Abstract. Shooting methods are employed to obtain solutions of the threepoint boundary value problem for the second order equation, y = f (x, y, y ), y(x 1 ) = y 1 , y(x 3 ) − y(x 2 ) = y 2 , where f : (a, b) × R 2 → R is continuous, a < x 1 < x 2 < x 3 < b, and y 1 , y 2 ∈ R, and conditions are imposed implying that solutions of such problems are unique, when they exist.