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Learning how to shoot around
cover with simple barricades is
fine, but the first time you shoot
around real objects shouldn’t be in
a real gunfight. This is an example
of training in context.
The Warrior Expert:
Counter Ambush
[ BY ROB PINCUS ]
What do we mean by Defensive Shooting?
When we talk about developing
defensive shooting skills,
what exactly do we mean?
What skills do we need and under what
circumstances are we anticipating the
need to use them?
It is important to note right here at
the beginning that all shooting is not
the same. I often refer to “driving” in the
same way that I am talking about “shooting.”
Just because you are using a vehicle
with four tires and an internal combustion
engine doesn’t mean you are always
doing the same thing. People who
live in a congested city drive differently
than people who live out in the middle
of nowhere. They need different skills
and maybe even different types of cars.
Driving on snow is different from driving
on a banked oval racetrack. Driving
for pleasure is different from driving to
transport material from one place to
another. In the same way, target shooting
is different from trap shooting and
defensive hunting is different from competition
shooting. If you are having an
emotional reaction to the last couple of
sentences that involves the use of the
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word “fundamentals” or a specific concept
like “trigger control” that makes
you want to say it all boils down to the
same thing ... consider whether or not
you had the same reaction in regard to
the driving comparisons and something
like holding your hands at “10 and 2” or
pressing the gas pedal smoothly. Maybe
you did, or maybe, like many people involved
in shooting, you’ve been conditioned
to think that there is one way to
shoot properly.
Answer these questions about what
we mean by “Defensive Shooting” and
the circumstances under which we will
be likely to be doing it:
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