Just a few observations -
Many things that people normally consider "unsafe" are in fact utilized in high-speed training.
Many people would stand aghast at a team of men conducting a live-fire room entry and clearing. Many people would balk at allowing people with loaded weapons behind the firing line. Many people would choose not to run a drill where your partner has to fire right past you.
This is one of the reasons that the C.A.R. training is not offered wholesale to civilians. Operators are professionals, and are trained as such. That may make some people angry - so be it. By many people's own admission they are NOT trained professional operators and that the tactics discussed on boards like THR should keep that in mind. I see no reason why this is different. I am not going to teach a civilian room entry and clearing tactics, explosive entry, or raid planning - is this unreasonable?
This does not mean that certain elements of the C.A.R. system are not available to the general public. Quite the contrary, the basic elements of the shooting stances and methodologies are not restricted. What IS restricted, is the plethora of other course material that is offered within the context of C.A.R. when applied to LE/Military. There are indeed tactics and planning courses that most LE/Military organizations would prefer to keep in-house.
The everyday civilian is not prohibited from benefitting from the C.A.R. system, it is just both uneccessary and inappropriate to teach SWAT tactics to civilians.
In the "Reaction" video, he isn't pointing the gun back at himself - he's reholstering.
On the "Speed 2" clip - the two shooters are engaging separate targets, moving independantly.
Castle is an extremely burly guy, he can shoot a 12 gauge with one hand no problem; I'm not, makes his style much more difficult.
I'm 5'11" and weigh in at 200 lbs - pretty average. I fired several 1oz slugs from that very same one-handed grip. It's not as difficult as it seems. I put more than 100 of those 1oz slugs through a Remington 870 with no noticable discomfort or soreness in the days following.
I don't like my .45 going off within inches of my face. With 'muffs it's damn loud, without 'muffs would probably blow my eardrums.
Do you really believe that your .45 is any quieter if you hold it 10-12 inches further out? I use a Springfield MicroCompact .45 as my secondary - it works just fine. And my eardrums aren't blown out. As for having to shoot without hearing protection - that's something you're going to have to deal with in a real-world situation anyways, because you're not going to have time to put in the ear plugs.
If used off- (left-)handed I don't see how you could avoid the shells being ejected directly into your face.
I'm an ambi pistol shooter, and I don't have this problem; in fact, I haven't been hit in the face with even ONE of my spent cartridges. Even if I weren't an ambi shooter, the system forces you to use the so-called "weak-side" and stresses familiarity with shooting from the off-hand. Above and beyond that, if someone cannot deal with a few ejected casings flying past their face or bouncing around a car or falling into a t-shirt on the range - how would one react when it counts? They are distractors, nothing more.
As for the people who discount training because of the "Title" or the word "Gunfighting" - what gives? Seriously?
Would a kinder, gentler word suffice? Would that change the course material or the fundamentals of the system?
I find that people who fail to do more than scratch the surface of a title often make the same decisions with their training.
Paul Castle has a saying: "
My ego is not worth the life of a single operator"
How many of us can honestly say the same?
