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Point Shooting Concepts: Years ago most police were trained to "qualify" at the pistol range with aimed fire on paper targets. This meant that the sights of the gun were lined up and the trigger "squeezed" to "score" hits on that paper target to "qualify". Yet when it came to actual shooting incidents on the streets , statistics clearly showed that there was no significant correlation between an officer's scores on the range and his or her shooting and survivability on the streets.
Officers' incident reports often said that they did not hear their own gunshots , even when the fight took place inside a small room! Most police felt that they fired fewer rounds than the actually did. When revolvers were predominately in use it was the norm for officers to fire every shot in the weapon.
Today, many experienced researchers of this phenomena attribute the fact that police prevailed in most shoot outs not to proper police training, but predominately to the fact that the "crooks" shot even worse!
Yet as early as before the Second World War experienced gunfighters such as Fairburn, Sykes and Applegate knew from their experience with the Shanghai police that the best training method to survive a real gunfight was "point shooting". You simply see the enemy , you point your weapon and you fire as the situation demands..
It is true that when you can use the sights of the gun this most often results in more accurate shooting. But in real gunfights, or even when defending yourself against an unarmed assailant, circumstances will seldom allow you to use the sights of the weapon. Hence, you better be trained to shoot this way and hit your target. Point shooting is combat accurate for most people out to 25 feet or so, with minimum training, when conducted correctly. That is about three times the distance that most real world shootings occur. By the time you complete this two day course, you will be able to draw and fire and hit, without the use of sights, to at least twice the distance in which most real shooting incidents occur.
Rubber Bullets in the Simulations, Real Lead on the Range: You will have the chance to fire on reactive targets with live ammunition on the RMCAT firing range. But frankly there are other nationally recognized firearms schools such as "Gun Sight" or "Thunder Ranch" etc that can do a fine job of providing you with that type of firearms marksmanship training.
But at RMCAT we feel that knowing when to shoot is even more important than knowing how to shoot. This is where the simulations become so important, because they give you experience in making these life and death decisions under adrenal stress, and not by shooting at paper targets, but at living, moving, & unpredictable human beings.
You are given basic instructions before you enter a scenario such as "You are at your place of business at night. Your possession of the weapon is lawful . When you go to the parking garage to retrieve some papers you encounter this person. Under this state's laws you may be liable for a charge of felony menacing if your draw your gun without lawful justification."
Sometimes, for example, the person may come up to you with a road map asking you for directions. But when he gets close he drops the map and suddenly you see it conceals a gun in his hand. Other times the man may seem like a an "EDP" (emotionally disturbed person) who approaches quickly and gets far too close to you, and then makes a quick move to retrieve something behind his back. Is it a gun? Or are you about to see his hand produce just a printed card that says "I am lost, deaf and can not speak , will you help me find and use a phone?"
You will learn how to deal with these and many other such situations in a way that maintains and protects your safety as much as is possible in the physical survival sense, and in the legal jeopardy sense as well!
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