I completely agree with you FireForged. I get out every other year or so and have seen no deterioration in timed draw & shoots - 3 shots @ 3 yrds in 3 seconds, while moving. All were center mass (with a few heads shots thrown in) for the last practice evolution with my snub. If guys want too train like a Navy SEAL, that's fine. It all comes down to how you perform when it's showtime. Scott Norwood, of the Buffalo Bills, practiced kicking a lot of 43 yd field goals for his whole life, but didn't hit it when the SuperBowl was on the line. Drawing the gun, pointing, and pulling the trigger to hit a target a few times is not something I find particularly difficult. I have always felt the psychological mind set for a self defense shooting is the key; not necessarily firing thousands of rounds a year.
Exactly.. some people "get it".
If a person with decent armed fighting skills loses a gunfight, its not likely to be because they have not trained in the past 12-13 or 20 months.
The real problem is that a good many people fancy themselves as a decent fighter when really, they arnt. I know plenty of so called "elite marksman" who know little of nothing about actually fighting with a gun. Tactics and Strategics can make up for alot of things that a person might lack in the absolute accuracy department but it does not often work the other way around. This is (of course) assuming that the person has decent/average/acceptable accuracy skills to begin with. I tell people to focus on achieving decent skills which are actually relevant to a real fight, hone those skill in the proper training context and dont worry so much about putting thousands of rounds down range each year. You might do that initially but keeping the rust off doesnt really require all that much maintenance once you get there.
My goal is to be a competent fighter and not to shoot a jelly bean off a golf tee at 25 yards. A few millimeters might matter if you are shooting a jelly bean but not so much if you are gunfight with a thug. If your goal is to be so accurate to shoot a jelly bean.. ok, I guess you need to live fire train constantly and dry fire 2 hours a day.
Speaking just for myself, I do not have some sort of gunman, gunfighter, guntoter persona that I am trying to live up to. There is nothing special about me and I have always felt that most anybody can be a decent defender if they have the necessary mental grit. The whole gun handling thing isnt really the issue in my estimation, a little kid can do it. Its mental grit, emotional control, knowledge and judgment which is generally the issues that befall people.
