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Old June 29, 2012, 02:13 PM   #20
Frank Ettin
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Originally Posted by BlueTrain
...There are even levels of training beyond advanced,...
But let's start at the beginning. It helps if folks at least can handle their guns safely and reliably hit the target. The reality is that a lot of folks can't even do that.

I see many people at the ranges I frequent who are poking hole all over a large silhouette target -- at seven yards, slow fire, no stress. Their gun handling is atrocious as well. And these are often people who go to the range regularly. But they haven't learned even the fundamentals well enough to be able to practice properly to improve. They become experts at missing.

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Originally Posted by Buzzcook
...If your thesis correct then wouldn't it follow that most of our training should be focused on how best to display a handgun in a forceful manner?...
There is something to being able to look like you mean business, as they say. Massad Ayoob says that the criminal isn't afraid of the gun; he's afraid of the person who looks prepared to use, and capable of using, the gun.

But being able to use the gun also helps if just displaying it turns out not to be enough. And you do need to be able to figure out if/when that has happened.
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