/firing lanes and it was them who decided when the confrontation was to begin.
A big advantage, to be sure.
Some may call this ambushing, as opposed to gun fighting.
A term that Cirillo him self used in his classes.
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