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I don't think so, 30+ years of training. The vast majority of police involved shootings last less than 5 seconds and happen at lest then 5 metres. We trained at many different distances and scenarios but the life saving fight to win shooting was instinctive shooting. Your first round usually makes the difference between winning and losing the fight. You might get lucky enough to see your pistol and maybe the front sight but if you train to do that kind of shooting it all happens very fast and you often don't have or take the time to get a proper sight picture.
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I think people need to go through scenario training to understand. You also don't need sight picture to hit center mass at 3-5 yards. |
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The training is very different than the type of shooting most people do. I'm not really great at a distance, I could always qualify but it wasn't my strong suit. 25 yards standing you needed to get 6 in centre mass. No misses allowed. I would do it every time but not with a really tight grouping. Lots of recreational shooters would make fun of that as they would have these really tight grouping at 25 yards. But they didn't train to be in a fight where you were being shot at as well. I can hit centre mass a 3-5+ yards all day long and barely look at my sights. We would also train to shoot from the waist, single handed and weak handed. Lots of moving and shooting training to.
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It was a real eye-opener for me after my first trip to the range after receiving my CCW, where I was lucky to even hit the paper at 7 yards. On the way home, it dawned on me that 7 yards is roughly the distance between room doors in a typical hotel, school, or hospital! In an active shooter scenario, I'd have to wait until they were almost close enough to punch...even aiming center-mass.....
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Also, while it looks good to have tight groupings at the range (….all acknowledgement given to the skill it takes to achieve the feat), in the real world, spreading out the trauma to the body is the name of the self defense game. The more holes you poke in various places, the more taxing it is on the body to address. It is easier to deal with one centralized wound area than it is to deal with multiple.
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Many points to address. This is all for discussion; I'm not calling out anyone.
30+ years of police training. Police departments aren't known for keeping up with the changing training environment. I shoot in a just-for-fun LEO league with a bunch of cops. I've also shot IDPA and USPSA with cops. As a general rule, the average cop sucks at shooting. Quote:
What you might not be seeing/getting is proper sight alignment, but you should be pretty close. With proper training and practice, you'll be very close to sight alignment and sight picture even when you are shooting at max speed/ability. Quote:
Which brings me to the term "center mass." The proper term is center of mass and you shouldn't be aiming for the center of mass. The center of the mass of an adult human is close to the belly button, not the high chest area. You/we should be aiming to hit in the high thoracic cavity. That is where all the really important bits are: heart, lungs, aorta, etc. Putting rounds in that area is much more likely to result in physiological damage that will stop the man as opposed to shooting the same man in the gut. If you can take the time to aim your shots so that you are "spreading the trauma," then you can take your time to put your rounds into the heart/lungs/arteries. Pistols are poor fight stoppers. The vast majority of people shot with a handgun survive. The vast majority of people who stop fighting after being shot with a handgun stopped fighting because they quit psychologically, not physiologically. In other words, their fight emotion quit even though their bodies were still able to fight. All of the above leads to this: Use enough sight picture to allow you to put hits on target. Your target should be the thoracic cavity. Pistol rounds don't make "one shot stops." You'll need to put multiple rounds on target to increase your chance of stopping the fight. To get multiple quick hits on target, you need to have a sight picture. How fine that sight picture needs to be depends on the size of the target and how much time you have. If you are a law enforcement officer and you are point shooting when you don't have to, you are a liability to innocent bystanders and your department. |
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Getting range time in this area is darn near impossible. All of the sportsman/gun clubs with ranges are full with decade-long waiting lists for new members, and limit the number of guests that a member can bring every year. There is an indoor pistol-only range a few towns over, which is where my DW and I do all of our practice. I'd love to put a few rounds through my NY State-legal "ugly stick" AR-15, but that is probably not going to happen without a road trip.....
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FYI, the A/B/C pillars of a motor vehicle offer legitimate cover (…albeit slim, providing maybe 6-8" of cover). We performed the same test on a vehicle that another department performed which consisted of firing over 100 rounds into the B-pillar utilizing an AR15 loaded with 5.56 rounds. Approximately 156 rounds were fired into the side of an Explorer and not one penetrated the other side.
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I don't know what ammo you were using, but I've seen 5.56 go through the B pillar and the other side of the car. Same with 9mm. Seems to be based more on the construction of the car and less on the bullet. And luck. Cars do weird things to bullets. In classes with Kyle Lamb at the Sig Sauer Academy, we shot a variety of calibers and bullet types through cars. Some make it all the way to the other side of the car, some don't. |
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As a LEO, you are held to a higher standard, as you should be. You should be attempting to use a proper sight picture and sight alignment when you are able. If you are grappling with a suspect and you can't physically do that, then I understand that an "un-aimed" shot is appropriate, but everyone of your bullets has a lawyer attached to it who is looking for a reason to blame you. And in today's climate, the cop is a target. "we are trained to shoot the entire area from neck to belly bottom, shoulder to shoulder and hip to hip" Really? You're happy with just hitting anywhere on the torso? You don't want to try to do better? You're happy with lower standards? Why not train to hit anywhere on the body? If you are trained and graded to hit anywhere on the torso then what do you think happens in real life? Do you think you will do better when it matters, or worse? Do you think you will be able to make the shot when it counts? Will you be able to actually use your training? Your sights? If a proper sight picture isn't important for the common distance of OIS, do you train for that? Do you train in point shooting? Does your department or the California POST recommend that technique? I've never heard a person say "I shoot too accurately." |
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What I've learned shooting into and out of cars: cars may be cover. It really depends. The B pillar itself is only a few inches wide, but it is thicker than air. And if you ever need to shoot through a vehicle, use P for Plenty. Shoot a bunch of rounds in the hope that some make it through. |
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Yes, we are trained to shoot in that general area as it's considered a good hit. Sure, there are more accuracy points awarded depending on impact zone (…when we are qualifying), but in a self defense situation, a good hit is a good hit. I would love to put you through a scenario and see how you do. You might be surprised. |
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