The sad truth is shooting is easy. Understanding and applying the rules of marksmanship fundamentals is not a secret nor is it magic. Anyone can be a competent marksman. Of course that's only a part of the equation isn't it?
Punching holes in paper is more gratifying than practicing pro-active and re-active gun handling skills. It's less physically taxing than displacement footwork while accessing your weapon or setting up transitions to your secondary weapon. It's more fun than sprints and lifting heavy stuff.
My truth is I need a balance of all these things from fundamentals to lifting heavy stuff to make the most of my training. I do train because I find it fun and entertaining, but I also train because I have a life worth protecting.
I've been shooting 1" dots for decades because building accuracy is the basis for building speed.
Preaching to the choir here perhaps, but shooting a little dot forces you to concentrate on accuracy and it becomes easier over time - as you progress, you get faster at obtaining the same result and muscle memory starts to take over to the point where you're fast enough that you barely even need to consciously see your sights.
Exactly and that is why we need to be honest with ourselves about our abilities, limitations and need for growth.^^^ I like that a lot.
I guess human nature is to do what we're good at. We don't like failing, so we like to stay away from the things we suck at (and try to justify such behavior to ourselves) - which makes our own personal "radar chart" skewed instead of well-rounded.
I like the saying I read somewhere that "An amateur does it till he gets it right - a pro does it till he can't get it wrong". Quite a difference in commitment there...
At practice last night I was shooting at 6 different 3" circles at 7 yards.
er to manifest under stress.
It requires skill to deliver an effective shot under stress.
So, learn to shoot well. Really well.
Be able to produce tight groups on demand.
Learn to keep that accuracy at quicker cadences.
Do this and accuracy at speed becomes easy.
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It's easier to stand close to the target and slam the trigger about an call the no-skill grouping that produces something positive (combat accuracy).
Great shooting skill, is no survival ill
If you're not used to seeing a radar chart, here's an example:
I suspect people don't want to shoot small groups... cuz it's hard. It requires discipline. It requires practice.
I was (somewhat) critical of your video. And not to rehash the discussion, but I can give some insight as to why which wasn't as clear at the time.
In your video you concentrated on accuracy, which is good. But you made no mention of speed as a goal (that I remember).
I think this can lead to the same "ok, I'm good" mentality for someone that can slow fire a few shots, take a break, slow fire a few more, then say "sweet, 2" group. I'm good to go" while never learning to control recoil.
I get a clearer view of you idea in the above post than what I saw in the video and agree. From there it's just the semantics of "combat accuracy" which isn't worth debating at this point.
Thank you, I appreciate you taking the time to point out the deficiency in the video. While I knew there would be trolls who just post stupid stuff to troll, and acolytes who would refuse to question their faith. It was clear that there was some misunderstanding as to my point. That misunderstanding (my failure to be clear) needed clarification.
I did not mention speed initially because I didn't consider it a part of the equation. Learn to be accurate first. Be able to shoot a very tight group at further distances than "typical" self-defense distance. Have that mastery of fundamentals so they can be drawn upon and stave off the gross inaccuracy stress can effect.
I agree that combat accuracy is a term open for semantic debate. So, I choose the definitions most often found on the internet or demonstrated in videos.
Were one to say, "But, your argument doesn't hold when the definition of Combat Accuracy is... instead." I suspect all I could say is, "Under than definition you are right."
However, I invite you to share your thoughts on what combat accuracy is and how it differs from what I found on the net.
That's an interesting way to describe combat accuracy. Rounds/kill or in the law enforcement (& self-defense) world, rounds/stopping the threat.Well, I guess we could try to use the military to get out answer.
From what I've found, by deviding the number of rounds fired by the number of insurgents killed we get about 250,000 rounds per kill. But some of that ammo was for training. Lets be nice and say 90%, sounds reasonable to me anyways.
So, military combat accuracy is somewhere in the neighborhood of 25,000 rounds per kill.
(I have no idea how accurate that is. Just pulled some numbers from the web and made some shit up)