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After a long week of advanced pistol training and certification with many of our brothers from Colorado Law Enforcement (hats off to Douglas County Sheriffs Dept for hosting this event), I was reminded, amongst other things, the relationship between time and distance. We need to focus on fundamentals at longer distances, and when the distance is short, we have a very small amount of time to solve our problem. Like less than a couple seconds.
To illustrate the later, we ran a daytime drill allowing an officer to start running away up range (officers are back to back moving opposite directions), allowing another shooting officer to draw and fire on a paper target downrange when he moved away from his back. The purpose was to see how far the running officer could make it before the shooting officer got a shot on the target in front of him. About 21 feet was the shortest distance with 40 feet being the longest.
We ran the same drill except for this time we allowed the shooting officer to start from a low ready position. All running officers made it less than 5 feet.
Here are some facts:
1. The majority of gunfights happen at night
2. The majority of gunfights happen in less than 2.5 seconds
3. The majority of gunfights involve more than 1 threat
4. The majority of gunfights happen within 5 feet
An experienced, aggressing knife attacker will generally win a fight within 21 feet without reciprocal preparation. If you’re lucky, you’ll get shots off. The problem is you won’t be around long enough to claim it. Preparatory steps, in this case, might involve having my hand on my pistol or even being at low ready. Add night, multiple threats, close distance, and under 2.5 seconds into the equation and my training better be spot on.
For those of you who keep telling yourself I’m going to get some professional training, I can tell you the time is now. Our world is not getting better. The wolf packs out there are growing and its time for us sheepdogs to step up our game. I beg you to get professional training from someone who is qualified.
Remember, if you’re going to fight, then fight to win. The fight includes continual training and practice!