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Old October 27, 2008, 03:28 PM   #7
Musketeer
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A failure drill is a failure drill, whether you're shooting a 9mm, a 45, or a 308 rifle.
Exactly.

PCP, Body Armor, Missing Vital Organs and CNS, Psychological State, all are reasons someone might not go down after 1, 2, or 10 rounds to the body. One thing is certain though, if 2 have failed your odds of having #3 to the body work are not nearly as good as they were with #1 or #2.

The old failure drill taught in the modern era no longer includes the "pause" to asses after the first two shots as explained by Gabe Suarez. The two go to the center of mass and the gun aligns immediately where the head should be. If the head is still there then SHOOT IT! If the head is not there it is most likely because he has gone down or staggered in which case you can asses the situation.

The rampage shooting in Tyler Texas and at the Red Branch High School in recent years are just two cases in which the criminal was wearing concealable body armor. In Tyler Mr. Mark Wilson engaged the criminal with his 45 and did make hits on the torso but was eventually gunned down when they failed to stop the killer. His actions saved at least one minor and possibly the LEOs who were hit on the stairs of the court house by buying time for more LEOs to respond and drive off the attacker before killing him later.

The lesson is, if you have hit your target a couple times in the torso and he has not gone down then try something else!


No handgun is a magic stopper and people have taken multiple hits from heavy caliber machine guns in wartime and continued to fight. Play the odds with your weapon choice but no handgun is a Star Trek Phaser set on Disintegrate!
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