Posted by
Radny97:
I could probably pull off the shots in that time (5 shots in a little more than a second, 9 inch target) from low and ready but a draw too? No way.
Nor can I. I somehow completely missed "draw and".
Add the draw time. Try for a little over 2.5 seconds
total from the stimulus, nominally and as a general objective. I would not get hung up on timed exercises, and I would not shoot at same target from the same place repeatedly.
The classic Tueller demo shows an attacker with a contact weapon moving about 21 feet, on average, in the time it takes for a defender to draw and fire once. That shot then occurs at point-blank range, and one hit is unlikely to stop him in time.
My point was that those who go to the range and shoot at a rate of about one shot per second should consider that an attacker can probably move at about 5 meters in that second.
I'm not a fan of the "shoot twice and assess" school of thought. Should one find that two shots did not prove sufficient, the attacker will have moved that much closer.
Many defensive shooting instructors generally train very rapid shooting--say, about 4 shots in a second
after drawing, in at least some of their drills.
The most recent course I took called for lateral movement and drawing while moving.
The defender has to balance speed and precision. If one is shooting great groups, one is almost certainly firing too slowly for a close-range encounter with a charging attacker.