Very few, if any people I train, reach the one second shot on target but it gives them a goal to work towards.
In the end this is about building confidence, confidence delays panic. Itâs panic which causes you to make poor decisions and itâs poor decisions which can get you killed.
People just assume compliance is the way out of a carjacking, robbery or hold up and in some cases that may be. But I once read roughly 30% of people who comply still end up injured or dead so my personal position is, if I am going down, I might as well go down fightingđ¤ˇđźââď¸
Yes as a defender we are all working from behind the curve. Reaction is always slower than action. But through training you learn there are things you can do to put yourself a little bit ahead of the curve by forcing the bad guy to once again make a trip through his OODA loop.
I.E. getting off the âXâ
You have surprise working in your favor too. Most bad guys are expecting a when in reality theyâre about to engage a
I like to use the drill taught by Dave Spaulding. Two shots in under two seconds from 7 yards, on a 3 x 5 card, drawing from concealment. Again itâs tough to do, but with practice, itâs very doable.
Amen - Agree, yup - that is me.
And Pledged âMy Lifeâ to Defend the âChurch Bodyâ.
Last row, on the end, in the back. At least No-one can get Behind me.
And Praying I do NOT actually Have to use it.
And NOT Hit an innocent bystander/Church Member - That is why I recently bought a new gun with âMounted Opticâ.
I want to be Sure, True, Fast and Careful-as Possible.
And I realize I âMayâ have to move and/or Take a Diff Angle to avoid a "HNT-Hit on Non-threat or Shoot-thru.
Even though my âLoad Outâ is ALL Hornaday CD 9mm.
And Training and shooting Combat Type matches with it, most every Sat to get used to it.
Like I have done every Sat for last 10yr.
Pistol Mounted Optic - Better than Open Sights but not as easy as I thought it would be.
To help with the âOld Eyesâ Thing.
I insist on knowing my Limitations and Capabilities with so many people around.
Glad I shoot matches that include Non-threats in the mix.
Fact I have one later today - Combat Multi-Gun.
As For myself I was trained tto nott have the least bit of remorse to put someone down in order to survive and that is the way I train today ,keep practicing motor memory and you can do it with no remorse
I have no optics at all on my hand weapons with the exception of the factory sites and an on demand laser the is zeroed to the sites and barrel and my 45 is loaded with DRT rounds so that takes care of pass throughâs and I donât fire to wound,I do head shots and the DRT rounds are frangible and when it hits water/blood they explode and so no pass through s happen,i just don;t want to wound as I have seen many wounded still do a take down
Iâll say, that is an exception to the rule. Must be the area you live in. Iâve been to more indoor ranges than I can count for sure at this point, and not a single one has had a rule about how quickly you can shoot (other than, you shoot the ceiling/walls, youâre gonna get the hook)
Now, outdoor ranges, those are the Fudd ranges that have super strict 1 shot per second rules, generally run the state/DNR, implied that they only want hunters sighting in, and Iâve been chewed out for 1.04 second splits (measured on shot timer) because it was rapid fire and yada yada yada
Just my experience.
And yeah Iâm still super jealous you get to shoot in your backyard, that is awesome
True.
And a newish trend - NOW - Many Mass Shooters are now wearing Body Armor.
SO - On âDefeating Body Armorâ.
When I ask students what is their Secondary-Shot Area choice for someone wearing Body Armor ?
ie 2 Good Shots âHigh Center Massâ have âNo Effectâ.
The ans is almost always a âHead Shotâ.
I âGenerallyâ Disagree.
âMY Preferredâ Secondary Hit Area, if 2-3 shots to high center mass do Not work, is a âHip Shotâ.
A Head Shot is Very Demanding with a small (Say 2in) hit-area required - and the Head can move a LOT.
And a Missed Head Shot is going to travel a long way-out, Down the Street, and maybe hit a bystander.
With a âHip Shotâ - you usually have 2(TWO) Larger areas available.
And often your shot-trajectory for Hips - will generally be a downward trajectory with less chance of Missed Rounds traveling as far to by-standers as a missed âHead Shotâ.
Also - Most Body Armor Stops - ABOVE the Hips.
With HIPS - You typically have 2 âHit Areasâ available -
And EACH present a larger hit area then a Head Shot.
Take out a Hip and the Threat will likely âGo Downâ.
So, Generally, The Hips Provide a Much Larger Target area, that does not move as easily as the Head and Most Body Armor stops above the Hips.
AND a missed âHip Shotâ is less likely to hit by-standers.
And if it does it will likely be a more survivable leg shot.
Clubs all over the US and World Sponsor IDPA Matches.
Shoot-thru real-life-type scenarios .
With some Non-Threat targets thrown-in in front of Threats - So you practice avoid shooting innocents.
Look up IDPA on web - Clubs all over USA and World Sponsor Matches.
Typically monthly.
They typically have a âNew Shooter Meetingâ before every match to teach rules etc.
1st - Go Watch a match.
Talk to the Match Director.
And a perfect example of what I dislike is one of the IDPA rules, that being, a procedural if you reload your pistol and simply drop the old magazine on the ground.
I, personally, even though I am quite convinced I will never need to perform a reload in self defense (astronomical odds is an understatement), what I train myself to do, and would intend to do, should I need to reload in a self defense incident, is to retrieve the new magazine, drop the old, insert the new. Nothing more, nothing less.
Me, Iâm not going to fumble around being fancy trying to hold two magazines at once under life or death stress so that I can put the original magazine in my pocket and possibly retrieve it later for a re-reload load.
Itâs slower, it runs more risk of being caught with no magazine in the gun at all, and it runs more risk of dropping the new magazine.
That, and other things like it (arbitrary limits on round sin the magazine, starting downloaded, etc), are what keep me from doing competitions more often. Gets too removed from what Iâm after RE: Self defense
I heard a similar conversation in regards to when or should I pull the trigger. The gentleman said, âWhat do you suppose would be the outcome if you donât pull the trigger?â
With the advent of the availability of body armor,I practice for the HEAD
,Neck and the Femoral Artery,ans can do damage with the laser,where it points is where the round goes, and if a break in occurs and they have body armor i have a DP_12 gauge Double Barrel Pump that is loaded with Dragons Breath with 00 buck rounds and armor is not fire proof so if any thing happens it is a BBQ
Also a general statement Iâd like to make, body armor is not as common for mass shooters/murderers as you probably think. The media very much likes to make the claim that the shooter had body armor when they in fact did not. I can think of multiple where the initial story was about body armor and it turned out to be a chest rig/load bearing vest or similar and not armorâŚbut people remember and go witht he armor story and then politicians use that belief as an excuse to try to ban it
I stocked up on the dragons breath to prepare when they were talking about sending armed units to door to door for forced vaccination/death shot,and yes i prefer to use it out side but if in side I do have 7 5lb extinguishers located in every room in the house,but really never planed to use it inside,it is loaded the first four out are OO aught buck shot and the rest of the 16 rounde are dragon breath with 00
On your training methods.
when in reality theyâre about to engage a 