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Originally Posted by NousDefionsDoc
I agree Gene, but I look at it this way" One hole (or really good groups) at 3, 5, 7 10 will probably spread to 6" (or better) under two-way range duress. And we have to have a goal to shoot for in training, so it might as well be a good one.
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Roger -- we do dot drills with guys as well but with a differrent intent if that makes sense. We prefer to emphasize recoil control, speed, precison, and mental agility although not necessarily in that order. My experience is that unless one is using some very small targets (dots), the close range work damages to ones marksmanship skills. So we use them for the purposes stated combined with steel at longer ranges so they can make the mental transition between a big target up close to a small target farther away. Ball and dummy some guys after they have shot dots sometime. He, he, he.
We don't do any formal weak hand training because the Army doesn't emphasize it and the amount of time needed to develop a weak hand into anything sustainable is significant. Just our decision to focus resources on things we view as most likely to occur.
We have to watch how our guys respond to drills as Joe will turn them into a competitive sport pretty fast and will begin to do tactically unsound things to 'win'. This actually makes a course pretty interesting for everyone as staying ahead of Joe really demands a huge amount of intuition and imagination.
Gene