Gunfighting Is A Thinking Man’s Game

By Bob Owens

I just stumbled across a video of a Gunsite Academy client—quite obviously, a member of the U.S. military—running through one of the shoothouses in the 223 Carbine Class.

Roughly the first have of the video is the student’s run through the shoothouse, and that’s followed by the most important part for the student, the instructor’s critique. It’s here where you discover just how badly you’ve screwed up. You learn from “dying” here (often repeatedly) so you don’t end up dying in the real world when it matters.

This serviceman was “killed” by the very first target, who was a bad guy standing outside an open window of the first room he was focused on clearing. You can see here where he would have taken hits at 1:12 in the video.

The serviceman developed tunnel vision, and was so intensely focused on technique footwork, angles, clearing the room and possible threats down the open hallway to his right that he didn’t see the bad guy just outside the window. It’s a very painful lesson that I learned almost the exact same way in 250 Pistol in 2014… Twice.

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Source:: Bearing Arms