Mindset
Skillset
Equipment
In that order.
I've done Force on Force at the National Tactical Invitational with revolvers. I've participated in FoF drills in the monthly NTI study days with Sim rounds in revolvers. The equipment doesn't matter nearly as much as the mindset, followed by the skillset. In fact, I'll go as far to say as it really doesn't matter at all. If I'd had a gun in my hand that held twenty rounds, I'd have done no better, or no worse.
What mattered was I had a gun in my hand, and I had both the
ability and the
willingness to use it. And that was the same for
all the Practitioners who showed up over all those twenty years to participate.
In fact, when I played the role as aggressor/VCA (Violent Criminal Actor) . . . my preferred weapon was a knife. With merely a knife . . . confronting someone with a
better hi-cap gun but without the mindset, I
always got the better hand. Every time. Out of literally hundreds of exercises.
When I confronted someone who had good skillset/ability,
but not the mindset, it was a toss up as to how well I initiated the encounter as to how it would turn out.
But when I confronted someone who had poor equipment, and limited ability, but the mindset to win no matter what the obstacle . . . I was in trouble as an aggressor.
