Yea, well, I had to fire this parting shot before heading off for the weekend up to WV to, primarily, dig a latrine hole.
The Great Tactical Training Con:
I was just reflecting and re-read this AAR HERE
Here is an extract:
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"Tactical" vs Tactical
While over the past few years there have been a lot of 'tactical'
courses offered out there, I have never taken an interest in them. I can
sum it up in two words to explain why: Square Range.
There is only so much that can be done on the square range. I cannot
completely blame instructors as there is a fear of lawsuits and a lot of
facilities are not setup for this level of training. I have noticed
within the gun community (especially online) is the thought that
attending these courses, or even a lot of them, transforms a shooter
into an individual that can operate in the field as a soldier. I'm not
saying that this is explicitly stated, but there is are a lot of
implications made by those who attend courses and feel they are 'all
set.'
The square range can be good to teach fundamentals and get a shooter
familiar with his weapon. Short of that, if you want to train in how to
use your weapon in combat, you need to replicate that environment as
close as possible. Jumping around the range, walking around barrels and
shooting 1,000 or even 2,000 rounds in a weekend just creates noise and
shreds paper. I think I expended at most 300 rounds of ammunition in
his course. You are putting down accurate fire, not spraying rounds on
rapid fire, marksmanship counts.
If you want to have any chance of surviving an exchange of gunfire
you need a team. Not only do you need a team, you need a team that has
been trained and knows what it is doing. It is certainly exemplified in
Max's course.
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So I'm deciding to break cover, at the expense of potentially taking
incoming from some over this. But what the hell, so what? It needs to be
said.
It's something I think, and its why I deliberately designed my course
the way I have, and why I purchased the pop-up targets and set them up
in the way I have, in the woods in a realistic combat environment.
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