I wanted to revisit this thread in light of the ongoing "targets" thread:
When you go to the range, what kind of targets do you take to use, unless your range supplies them. My range I belong to supplies the metal swingers on the handgun range, I also bring my paper targets, on the rifle, I bring mostly paper targets.
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The following was posted by Claude Werner on his FB page on December 30th, shortly after the shooting
To which Tamara Keel made this very astute follow-up:
Tamara Keel said:
And much larger than the USPSA “credit card”
And that's not even a moving target - heads are awfully hard to shoot at, and the geometry of a close-range encounter doesn't do the shooter any favors, either.
It's a heck of a shot under duress, especially if Mr. Wilson launched that .357-Sig in DA.
And what he's done makes me want to strive for better.
I think that Dunning-Kruger gets us all from time to time. I certainly was served a big piece of humble pie in the winter of 2014 when I realized that I could not make a 20-yard head-shot on-demand. I also think that a lot of us "don't know what we don't know" - until just very recently, I it wasn't even on the radar of my possibilities that a sub-second draw-to-first-hit at 10+ yards to the high-center-chest oval on an OPOTA target was possible not only from concealment (closed front garment), but at *retention*....or that we should be thinking about "retention" in the 7 to 10-yard sense.
I really want to strive to do better, and to help my fellow shooters strive to do better, too:
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So, with all the photos out there on the forum and the really nice bullseye shooting with no peper left...I just wonder how much time and care is placed on each shot? For defensive carry, combat situations, etc - are we hitting bullseyes or simply stopping a threat? Perhaps a bullseye should...
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^ The above actually came from a post I made on the XDTalk Forums, in the week after Mr. Wilson's heroic actions.
I said at that time that "I know what my shot timer and I are going to be playing, next time I'm at the range."
Guess what I did at the range with my daughter, on the day she turned 14?