Gun Training on “Hot” Ranges? I Say YES!

By Ammoland

By John Farnam

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- The “State of the Art!”

“There is nothing in this world in such dire need of correction as are other people’s opinions!” ~ Anon

Within my lifetime, our courageous progenitors, like Jeff Cooper, audaciously introduced us all to the “hot” range. He was ahead of his time! Prior to the “Cooper Era,” nearly all police pistol training took place on a cold range. In 1970, when I went to the Police Academy in WI, cold ranges were indeed the rule, and any suggestion to the contrary was heresy. Military ranges on which I had previously trained (prior to being deployed to Vietnam) were the same. Some of us young Turks discussed running a “hot” range, but only in whispers!

Today, hot ranges are the order of the day in most of the police training community. Frightening predictions that hot ranges were inherently unsafe proved erroneous.

Unfortunately, with the exception of a few elite units, our military has still not updated to the idea of “hot” ranges, and due to an intense …Read the Rest

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