A few thought's on the FAST TEST..
I see ( and am Guilty of) folks posting there best times and I'm all for that! but having been driven totally nuts by the test Im starting to see a different side to it. It is a TEST not a DRILL, Its what you do to test your ability to do several Fundamental handgun skills, not build them.
So with that said Im starting to think of the TEST as a Cumulative score test, so Lets say on your Three Ligit runs you do a 4.6 -1 head ( 6.6) a 5.5 clean and a 4.4 -1 head and 2 body's ( 8.4) for a Total time of 20.5. Wile the individual times are "FAST" the total time is average (ISH) But if you did 3 Clean runs at 6.0 flat each you would have a total score of 18. I would argue that the "better", lower total time score would better represent the True ability of the shooter.
Im Not saying that you should not push yourself on this TEST, but as I've heard TLG tell me Oh more times than I care to mention, "Go as fast as you can Guarantee hits"!! So lets look at my last time I did the three ligit runs, this was Cold and in front of TLG, a 5.06 clean, 5.36 clean and a 4.74 -1 head and 2 body ( 8.74) so that day my time was 19.19, so there it is, would a total 18 sec run be a better representative of my shooting capability?
Thoughts?