Someone messaged a question to us and Id like to post the answer here for our FB fans to see. The question was: Do you teach accuracy? The answer is, yes. What type of accuracy depends on what course you are taking and what you are training for. For example, in our Concealed Carry Class, we do not work on bullseye shooting techniques. Your goal, in a self-defense situation, is not to put tight groups in a bullseye paper target at 25 or 50 yards. Your goal is to defend yourself quickly and accurately, under extremely high stress, just enough to stop the threat and get yourself or loved ones out of harms way. Concealed Carry is a safety and shooting basics course that qualifies you for your Ohio CHL and we work to prepare you, as best as we can in a 12 hour course, for safe gun handling, knowledge of self-defense law, and REACTIVE shooting. Reactive shooting deals with engaging a threat quickly and accurately enough to hit a center mass area without relying on time to take aim-- gain a sight picture, hold, and squeeze. In a 3 to 5 feet engagement scenario, you will not have time at that close a distance to extend and gain a sight picture nor would you want to simply hand the assailant your weapon. For those close distances, we teach students to shoot from a close retention one-handed hold, aka from the hip. In drills 10 feet to 21 feet, where a two-handed, fully extended stance is usually employed, we teach proper body alignment and front sight/press--focus on your front sight and press the trigger smoothly. In all drills 3 feet to 21 feet, the goal is to align yourself to your target so that your natural point of aim is achieved both on retention and extension, then your successful center mass shot mostly relies on pressing the trigger smoothly. By the end of our CCW course, EVERY student will have demonstrated shot groupings in center mass at the following hit rates: 3 feet to 15 feet=100%; 21 feet=70% minimum (with most hitting 100%). This is effective reactive shooting. Conversely, in our Defensive Pistol Advanced course we go more heavily into accuracy with a handgun. We have 6-8 hours on the range and we are shooting for most of that. We work thoroughly on advanced reactive shooting and natural point of aim, moving and shooting, shooting around cover, etc. However, we also go into sight picture and hold and take students out to 25-50 yards. At these distances, even small mistakes start to manifest as large misses. It shows you and the instructor where the mistakes are and how to correct them. You begin to understand more deeply the mechanics of an accurate shot with a handgun and your shooting immediately begins to improve. We also combine the techniques of sight shooting with reactive shooting and once everyone has thoroughly demonstrated safety and competency in their gun handling and holster work, we shoot what we call the qualifier drill. Everyone gets in line with full magazines. When its your turn, you get one, timed, fast draw shot on a small steel plate at 21 feet. (The qualifier is based upon the findings of the Tueller Drill.) You continue getting in line until your magazines are empty. This is where you get a realistic picture of your capabilities and weaknesses in a quick reaction self-defense situation. And remember, under the stress of a deadly confrontation you can expect to perform only half as well as you perform on the range in practice. Accuracy is a term relative to the purpose you are shooting for. The only way to achieve higher levels of accuracy is to learn the mechanics of accurately shooting and then practice, practice, practice!
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 05:44:47 +0000
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