Originally Posted by
John Hearne
At a behavioral level, if you're good at shooting, you're probably good at other shooting related skills as well. Cooper wasn't off when he developed the triad - marksmanship, manipulation, and mindset. Manipulation is a co-equal with marksmanship and testing it isn't a bad thing - whether its more or less likely. So whether we like it or not, in scientific testing of a quality good enough to be published in one of the world's top science journal, the draw-fire-reload-fire was found to be the most predictive test.
Of interest to this group, the expert I spoke with was also a huge fan of competition and dry practice. He loved competition because it is a long string of sequenced skills. He thought that dry practice was our most underutilized resource