I enjoyed your video. I always like to see what other people do and see as a challenge. I'll have to give it a try. Personally I would just call it the "Run your mouth standards..." Y'know, like ok, you can talk, now can you shoot...and have them do this...
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We have the same problem in the USAF - our pistol qual target is this enormous target that makes a B-27 look small, and to qualify all you have to do is hit it 35 out of 45 times. That's right, you can completely miss the target 10 times and still qualify. I will say that making expert on our qual requires someone to be a marginally competent shooter, but the scoring zones are still too big and the expert criteria isn't particularly challenging for anyone at or above IDPA Sharpshooter levels of skill. Word on the street is they're changing the qual when the M18 hits.
OK, maybe John Murphy or Tom Givens or BehindBlueI or another real SME can weigh in on an “average” engagement range for a self defense situation.
Last edited by Tom Duffy; 02-18-2019 at 06:55 PM.
Real guns have hammers.
Why would I care about the average? I care about the difficult one, the outliers. If I cared about the average I wouldn't even bother carrying a gun in the first place. I'm nearly 53 and haven't needed one yet, and the overwhelming majority of people in this country won't ever need one in their life.
To bring this back around to your original point, why train for the average shot or the average distance? Train to the higher standard. To the difficult, tight, long shots. And then the average shot looks much easier.
Don't need an SME to see that.
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Real guns have hammers.