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Recoil is extremely relevant in our profession; rarely do we have the pleasure of facing only one armed adversary.
Airsofters, the US Olympic Shooting team, IPSC shooters all have one thing in common, they will never be in harms way because paper targets don’t shoot back. They practice for and compete in games. The distressing dilemma we face today is that many people that make a living being in harms way have taken lessons from “gamers” and deer hunters.
While the best IPSC shooter in the world might make one an impressive shot, the improper application of tactics in a real world fight will get one killed as fast as a knife fighter in a gun fight. I have witnessed, first hand, world class IPSC shooters engaging paper targets, utilizing movement techniques to close with their targets that would get one killed stone cold dead in a “real” fight.
You do not send an A-Team to hunt for a bank robber; you do not send a four man local sheriff team to hunt an unknown number of heavily armed terrorists. LEO’s do not take this as an insult, we merely have different ROE and different training. Most state, local and federal agencies cannot afford to spend tens of thousands of dollars on individual shooting skills, US Special Operations can and does. (I sleep well at night knowing the local LEO’s stand guard in my current AO.)
If it’s your desire to punch paper by all means take lessons from an IPSC shooter, want to deer hunt, read deer hunting magazines and take lessons from deer hunters.
If it is your desire to keep America safe and place bad people behind bars become an LEO, they live in harms way each and every day.
If you desire to keep the world a safer place, try out for one of the many SOF positions available in today’s military.
De Oppresso Liber
Team Sergeant
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