{"id":65377,"date":"2016-11-02T10:38:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T14:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=65377"},"modified":"2016-11-02T10:38:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T09:34:13","slug":"ep-27-should-i-shoot-if-you-fail-to-train-you-may-fail-to-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/ep-27-should-i-shoot-if-you-fail-to-train-you-may-fail-to-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep. 27 Should I Shoot? If You Fail to Train, You May Fail to Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Training12jpg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-27-should-i-shoot-if-you-fail-to-train-you-may-fail-to-fight\" title=\"Ep. 27 Should I Shoot? If You Fail to Train, You May Fail to Fight\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ep. 27 Should I Shoot? If You Fail to Train, You May Fail to Fight\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-65420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Training12jpg-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"training12jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Training12jpg-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Training12jpg-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Training12jpg-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Training12jpg-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Training12jpg.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><em><strong>Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong> The following is a post from Sammy Reese, a former Marine Corps Artillery Officer and retired police officer from California. He is a part-time range master for the police department he retired from as well as a life-long martial artist and combatives coach.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Check out the last five episodes in this series:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/shoot-ep-22-initial-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-27-should-i-shoot-if-you-fail-to-train-you-may-fail-to-fight\" title=\"Ep. 27 Should I Shoot? If You Fail to Train, You May Fail to Fight\">Ep. 22 Should I Shoot? Do You Draw While Engaged in a Physical Altercation?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-23-should-i-shoot-are-you-as-prepared-as-you-can-be\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-27-should-i-shoot-if-you-fail-to-train-you-may-fail-to-fight\" title=\"Ep. 27 Should I Shoot? If You Fail to Train, You May Fail to Fight\">Ep. 23 Should I Shoot? Are You as Prepared as You Can Be?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-24-should-i-shoot-you-have-legal-justification-to-shoot-but-do-you-have-to\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-27-should-i-shoot-if-you-fail-to-train-you-may-fail-to-fight\" title=\"Ep. 27 Should I Shoot? If You Fail to Train, You May Fail to Fight\">Ep. 24 Should I Shoot? You Have Legal Justification to Shoot, But Do You Have To?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-25-should-i-shoot-take-a-deep-breath\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-27-should-i-shoot-if-you-fail-to-train-you-may-fail-to-fight\" title=\"Ep. 27 Should I Shoot? If You Fail to Train, You May Fail to Fight\">Ep. 25 Should I Shoot? Take a Deep Breath<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-26-shoot-officer-assist\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-27-should-i-shoot-if-you-fail-to-train-you-may-fail-to-fight\" title=\"Ep. 27 Should I Shoot? If You Fail to Train, You May Fail to Fight\">Ep. 26 Should I Shoot? Do I Assist An Officer Engaged in a Gunfight?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The big \u201cwhat if?\u201d is, \u201cWhat will I do when \u2018it\u2019 happens?\u201d The only way to really know is if \u201cit\u201d happens or we replicate \u201cwhat if?\u201d questions in training. It\u2019s been argued at length that training scenarios can be gamed and, since the students know they are in Simunition helmets or other types of protective gear, something is going to happen. I will agree they know something is up, but when put into stressful situations, they will react fairly closely to what they would do in real life.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been part of a teaching cadre for a class where we put the students into various situations ranging from hands-on defensive tactics to live-fire movement drills. Man-down drills are mixed in to turn up the stress some. The students have to administer trauma aid and continue to fight. As in real life, not every scenario is a black-and-white, shoot-or-run scenario. There is a lot of gray area and they have to process information quickly and accurately and then make the right decision. We record a\u00a0lot of the training to show the students what they really did when the stress levels were turned up. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a video has to be worth a million. \u201cI can\u2019t believe I did that\u201d is often heard during debriefs.<\/p>\n<p>As the class progressed, some of the students who initially showed they could function under the high stress continued to improve, some who showed signs of indecision and freezing up got better as they learned from their mistakes, and a few could not gain traction and would continue to make the same mistakes over and over.<\/p>\n<p>The old adage, \u201cYou will fight as you have trained,\u201d is not a cool-guy saying put on the back of t-shirts. I combine it with a quote I stole from Clint Smith: \u201c\u2026The possession of a firearm or knife does not transfer into competence in its use \u2026 we all have a brain but each of us uses it differently \u2026 you gotta train properly or you are setting yourself up for failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buying the newest handgun, rifle, tactical knife and all of that other cool stuff only means you possess some expensive gear. Until you learn how to use it properly, it\u2019s just stuff. Please do an honest evaluation of your skillset and find a way to improve on it. If you leave the house every day with a gun on your belt or you keep one in the house for protection, you owe it to yourself and your family to get the best training you can afford as often as you can afford it.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more critical information on the use of deadly force and other firearms and self-defense topics, visit\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscca.com\/GunsAmerica\" campaign=\"USCCAShouldIShoot\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">www.uscca.com\/GunsAmerica<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old adage, \u201cYou will fight as you have trained,\u201d is not a cool-guy saying put on the back of t-shirts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":65420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,234,216],"tags":[132,586,291,626,642],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-columns","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-column","12":"tag-dgu","13":"tag-opinion","14":"tag-should-i-shoot"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ep. 27 Should I Shoot? 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