At the NFOA meeting, in my workshop, I had people
1) draw onto a 12" plate at ten yards on the clock,
2) work on hitting multiple shots in a row at a 12" plate at 10 yards, and
3) under a little bit of stress, draw and hit a specified part of a target at 5 yards with three shots (target section was normally about 6-8" in size)
#1 Results: Fastest draw and hit was 1.35 seconds. Almost everyone had times in excess of 3 seconds. Many were in excess of 5 seconds. Several were over 7 seconds. (A few were over 10 seconds)
#2 Results: in 3 relays of 8, with 3-4 repetitions per relay, we
never had even 50% of the shooters get all four hits on the plate---even though this was not timed
#3 Results: In general, over half (in many cases, over 75%) of the shooters disqualified themselves as under stress, they missed a 6-8" target at a distance of only 5 yards. (That's only 15 feet.)
Many of these people were shooting from standard range holsters. However, a number were shooting their usual CCW firearm from concealment---in other words, this is the performance they could manage when under only a tiny bit of stress.
So, if you were one of those people, how do you think you would perform under the stress of a lethal-force-level encounter? Do you think that in a life-threatening situation, you would perform better?
This isn't meant to be snarky---as I said in the workshop, you MUST have a realistic appreciation of your skill level to make appropriate defensive choices.
If you have to contort your body to reach your gun, have to juggle it a bit to fix your grip after getting it out of the holster, have to use your second hand to take the safety off, and it takes you 5 seconds to get your first shot on target, and you hit about 2 out of every four shots at five yards---you need to know that.
Then, you need to
fix that. And that's what the HT class is about. The class is designed to teach people who to draw effectively and efficiently (which will get rid of the contortion/juggling/safety/time issues), how to perform proper trigger control
at speed, and how to reload efficiently.
Want to get a better draw? Want to get on target faster? Want to hit the target repeatedly at speed without misses?
Register for the HT class.
http://precisionresponse.4t.com/Schedule.html
