In my younger days I dealt with reality, USMC Viet-Nam utilizing a issued Ithaca 1911A1. Lessons learned, what generations before had learned a Rifle is primary and a Handgun is secondary. I've jokingly said and occasionally wrote I've fired enough 45ACP at 25&50Yds to fill multiple 55Gal Drums.
Tom Givens has written in is earlier book and the current book Concealed Carry Class The ABCs Of Self-Defense Tools And Tactics using examples of his students involved in shootings along with FBI and DEA in regards to number of shoots fired and distance, you may want to research that aspect.
The likelihood of I being involved in a shooting, is under anything is possible, but likely not, as I avoid stupid people, places and things like a religion.
As for sighted fire I employ on my EDC TruGlo Tritium Pro on my EDC and I don't do the Carry-Rotation, strictly one primary and one backup on occasion!
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I dont do the rotation thing either and have had good, three dot night sights on any handgun Ive carried (that would accept them), for a long time now. A soon as they get their red dots down a bit smaller, and the price down with them, Ill probably go that route too. But for now, for me anyway, they just arent cost-effective, especially for multiple guns. And it would be a multiple gun thing, for me anyway.
Ive had red dots on a number of my rifles for about 20 years now, and there is no comparison when shooting them against any kind of iron sights, even those with tritium. I know exactly what they are like and how much easier they are to shoot with, especially quickly and reactively.
Its a dot that appears on your target, where youre looking at, as the weapon is presented. The round goes to the dot, and theres no other alignment or thought necessary.
Im always kind of amazed at how much weight people put on the statistics, and base things simply on that, and call that gospel for what they will likely encounter, should something go south.
I often think that a lot of that is because it fits with their shooting skill sets, and thats usually based on a static, close range, "slow fire" standpoint, not from anything realistic. Seriously now, how many do you routinely see practicing from how they carry their gun, anytime youre at a range? And especially the smaller, pocket type guns? Many if not most commercial and sportsmen type ranges wont even allow it.
Maybe Im off here, but, I always looked at this as an ongoing, lifetime thing, that needed constant tuning and learning as time goes on, and across as much as I could see being realistically practical. Not just what Im supposed to encounter at close range.
I may never have to take a 50 or 100 yard shot (but I have done it enough in practice to know what to expect), and I hope I never have to find out if I have to take any shot at all, whatever the distance or number of rounds, but I still work hard at being the best I can, with what I carry, and I try my best, to always carry what I shoot best with. The last thing I want, is for the first time for anything to happen, its my "first time" experiencing and doing it. Ive already done it, or something similar to it, in practice. The broader in your training/practice the better off youre going to be.
And of course, theres always Murphy waiting in the wings, to shoot all those statistics all to hell.
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