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His shot placement argument should stand on its own merits, regardless of whatever quackery he might prescribe.
But to be honest, he hasn't proven anything in that article.
He appealed to his authority (trained a bunch of Soldiers in some undefined capacity) and cherry picked a bunch of anecdotes, some of which he didn't even connect to his hypothesis.I
A person died after taking 14 .223 rounds in unknown parts of the body from Pat Rodgers? Ok. Where those all lower Alphas? We don't know.
Guy initially survives 14 rounds of .40, 7 of which would have been lower A. Where did the other 7 hit? We're they upper A zone? We don't know.
Guy takes 17 .223 rounds and 5 .40 rounds, most to the A zone or -0 before going down. No mention of how many were upper zone and how many were lower zone. (I'd like to see the tape on this one and see just how many rounds he took and while he still managed to stay in the fight.)
The last two anecdotes are the same - just guys that took a bunch of rounds but he doesn't prove they took a lot of rounds to the lower A zone. Just that they took rounds.
Having said all that, he's probably not wrong.
I attended a Buck Doyle (Follow Through Consulting) Recce Carbine class a couple years ago. Buck talked a little about shot placement.
To summarize he basically said that shooting people in the body doesn't work. You need to shoot them in the joints to take away the ability to fight. Also shoot them in the dick and follow up with a head shot when they reflexively bend over to protect their junk.
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Hits to the legs might take away mobility, but don't automatically take them out of the fight. If you can accurately disable an arm, you could completely disable them with a head shot. I suspect that his different frame of reference is just to be different, and hence increase class attendance.
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