My training is comparable to an infantry battle drill, the idea being, when the SHTF, you aren't going to be able to think. You will be able to react however and your reaction will be whatever you have trained yourself to do.
If you trained yourself to stand in a perfect isosceles stance while holding your weapon in a perfect two handed weaver grip or whatever while delivering slow well aimed shots to a bullseye, you will probably end up hurt or worse. Or maybe you'll get lucky.
The problem is most ranges don’t even allow drawing from a holster, let alone realistic training.
Given the above, 99 times out of 100 all you have to do is produce a firearm and the bad guy leaves.
You don't have to be a special operator to successfully defend yourself with a firearm.
For the most likely scenario (home invasion), my lady has been instructed to empty the magazine (17 9mm) in their general direction.
Of course she’s shot at the range, and knows how to sight a “threat”.
But my assumption is that any average home invader is going to start running by at least shot #3, and (if not dead yet) keep running when shot #17 rings out.
Just sayin’.
If it’s me, I’ll be a little more judicious in ammo usage, making sure I’m on a useful target. I’ve practiced rolling on the ground, and can hit paper while in a complete log-roll upside down while on the move. I think I’ll be okay.
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Is Your Is my firearms Training Realistic? YES!
There's an easier solution, of course. We just make it illegal for anyone to commit a robbery without shouting "Threat!" and standing still. Dunno why nobody thought of that.
We have a recent freeper sign up that belongs to this unit.
Does this shooting training look realistic enough to you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI01qKAqYts
Don’t underestimate the damage a stationary paper target can do. For one thing, they can cause on heck of a wicked paper cut.
What?
Drinking Millers and shooting the empties isn’t realistic training?
The solution to this is quite simple, and yet about as realistic as you can get. Two people with cap guns. Maybe one with a rubber knife as well.
Seriously, if you shoot guns a lot, you are used to the look, feel and nature of real guns, so it is not hard to imagine a more realistic cap gun in the place of a real gun.
I’d add on a tripod and a digital video recorder, because you can learn a heck of a lot by watching your “game films”.
You can practice the Tueller drill. Likewise practice your subterfuge, using tricks to get close to the gunman.
Importantly, it *almost* feels embarrassing to shoot at someone with blanks, and that simulates the deadly hesitation you might get when you need to fire real bullets.
Me and the wife were on the range today. She fired off 100 rounds in her new Glock 42 .380 pistol. I fired up my new shotgun with buck shot. Man what a hole that makes in the targets. Any guy I ht with that will not get up off the floor.
I took a Simunitions class in a shoot house last year.
I did everything wrong (shot the wrong guy twice, got ambushed and killed twice), but, oh, man, did I learn a lot.
Training on a square range? OK to learn to operate the weapon. That’s about it.
Very, but only if I'm being attacked by 108 millimeter flying clay discs.