Posted by Nom de Forum: Faster shot to shot times are important because we all tend to miss more and make less effective hits than effective hits when firing in self-defense.
That's an excellent point--and there's more.
We train to shoot at "center mass", or "center chest." One has little chance of hitting, for example, that small part of a moving head that would really matter in that kind of encounter.
But even a good hit in "center mass", or even two, may have virtually no immediate effect on the attacker.
We have to hit something vital.
But we do not have x-ray vision, and we do not have a complete working knowledge of the locations of all of the vital parts of the human body in our heads. Even if we did, we could not process that information and put it to effective use.
Mas Ayoob tells us that we should all have copies of
Gray's Anatomy on our bookshelves.
In any event, we need to unlearn what we have seen on the silver screen--that one shot will knock someone back through a door; we need to stop confusing the boom and blast at the muzzle with wounding effectiveness; and we need to realize that what we see when we shoot water jugs is not somehow relevant to cartridge selection for self defense.
We also need to realize that, in the perspective of the size of a human being, the differences in bullet diameters are just not very material.
A good way to do that is to reflect carefully on Post #40.
And that takes us right back to
Faster shot to shot times are important...
That, and to being able to get the gun out in time, and to achieve combat accuracy, should we ever experience the gravest extreme.
