He did state that he had practiced many times, but obviously something went wrong. He was very fortunate to have "dodged the bullet", well almost.Excaliber wrote:I would attribute 80% of this incident to trying to work at speed with apparently insufficient training in two substantially different gun and holster systems that require substantially different movements to perform the required task.
Various types of failures are often the result when one tries to take task execution beyond a conscious step by step process and work from "muscle memory" or whatever one prefers to call a trained stimulus / response sequence under these circumstances.
This holds true with any psychomotor skill, but when guns are involved, the results are often serious and permanent.
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- Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:57 am
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: Video: Guy shoot himself on leg while drawing from holster
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