Rich Lucibella
Staff
TMS-
I beg to differ. Many would argue that your definition of the "double tap" actually decribes the "controlled pair"....two sight acquisitions, two shots. The classic "double tap" entails one sight picture.
In any case, you're right on about the concept of the technique regardless of the philological nuance: Two A Zone hits as fast as practicable.
Gunfighter-
The "geometric" damage theory had to do, I believe, with the rag-writers proposal of putting the second shot into the original "zone of injury"....my terminology is foggy here; Walt Welch will probably remember.
Thus, it was argued, two rounds on top of each other, would create "quadruple damage" compared to the "double damage" of two rounds a handsbreadth apart. Of course, lack of data did not get in the way of these "pronouncements"; nor did common sense, human anatomy or human physiology....it was junk science from the git.
Good rule of thumb:
If you're making little figure eights, go faster. If one round is missing the kill zone, go slower.
Rich
I beg to differ. Many would argue that your definition of the "double tap" actually decribes the "controlled pair"....two sight acquisitions, two shots. The classic "double tap" entails one sight picture.
In any case, you're right on about the concept of the technique regardless of the philological nuance: Two A Zone hits as fast as practicable.
Gunfighter-
The "geometric" damage theory had to do, I believe, with the rag-writers proposal of putting the second shot into the original "zone of injury"....my terminology is foggy here; Walt Welch will probably remember.
Thus, it was argued, two rounds on top of each other, would create "quadruple damage" compared to the "double damage" of two rounds a handsbreadth apart. Of course, lack of data did not get in the way of these "pronouncements"; nor did common sense, human anatomy or human physiology....it was junk science from the git.
Good rule of thumb:
If you're making little figure eights, go faster. If one round is missing the kill zone, go slower.
Rich