I actually have a anadote to share on this subject, which is what I was refering to in my orginal post.
My shooting history is a little diffrent from most folks I've met.
My Dad has been collecting guns since he turned 21. His main focus has always been SD shooting and combat small arms. He was "self taught" and spent a lot of time, through trial and error, figuring out how to shoot and how to shoot well. His major inflances were writings by Cooper and *brain fart* the other guy who's name starts with an A. He and his buddy would also watch action flixs and actually try (what they could safely) to do stuff they'd seen for funnsies. (so when my Dad tells you you cannot run shooting at the bad guys and have them all dropping, he's not just speaking from hearsay.
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So when his 8 year old little girl learned to shoot, she got taught what he knew how to teach. I got the basics on gun saftey and trigger control with an AR-7 and then it was straight over to semi auto pistols, shooting center mass on man sized targets (he drew creatures from the old monster movies instead of people to keep it sorta PC) at between 10 and 15 feet with rapid fire and double taps.
The biggest diffrence between what he taught and what the OP advocated was that he stress shot placement, and would start slow and then get me to speed up as I gained proficiency.
When I got older, I joined 4H and the local chapter had a shooting club. That's where I learned 3P. A totally diffrent style and not really anything obviously SD shooting related.
The thing was stuff I learned on those ranges had a PROFOUND impact on my orginal disapline and benifited me immensly.
After that, the next big thing was when I got my Model 19, which was the first revolover I ever shot, at 16. With time on my iwn to practice, I did a lot more slow shooting and consentrating on smaller groups and targets at longer distances.
Again, my skills improved drastically when I went back to SD practice.
And it's not just the fundimentals and all practice makes for better shooting. Sometimes it's the weirdest stuff, that you otherwise just wouldn't think about, othertimes it's the little tricks of the trade that you go "hey, if I apply that to SD shooting it might really make a diffrence."
I say that if you want to be REALLY GOOD at one disipline (which I'll admit, I'm not nearly as good as I wish I were) you should experiment with as many diffrent disiplines as you can, because they all have something you havn't tried before and you'll never know what can benifit you until you try it.