Years in training or weeks at the shooting range?

[Icetuete]

Remember you aren't learning Martial Arts only to learn Self-Defense, you get much more out of it than that.

 

yes, indeed. in addition to that, i dont like firearms... so i'd rather fight. a firearm situation is more likely to escalate in a life-death situation.

[mikS]

I hate to say it, but it would take WAY longer than a couple weeks of firearm training to be able to effectively shoot a moving person with it. Shooting a gun is not exactly easy, i suggest you all try it sometime .

[Sens55]

I hate to say it, but it would take WAY longer than a couple weeks of firearm training to be able to effectively shoot a moving person with it. Shooting a gun is not exactly easy, i suggest you all try it sometime .

 

Man, you said it. Anyone who watches a Hollywood movie where the hero shoots a .45 with one hand at a moving target 100 yds away and hits it and believes that's real has never tried to hit a moving target. While in the Army I put thousands upon thousands of rounds downrange, and as a civilian I put at least a few hundred a month and I know I would still have trouble past 50 feet in shadows and a moving target. Now, if that assailant would stand still like the silhouette targets at the range....

 

Actually I do miss pop up targets. Nothing like that around here (that I know of).

 

And to the previous post by someone about most altercations happening in public events and guns not being there....my advice is don't make that assumption in Oklahoma. They have relatively loose concealed carry laws and I know guys that pack going to church. And these aren't thugs or gang members. They're bankers, lawyers and business owners. Just thought you ought to know. In some places the wild west still lives.