Certain people are satisfied with their accomplishments and don’t need to make sure and bowl a perfect game for the internet. Also in addition to shooting those guys need to make sure they can carry their body weight in gear, jump out of planes, sneak up on the enemy, kill everyone who needs killing and get away clean. That they sometimes miss on the range is probably not something they worry about too much.
That is something I have noticed with me after a bad shot sometimes get aggrevated and not do a follow up shot. Something I need to work on.
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Well…you’ve done the hard part which is honestly evaluate yourself and recognize areas in need of improvement. Now you just need to do the easy part and work on it. You are ahead of the game.
This opinion may not be well received, but one of the things I find with a video like that posted earlier, is that it’s very gamey. That video definitely looks like someone running a well-practiced course of fire. Do it enough, run the stage a few times, and it’s easy to do. It looks like a 3-gun stage. I’d like to see video of a cool guy running that course for the very first time. I bet he’d have more misses, his ammo consumption would be higher to make up for those misses, and he’d be slower. Not saying he wouldn’t nail everything, but it would be a far less rehearsed run. And I’d be willing to bet given equivalent time on the stage, a full-time gamer would probably run it cleaner and faster.
I’m not trying to knock anyone that does that, but I don’t put a whole lot of credence into videos like this. Like mentioned before, how many takes was this?
Also, KASOTC is pretty amazing in it’s adaptability. I know a couple of non-firearms industry guys that did some work there. Pretty cool place. “Burnt corpse” fake smoke is not a smell I ever want to experience again, let alone in real life.
That was one of the most applicable reads for me that Mr. McNamara has written, I can tend to dwell on misses/failure instead of pushing on and not getting bogged down or potentially worse by a mistake.
I always tell people when shooting that they must focus on the task at hand, ie completing the course of fire, and not focus on holes in the target.
Hit analysis is for after.
If you lose focus during a string, the remaining shots will suffer.
If it is a course of fire using reactive targets of some sort, then you will need to follow through and engage until the target drops, audible/visible feedback is given etc.
Thank you Sir! Sometimes its the little things that make up the big things I guess.