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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. Also, no one knows for sure how they would respond until they are faced with the real deal. I'll take a guy that's been there and done that for my team.

Exactly why I'll take Andy on my side!

AndyC wrote:

In the scenario oriented training I conduct with both my police and armed citizen classes, the “lookout” scenario almost always leads to the cop or armed citizen being shot. No matter what amount of training you have done, it is difficult to control the tunnel vision reaction. In this case. the physiology designed to help us actually causes our demise as we overlook the lookout in order to pay better attention to the criminal we are confronting.

http://www.activeresponsetraining.net/y ... r-lookouts

Criminals are adapting to the fact that there are armed citizens who may confront them. A second person or even third as a lookout is one that is more and more common. Another tactic I've noticed is multiple armed actors entering together; often armed with long arms, i.e. shotguns and AR/AK's. As OC becomes more prominent I suspect the criminals will go after them first as they swamp their targeted establishment, and either take their weapon or shoot them on the spot and then take it. Criminals are stupid, but they ain't dumb.