Nice to see someone actually apply the principles and practices that they clearly spent time in training on.
Absolutly no hesitation on that fellows part in getting upright, and aggressivly persuing learned tactics...sweet.
In todays world, simply being armed, or having a carry permit, is not the same as training for scenarios such as that one.
It makes the difference of being a victim, others being harmed, or even controlling the situation and doing a "no-shoot", with the reactions that come from ...practice, practice, practice.....and more practice.
I have been out of the competitive arena for over 15 years, but still the confidence and learned responses are with me...albeit not as sharp and fast as when it was a weekly routine, but like riding a bike, still there....
a couple years back a few of us COG'rs were invited to a defensive carry shoot at a club near Natural Bridge Va. during a rally....we all looked forward to playing the game with them, even though it was "thier" game. I ended up shooting the course of fire using a 6" bbl .44 mag, as I didn't bring enough speedloaders for my other caliber wheelgun, and didn't have a suitable autoloader at the time.... it was interesting to shoot the wheelgun against the rest of them shooting .45 & 9mm Glocks.....
I wasn't the worst shooter on the line, nor the best, but I got a lot of respect for the scores I shot against them in these timed fire events, where they went thru 3 magazines @ each stage.... that's a tough nut to recreate using speedloaders, but practice and familiarity with my equipment was my grace.
Lotsa fun. I look forward to jumping back into the Practical/defensive shooting thing again, now that I have a place I can do reloading.
this stage was very similar to the security guards scenario, you had to take on 4 targets, 2 in the head, nearest to farthest, then 2 in the body, same order, both strong hand and weak hand.... to complete the stage. Thats 32 rounds from start to finish......
"Dad" shot well that day
