Practical Firearms Training Distances......

[BugI02]

When it comes to training to shoot accurately at longer ranges, I have only to think of the shot that stopped the sawed off shotgun attack on the Texas church. Could we confidently make a shot like that - from an elevated position and over people's heads?

 

[cedartop]

Tom Givens has perhaps the best data set of self-defense incidents in which private citizens have been involved using a handgun for self-defense. Last I saw (circa 2017), 64 of Tom's former students had been involved in self-defense situations (could be a few more by now).

Here's an article with some of his observations from those incidents:

When Citizens Fight Back

Are We Training Wrong? The holy grail of firearms trainers and students has been to know what really happens in an armed citizen gunfight. Not in a law enforce

americanhandgunner.com

Using actual real life events of people just like us to train for encounters? Why that is just poppycock!

 

[nakinate]

Good on you for putting draw, movement, and mag change, in the mix, but you should improve your use of cover too.

I wasn’t practicing use of cover. The barrels were there simply for reference points for my movement.