Last edited by MickAK; 04-28-2021 at 03:46 PM.
I think your friend may have enlarged a bit.
That being said, during my first NRA Firearms Instructor Course, circa 1979, Sgt. Ed Doster, a fine gentleman who worked, IIRC, for the St. Petersburg FL PD, told the story of a rookie Florida Highway Patrolman back in the day. It seemed that at the time FHP shot one handed bullseye style quit a bit during training. As Doster told the story, the rookie trooper was with his training officer when a scuffle ensued during a traffic stop, the other trooper called out 'he's got a gun, whereupon the rookie trooper snapped to attention, drew his revolver and nailed the bad guy, one handed bullseye style.
This story along with stories of dead/wounded officers who had stuffed the fired cases in their pocket, as they did during range training, was used to highlight how range training scars can get you hurt or killed.
Don't know if any of those stories are true from firsthand experience, but they serve to make a point. This is firsthand, though.
One of the first officers I had helped train who become involved in an on duty shooting told me that he had chased the reportedly armed guy down after a short foot pursuit. The guy stopped and the officer pulled up short announcing in a clear voice 'stop, think about what your doing, see this gun, don't make me shoot you.' He related to me (during a video we produced) how proud he was that he got all that out just like I had trained him before realizing the guy wasn't going with the program. Somewhat startled, he (the officer) was able to fire first, wounding the suspect.
Learning occurred, one point - officers have to be able to shoot while talking if need be; second point - speech patterns that 'make the suspect own the force decision' are great, but 'police, don't move!' ought to be used to initially instead of a longer canned command.
Last edited by DDTSGM; 04-28-2021 at 10:23 PM.
I knew this cop who did a lot of competition shooting. One day while on duty he was on his meal break and the timer on his watch beeped. He dropped his sandwich and double tapped the waitress, ran to a table about 12 feet away and put two rounds into some old lady having lunch and was about to engage the next target when he thought he heard a buzzer so he froze and waited for the command to make clear.
He later told me he thought his times were off but that was because the course of fire was new to him.
Where is the video from a few years ago on FB where they had the guy in the skit about it. His room mate went around with a buzzer and the guy wound up shooting his laptop and all sorts of things. It was super funny. Anyone remember that one?
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Last edited by JCN; 08-11-2022 at 09:58 PM.
Thanks @JCN, I was hoping you'd share your thoughts on the technical skills in the video. Would you care to speculate on the good guy's classification?