We mention an awful lot that you should make sure that you are trained to use your firearm and that you are getting time in with your gun so that, if the worst happens and you have to use it, you can do the awful thing that may be necessary to save a life. Put simply, you want to be able to shoot accurately if you have to pull the trigger.
But, while we can all agree that being trained and practicing regularly with your firearm is important, there are some people who have ideas that are less than ideal in their training, and those ideas may end up getting themselves or someone else killed in a real world situation.
For example, one common idea that you hear taught in firearms training is to draw to first shot. The thinking with this idea seems to be that you want to be so practiced with drawing your firearm and taking that first shot that you can do it incredibly fast, almost without thinking.
And there’s a logic to that thinking. After all, the person that gets the first injury can be who wins a fight.
The problem with this thinking in firearms, though, is that, maybe due to adrenaline and the stress and chaos of the situation, the first shot often doesn’t stop an aggressor, and a second or third shot has to be taken to stop the attack.
So, if you’re training to draw to first shot, are you preparing for those follow up shots that you need to take?
Watch Carter’s short video about this concept below.
Carter is exactly right: your grip is incredibly important, especially if you want to survive. You need to practice drawing to two shots. Because practice doesn’t make perfect; practice makes permanent. Perfect practice is what makes perfect.
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