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Reality Check: Spreading Out Your Rounds

Talyn

Talyn

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“Well, you might have put them all in one spot, but I would rather spread them out because that’s more tactical. If a bullet goes into the same hole it’s not doing any damage.”

When the time arrives for you to defend your life, or of the innocent lives of others, with your handgun, there will be a large number of variables that will combine to preclude your shots from entering the same hole.

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Reality Check: Spreading Out Your Rounds

The lesson I learned that day was that consistent performance isn’t always rewarded, at least on paper.
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Talyn said:
“Well, you might have put them all in one spot, but I would rather spread them out because that’s more tactical. If a bullet goes into the same hole it’s not doing any damage.”
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OMG that sounds like my PD firearms instructor. Lets just say I think she got her job because of her remastered front end. I shot a Q course with a hole in the chest you could put your fist through and she scored it an "88". It cost me Top Shooter; BUT she did do me a favor. She told me to shoot for the head.

Talyn said:
a bullet goes into the same hole it’s not doing any damage.”
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Yeah whoever said that never paid attention in High School biology or had any medical training OR I think maybe doesnt understand modern ballistics

All that trash talk, aside I am in favor of vertical tracking, especially today with the growing numbers of bad guys using armor. The Mozambique Drill of two in the body and one to the head (is guaranteed to leave them dead), worked then and continues to work today. Of course you could just start with head shots.

FROM THE ARTICLE: The idea that I had put nine rounds into a tight cluster of shots and my tenth round had somehow completely missed the paper seemed ludicrous. Its a hard sell if you are the shooter but typical of range officers who cant remember the last time they faced a warm ANGRY body. Paper Targets are NOT real life, and yet we judge competence by holes in paper thats NOT shooting back

Also From the Article: Real Threats are Made of Flesh, Not Cardboard. The monsters who would attack and kill us aren’t made of paper. To THIS I AGREE He points out in the article that once hit bodies will begin to collapse, OK true enough (and paper targets dont fall). So by extension a tight group on a paper target will in REAL LIFE be spread out. Training to spread out your shots on paper is a fallacy that does NOT translate well to the street
 
Just to add to the story: George S. Patton shooting in the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, placed 5th in the Modern Pentathlon because of a controversial judges score. The judges claimed he missed a shot, but Patton argued his precision allowed one bullet to pass through another’s hole. He he ended up finishing 20th in that event, placing him out of a medal.

Lieutenant Patton used a .38 Colt, unlike the .22s used by others. Judges recorded a low score, claiming one shot missed the target completely. After WW2 He returned to Stockholm and duplicated the match with a much better score proving his proficiency
 
I wish a lot of tales would die already.

And while 2 bullets through the same hole is still gonna mess aomeone up (like how weak a 380 is perceived to be but yet nobody is so sure they would let someone shoot them with one) nobody short of running a mini gun is that fast as people move when they get shot at as the article said. So yet another thing that apparently some so called instructors still being it up but they are awaiting class time with some BS.
 
I would suggest that in live fire situation, with the anxiety and elevated rate of everything in your body, you should probably practice shooting the wings off the fly and maybe we could manage keeping the hits in the target. How many of these experts have actually been in a shooting that are telling us how we should shoot?

Just my thoughts, your opinion may be different.
 
Here's what I thought would make the second round final because his face would be closer,shoot the bad guy in the lower stomach ( maybe a little lower)then as he bends towards you with eyes the size of manhole covers Wala bullseye.
 
835mag said:
The first cc course I took years ago the instructor (a cop) said start shooting at the groin and don’t stop until you get to the top of their head.
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Was cringeworthy them as is now. I’d rather stop the pump house in the Aortic box or the computer at the nose/eye

And doing it in 1-3 rounds always looks a little better to a grand jury is your case is on the fence of good or bad shoot

But movies so so what you think!
 
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