Yes, because there's absolutely no need to be concerned about those rounds that miss your target when out on the street!
Justin, I think we all pretty much realize there is need for concern in rds that miss the target, on the street in a real gun battle, maybe more so or maybe less so, it would be situationally dependant, of course.
You have heard and seen the stats that show solely sighted fire trained people miss an extrordinary amount of the time haven't you? You have seen the fed stats on errants rounds and % of misses by LE right over the last several decades haven't you? All trained to use their sights and lots of misses in gun battles on the streets. Those misses go somewhere, and I can't imagine my threat focused misses would be any more prone to killing an innocent than ones missed by someone using their sights.
Now the question may be, does threat focused skills create more misses than sighted fire? Good question, lets take a look at that if we can here.
I shot over 500 rds in two days with HSO from this forum recenly in the Knoxville threat focused course he sponsored for me. I had NO misses all weekend throughout those rds fired. Hmm, I used Quick Kill throughout the course demonstrating the techniques they were introduced to. I shot from the hip, upside down and backwards, from behind my back without turning around during that course as well as got students to do the same thing in short periods of time.
Lets see, no misses on threat for over 500 rds. How much thought needs to go into this idea of missing with threat focused skills if in fact the above is true? Lets also keep in mind I fired at a much faster rate of fire than I could have if I had waited to verify my sights in any way. That means more hits in less time on threat.
Isn't that what we train and practice for, for the street in the real world? It is to me, and I think it is to most who take gun handling skills seriously. It takes training, not an inordinate amount of it either to get people to hit what they are "looking" at, which is the threat, not their sights.
I was also seen demonstrating 2 inch groups with 54 rds through 3 mags out of the G17 from 15 and as far as 21 feet. Think I'm going to miss a threat that presents itself to be 16 x 21 inches in the upper torso on the streetfrom those distances?
I doubt it very much to be quite frank with you. I shoot threat focused skills using two and one handed Quick Kill as well as most people will ever shoot using their sights on the streets. All without ever looking at the gun.
I also know two here who were there in Knoxville who can do the same damned thing on demand now. One is HSO and the other is JMusic. These are not idle claims, read HSO's review of the course we are talking about.
To make fun of threat focused skills because you do not understand how to use them properly and with great effect seems to me to be less than objective in your comments and assessment of those skills.
I assure you, take the sights off any gun you hand me and I'll whack groups as good or better than most on the forums. How can I make that claim? Because I have been at this game for a very long time, and I know what I can do with a gun.
More importantly, I know what I can get others to do with a handgun in very short order. Here's the gun I use quite often when training people in my AO, notice no sights on the gun?
Brownie
it fills a need for getting rounds on target fast.
