I agree with you. Training is better than nothing or just shooting paper. I get the impression some think that shooting competitive matches makes them ready for combat. There is no substitute for pulling a gun on someone that is intent on doing you harm. As you know, no one really knows how or how well they will respond until in the situation.AndyC wrote:To an extent yes, but some people won't survive the real deal so it's not a practical training tool ;)mojo84 wrote:AndyC wrote:I've seen the real thing a number of times and haven't frozen yet, but I can confirm that tunnel-vision, tachypsychia and auditory exclusion are very real effects - and that countering those can be partly learned shooting steel under match pressure, particularly in real-time man vs man events.
I'm sure shooting steel in competition is better than shooting paper. However. Nothing prepares a person better than the real deal.
I'm not claiming this will make you an unstoppable gun-fighter by any means - but if someone can't control their anxiety doing this, they're definitely not ready for a gunfight unless they're very lucky. Other than (hugely expensive) training in high-speed, 360-deg kill-houses, I can't think of anything else that's a simple and efficient way to replicate to a large degree a good number of those symptoms for the everyday civilian on an everyday range. It has to be against another human being in real time, though.
Nonetheless, you are on my team of things get jiggy,
