Kyle,
On your blog you posted about prioritizing your training time. Thank you, as I was a reality check. For me, as a patrol officer I realized I need to put more emphasis on my pistol skill over carbine.
I would like to hear your thoughts about prioritizing skills within the each discipline. For example pistol may break down into speed, accuracy, reloads, draws, and malfunctions. Obviously, you seem to be of the accuracy first school but how accurate is good enough before you focus on other things?
Accuracy is important, but you have to be able to get a first round hit (hit them before they hit you) SOMEWHERE, and you absolutely must establish fire superiority (this could be 2 rounds or a few hundred depending on the situation).
I’ve personally never had a situation where a reload was a game changer, and I’ve done a few during game day. The biggest thing to me was get it done somewhat fast. I do think that individuals who have little to no training and didn’t realize they’re weapon was empty, action opened, with empty mag in probably had a reload issue, but they most likely didn’t see sights or were no good at numbers 1-5.
A few questions here Kyle:
When you say “de-escalation of force”, what are some of the primary methods? Evasion? Verbal command? What worked for you? And if I’m already in a lethal force confrontation, how can I de-escalate in the force scale?
And for #3 and #4, doesn’t skills like draw and ready just part of sub-conscience gun handling skills?
How important are shot to shot split times, malfunction clearance and differnet shooting positions?
De-escalation of force - have a plan to kill everyone right now, then downgrading your violence from there if everyone doesn’t need to be killed immediately.
Sub conscience skills are not shooting skills. The best shooters in the world, both competitive and combat, from Dave Sevigny to Senior Chief xxxxx, all have handled guns so much that it appears to be natural., and that’s how it should be.
malfunctions, reloads are part of sub conscience skills