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Everyone's a gimp with a .22 slug in the kneecap.. practice is fungible!
You don't have to be faster than the bear.. just have friends!I used to be an urban combat technician, then I took an arrow to the knee.
It's all about the fundamentals.. pay your dues and no need to get so fancy.So, it seems so far that a steady diet of potato chips, diet Coke and TV on the couch are a good training program.
Sweet...I guess I've been doing it wrong.
Sorry to sound facetious, I'm always interested in hearing about how others train as a shooter, how they get better.
It's all about the fundamentals.. pay your dues and no need to get so fancy.
Training comes in several levels. First off, straight out target practice until you are an accurate shooter. Real accurate. Think you are accurate??...go to an off hand shoot for a bit and see how that works.
Next is simple draw and point, mag drops and reload, tap rack bang drills. Then maybe some vehicle drills, exiting the vehicle to cover, using the vehicle as an offensive and defensive weapon. Don't forget to run some drills where the bad guy has a knife only too. This goes more to situational awareness side of things which is important as well.
I was on an isolated road in Central Oregon a couple weeks ago at a view point with one other car with an elderly couple there. We were taking pictures when a van drove up and a scuzzy looking dude got out and started a conversation with me about my OSU hat. ( Possible criminal intent interview). Not being completely comfortable with that, I conversed briefly with him and watched as another scuzzy guy got out, and then another. I glanced at my wife with the "look", she was behind our vehicle, I moved to give her an open field, and looked back and thought to myself, left to right with one shot each and move to the other side of the vehicle where a long gun was under a blanket on the back seat. I got to the other side of the vehicle with my wife, engaged the elderly couple in conversation and watched the dudes closely, which should have been very apparent.
They displayed no nefarious intent, and went about their business. I was pleased with our reactions, it was quick, rehearsed, and no addrenline (sp?) rush, and we went about our business. Was this the wrong reaction from me ? I train extensively in situational analysis and I feel it was exactly what I have trained myself to do.
If you know ex military types, they are a huge resource for training. Other shooters also possess great amounts of information they may share with you.