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Old August 3, 2008, 10:07 PM   #13
YounGun24
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Join Date: July 20, 2007
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I was trained that it's a good idea to teach yourself to shoot with both eyes open due to the fact that dangerous situations tend to release adrenaline, which can impair fine motor skills. My firearms instructor said that that it becomes almost impossible to close one eye when under life/death stress. Your body keeps both eyes open as a survival instinct, and you should train for that circumstance. Think gross motor skills only when in combat. We've also been trained to rack our slide with our entire hand (four fingers over the top of the slide and squeezing against the meat of the palm...yank back) rather than trying to grab the rear of our slide with our thumb and index finger. Once again, gross motor skills dominate over fine motor skills under stress, so you might as well train that way.
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