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Hi - I'm not really experienced at shooting people. I do know a bunch of guys who've been in wars, but I haven't really asked them about this. Massad Ayoob has done a whole lot of asking though, I thought you might be interested in some of what he had to say:
Ayoob is a nationally recognized author, director of the Leathal Force Institute, police captain and expert witness.
Hi - I'm not really experienced at shooting people. I do know a bunch of guys who've been in wars, but I haven't really asked them about this. Massad Ayoob has done a whole lot of asking though, I thought you might be interested in some of what he had to say:
Among the winners a significant number, uh, a number so great they can't be ignored will recall having aimed the weapon and referenced the sights.
[Jim Cirillo] recalled in his first gun fight seeing the front sights so intensly that he could recall every groove and striation on the front sight. Cirillo fired three shots, three hits and three neutralizations in three seconds
[LAPD officers who trained privately]were winning a much higher percentage of gunfights than the officers trained in ordinary techniques. In my opinion the Weaver vs. Isocoles and things like that had little to do with it. Virtually all of those men said they had become programmed - 'when that gun comes up I will focus on the front sight, I will put the bullet where it has to go.'
If I can give you any bit of advice, based on all of the studies, all of the survivors I have debriefed that would garauntee putting the bullet in the right place, it would be focus on the front sight.
Of the ones who have lost, a large number will describe "Point gun, pull trigger. 'Point gun, pull trigger.'
Ayoob is a nationally recognized author, director of the Leathal Force Institute, police captain and expert witness.