Any Practical Benefits to Rapid fire practice?

And it tells you how fast you can really do it if you had to...
which helps in all sorts of firearms competitions...
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It helps if you can shoot fast AND accurately. It won't help at all in any sort of competition that I'm aware of if you just shoot as fast as you can without being able to make hits.
This is going to be a screwy analogy, but hey, you work with what you know...
Its kinda like playing Bass guitar...you start slow, getting used to the feel,
the walking fingers, the slap style, and the pick...and you get competent...
until you can play well, and fast...
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Excellent analogy. But the key is building skill by a gradual improvement, not simply going as fast as is humanly possible without having built the skill to support the speed. Imagine someone without the ability trying to play a song as fast as they can possibly move their fingers and what a trainwreck that would be if they hadn't started slow, getting use to the feel and working until they were competent and could play well and fast. If they do that frequently, they're probably actually going to learn bad habits and prolong the time it takes them to learn to play competently and fast.

Same thing goes for shooting. Doing a mag dump just to hear the noise might be fun, but there's no practical benefit to it and it can actually teach bad lessons.
 
Is there any benefit(s) to practicing emptying your handgun as rapidly as possible?
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I'm sitting here watching Sharkanado 4 as I write this. I can honestly say no. There is no benefit to emptying your gun as fast as possible unless you can hit all the sharks you need to hit as you are doing it. If you can't hit the flying sharks you're just wasting ammo. It takes work and practice to get fast and accurate. Mag dumps aren't work and are not a part of any serious training. Just ask Tara Reid.

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Yes. Its called being under the ultimate stress of your life very possibly ending shortly. Dont think, just stop the threat. Hit the threat as many times as possible so you effectively stop said threat. You dump a mag into or at least AT a threat you have pretty much proven the panick you were in.
 
I emptied a couple of mags as fast as I could last time I was at the range.
I was function testing a gun that I just got back from the gunsmith.
Normally don't do stuff like that
 
Like to practice all differing ranges. Slow and accurate from 75 to 7 yards. Also practice rapid fire from 15 yards to up close. That includes just pointing over the top, to not even bringing the pistol up to aim (from waist level). We allow this at our outdoor range.

With so many carrying lighter calibers, the more rounds on target the better.

Was at indoor range one time, and accused of "rapid firing" on a target too fast, and "killing" the target too much. Was using a S&W M15 4 inch.

Accurate rapid firing involves a "rhythm" , and coordinating the recoil recovery, trigger pull and eyes. Then you can move on to lining up targets in a row.

Have also been accused of using full auto's at the range, when it was just a well used Ruger Mark 2. Kinda fun smoking a claybird up close.
 
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