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Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
He said, or was supposed to have said, something to the effect that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results was the definition of insanity. I thought it was the definition of practice.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
That would be a good definition of insanity.
Btw, Doc Brown's dog was called Einstein in Back To The Future.
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
If you have bad form or technique, no matter how much you shoot you won't reach your full potential.
I had a coach years ago that used to say "practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect."
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
It's like you said, all mental. You have to train your brain not to react to the explosion going off near your face. It takes practice and that requires range time.
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
I think this is the first time I've seen an ACTUAL crutch used in this role!
Seriously though, that's a pretty good video for the most part. I spend a lot of time helping folks learn to re-wire their brains to control that same reflex "flinch" response, and he's got some pretty decent methods of how to do that. I think he's a little too hung up on specialized equipment like airguns or dry fire training guns with auto-resetting triggers - because who, other than a dedicated training facility will have that? Small caliber will suffice. I DO like his method of telling folks to get on the trigger slowly and NOT take the shot if they feel themselves starting to clinch up.
Can't say I agree 100% on their statement of "pay someone else to train your family members". There is some truth there as far as the dynamics of family attention span goes, but they do seem overly assured of the fact that the whole world has its collective head up it's collective ass. It ain't necessarily so.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
― Douglas Adams
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
There are two things that will spazz you off target. First is the anticipation issue this guy is talking about. Second is jerking the trigger because of a perceived "need" to MAKE the gun fire at the exact instant the sights are perfectly placed on the target. That is the only real negative I see with single action or single action-like striker fired guns - they can fool you into thinking that's a workable option. It's not.
Shooting DAO with low recoil ammo is a good way to convince your "lizard brain" that the sights NEVER hold still over the exact "address", and that it's more about pulling the trigger in such a way that you don't force them out of the "zip code". Once the re-wiring is done, it's usually easier to run the SA and striker guns well.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."