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The Balance of Speed &<br />
Precision Target offers<br />
several opportunities for<br />
different levels of deviation<br />
control and variations on<br />
commands to fire all on one<br />
piece of paper. Waiting in<br />
front of this target for any<br />
of a number of commands<br />
will force the shooter to<br />
process information prior to<br />
shooting, just like in a real<br />
situation.<br />
stances we will be fighting (related to the<br />
answers to many of the questions posed<br />
above) will place us where we should be.<br />
I find that approach to be akin to saying,<br />
“You can’t really practice the right thing,<br />
so we’ll just give up and practice something<br />
that makes us feel good.” Shooting<br />
a nice tight group or seeing your shot go<br />
“right between the eyes” does make you<br />
feel good—no wonder this approach<br />
has been popular. The fact is that the<br />
time component of defensive shooting<br />
is always going to be “as fast as you<br />
can.” Training to shoot one-inch groups<br />
means that you will condition yourself<br />
to shooting well at that pace. That pace<br />
may not stop the bad guy fast enough<br />
when the answer to question #9 is, “No.”<br />
In the competition, the emphasis on<br />
time as the measurement of success has<br />
placed at the top of the list an emphasis<br />
on performing a known task under<br />
controlled conditions as quickly as possible.<br />
Again, knowing that the answers<br />
to the questions above will be very different<br />
in a truly defensive shooting<br />
situation (especially questions 2 and 3)<br />
changes everything. Look at steel shooting<br />
for example: Things like plate racks<br />
or speed runs on large steel train us to<br />
swing our gun through a known pattern,<br />
timing our pressing of the trigger based<br />
on prior experience. The human body<br />
has the capacity to get very, very good at<br />
MAY/JUNE 2011