wwillson Posted April 17, 2010 Report Share Posted April 17, 2010 Family friend happens to be a grand master defensive pistol shooter who didn't happen to have his weapon on body at the time.Could have been a very hard lesson learned. Link to their forums Wayne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwillson Posted April 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2010 An update that's very though provoking. He makes a good point that defensive pistol games are just that, games.Wayne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnewton3 Posted July 28, 2010 Report Share Posted July 28, 2010 There is no substitute for real life experience. Luckily, your friend survived to live another day.Once a year, we have to "qualify" at the SO where I work, to meet State requirements. We shoot holes in paper targets in a very stagnant situation. It satisfies the State protocol, but little else.The other 11 months of the year, we get range time with different scenarios with ZERO advance intel. We're simply told the date and time to show up with our duty weapons (Glk 19 and Ruger mini-14 and Taser). From there on out, we run live-fire scenarios. Might be moving targets, might be taking hostage shots, possibly close-quaters shoots in a simulated house, etc. Each Deputy stands out of range sight until his turn in the zone; we might hear a bit of this and that, but you cannot pre-formulate a plan when you can't tell what's going on. One of the more prominent scenarios we're using more often is school-shooting responses. (Sadly, a reality that's becoming more promiment nationwide). We have an old shool building that is only about 20 years old, that we run all kinds of "no pretext" drills in. But even these pale in comparison to real world gunfights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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