Some drills you ask yourself, “Would I ever need to utilize this drill?”
Yes, Okay, that is why!
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This is a fairly notorious video. According to what I read that dude was so geeked on drugs, that he was effectively dead from the first shots but it took his body a bit to realize it. But that is why you don’t shoot to kill. You shoot to stop the threat.
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Failure to stop drill is valid.
Handguns are weak and ineffective as a general rule in regards to stopping attackers immediately.
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As a Federal agent, that’s why I was trained to shoot two to the chest and one to the head.
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True they aren’t as powerful as a rifle, but after harvesting several deer with a 44 magnum and seeing the tissue/ bone damage and the fact that everyone of those went completely through shoulder and out the other side. I run that drill all the time. Pretty sure nothing’s getting up from it.
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Perhaps…not many people conceal carry .44 mag though.
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I’ll get slagged for it…I open carry.
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Not many open carry .44 mags either lol but fair enough
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I was also federal and we consistently trained two to the chest and one to the head drills.
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I think it is a good drill to practice from time to time but I like to switch up the counts quite a bit.
If all we ever practice are two to the chest and one to the head that is likely exactly how we will end up responding to a threat in the real world. But there are a lot of potential scenarios where that pattern of fire might not be a good choice. If we or the target are moving rapidly and erratically a head shot could be very hard to make and more likely to miss and hit an unintended target. Even if it is safe to take the head shot it might not have the desired effect either and a second, or even third, to the head might be needed.
So I will sometimes practice just to the body or just to the head and random combinations of 2 to 4 or more to the body and then 1 or more to the head or the pelvis instead. I want my subconscious and muscle memory to have a variety of options to choose from.
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My eyes will focus on points and not just the body. Aim small, miss small.
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As a civilian I do not use head as a target.
“Failure to stop” drill is great to practice transition, speed and precision the same time… but in reality instead of shooting small head, I’m shooting big pelvic area.
Two in the chest, many in the pelvis…
Threat is stopped, not killed, no stupid questions asked “why did you kill him?”. Remember - shooting in the head is a murder.
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I don’t know who told you that. It is not true. I don’t know what makes us let people get away with that deception. Shooting in the head is shooting in the head to stop someone from murdering you. Murdering is shooting an innocent person and killing them.
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Femoral artery is still a lethal injury,…
And in case you missed it, the perp in the video took several to the chest and kept coming like the officer was shooting blanks!
Without a doubt he would’ve kept coming if the officer had shot him in the pelvis, nuts, or kneecaps!
Drugs or not, perps have a hard time continuing to be a threat when their grey matter is evacuated
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The pelvic girdle is a critical area as far as a stop goes. Think of all of the structural and arterial constructs in it.
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Yes, it will stop the perp eventually, but not nearly as quickly as opening the dome and letting the air out is what I’m saying!
Seriously, if they shrug off two to the chest and keep attacking, I will take the head shot if I can!
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I read an article a year or so back that was written by a medical professional (a forensic pathologist if I am remembering correctly) who’s argument was that the pelvic girdle was not the guaranteed quick stopper many have been lead to believe based on the evidence he had seen.
It is a viable target and can be effective but still requires hitting very specific spots to physically force the attacker to go down. Even after going down the attacker can still be in the fight.
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