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Mudinyeri:
I receive the monthly newsletter from Suarez International.  If you're not familiar with them, they are a training center focused on the "martial civilian".  From time to time their newsletter contains some thought-provoking content.  This month's newsletter headlined and article entitled "Concepts for Winning the Gunfight".  Many of these concepts are "no duh" kinds of things.  Others, I thought, mike elicit some interesting discussion.  Suarez doesn't provide an online version of their newsletter (someone needs to help them a bit with concepts for winning social media) so I've quoted the article below:


--- Quote ---Nothing makes you remember stuff than teaching it. And it gets even worse when you are writing up an international affiliate program that will reach thousands. As I was reviewing lesson plans I kept think..."of course", and "everybody knows that". But perhaps not. So here goes. In no particular order.

1). Caliber really is irrelevant in today's world. Don't get bogged down with it. I carry a 9mm and feel just fine about my manhood. Unless your focus is killing animals (in which case I would ask why you have a pistol and not a rifle), 9mm will do just fine if loaded with anti-personnel ammunition.

2). Carry a reload...at least one. Accessible with the non-trigger hand.

3). Appendix Carry is the fastest draw possible, because it is the shortest distance possible to target. It is also suitable for movement in any direction, and accessible when knocked on your back. It is also easiest to hide when concealment is paramount. Some will argue but I will happily show anyone what I have just typed is true.

4). If Appendix carry is good for a pistol, the other side of the buckle is perfect for the reload.

5). Force on force, and gunfight experience shows us that even when moving, the path to success is bringing the pistol up to shoulder height, seeing meat and metal, and then pressing the trigger until the bad guy falls. Below line of sight shooting is very impressive on the range in the same way that a jumping side kick is impressive...but you don't see jumping side kicks in the cage, or below eye level shooting in force on force.

6). The more fit you are, the harder it is to kill you. Conversely...the easier it is for you to kill others.

7). Shoot them to the ground is a term I coined in 1998. It describes how you need to shoot in a gunfight. Shoot them to the ground...and if needed...shoot them again...preferably in the face.

8 ). Clever gun drills are boring to me. Go do a set of weighted dips with your bodyweight equivalent hanging off a chain until you fail, then show me your clever gun drill shortcut. Bottom line is that if you cannot perform it at your worst, you may as well be playing with yourself. Picture your worst day...tired, beat up, hungry, sick, hung over, fresh from a fight with the wife and a dressing down by your boss, with sore hands and too many layers of clothing...THERE is your gunfight. Perform there.

9). This is about killing, and killing is simple. So many non-killers teaching killing these days. Ask a killer what works best. He will say the simple way works best. Why do non-killers want to complicate this?? Draw the gun, point it, and shoot them to the ground. If you see enough to guarantee the hits, keep at it. If not, seek more. The red dots really make things simple.

10). Gunhandling. Fixing problems and preventing problems. Preventing them involves not being ghetto in your cleaning habits and ammo choices. Fixing means getting the thing back into the fight when some son of a b**** is trying to blow your a** away. Do you want clever or simple right now? The simple way is to tap rack the pistol if it stops, and then to reload it if the first solution did not succeed. A secret - I really don't give a rats a** what the GSG9 guy that taught you said. He was scared as f*** in his first gunfight just like everyone else...and he did it the simple way, regardless of what he is telling you now.
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Thoughts?

Greybeard:
Toby,   I have never been in a gunfight. I am an Air Force retiree, a Viet Nam veteran who served in a combat engineer squadron and never fired a shot while there. I worked as a security officer after my military retirement, about six of those years on a federal armed contract. While on that job I became an NRA certified pistol instructor and trained the officers that worked for me. While on active duty I was a First Sergeant for 16 of my 29 years. I tell you all of that as background to state that I am not a shy fellow who would back away from a necessary fight. What you provided from the newsletter seems to be sound to me. If I have to engage someone in a gunfight, it isn't going to end in a draw, and there won't be any Marquis of Queenbury rules. I subscribe to Lt Colonel Dave Grossman's definition of a sheepdog.

Mudinyeri:

--- Quote from: Greybeard on May 12, 2014, 09:29:59 PM ---... it isn't going to end in a draw, and there won't be any Marquis of Queenbury rules.
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Well said.

Gary:
We live in an age, where daydreaming on TV and at the movies, seeps into our perception of realty.   We forget that Don Johnson got into a gunfight weekly on his TV show (Miami Vice) and was never hurt enough to stop filming another show.  10,000 shows like that one, and movies, and video games, have taught us, the outcome has no manifestation.  No consequences. 

In reality, no one wins a gunfight.   Unless you are a member of the BAR ASSOCIATION.

DenmanShooter:
Number 7 will get you a long stay in the grey bar hotel.

Shoot them to the ground, yes, then stop.  Unless they are still a threat.

None of this shoot them in the face while on the ground business unless it is SHTF WROL or you are actually in combat.

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