Hi All,I am lucky to be a part of a "citizens police academy". Part of the experience is a course on use of force and then one of simulator training. The simulator was yesterday and it was more educational than any shooting and moving practice I've ever had. Some of these "tactical" style classes should give more time to this. Your draw is important, your aim is important but so much more goes into being alerts.Their equipment was old, I had actually seen some of their scenarios floating around YouTube but with different endings since someone was at the helm. Even being somewhat familiar with 1 of the scenarios they were great. Here's some of the scenarios.1 - This is the one I had seen on YouTube albeit with a different result. You and a partner go to a gym, separate two people fighting. While you are talking to one he gets more and more aggravated, pulls his weapon and fires on you. It takes about 30 seconds while they separate but once you are 1-1 with the dude shit goes downhill in maybe 5 seconds.I did OK in this but still was shot. I saw the guy start leaning to clear his draw, drew and shot him. I'm not sure if it would have worked out this way but he still shot me even though I got the first shots off. The officers complimented me on my reaction time and draw but really I think what saved me most was a that I shoot so I know what a draw or prep for a draw looks like.In debrief is where this gets nuts. There was a mirror because we were in a gym and you could actually clearly see the firearm behind the guy the whole time. As a CCW I'm not sure that would help, but as a police officer you could draw right then. The next eye opener was my shooting . I shot the second I cleared retention. I hit him too at about 4 yards. I ended up shooting 12 times and hit I think 7. I hit 5 from retention of about 8 shots and hit 1/2 of the shots where I finally had the gun up all the way. If I had waited to get a good picture I'd not have got the dude. My missed aimed shot I had my front post all the way to the right of my back posts as the guy moved I remember knowing i messed that shot up. Bad aiming on me I needed to pivot more. That being said my first aimed shot was a head shot.All in all that was eye opening. I tried very hard to get into the scenario and once you let the its a simulator go you treat these things seriously you fuck up and react just as you would in real life. From this scenario I think I learned:Watch out more. The second the dude was agitated I just focused on his hands. That got me a good shot but I could have seen the gun and taken cover in real life.Be ready to shoot from shitty spots. I rarely practice retention shooting but when something even fake has a gun coming out, you're going to shoot scared man. It was also hard to get myself to chill out and close an eye when aiming. Two eyes open shooting is in the books.Capacity is some real shit. I would have had to reload my gun a g43 in this scenario. I carry a reload, but it was nice using a 15 round double stack. I'll be trying to rotate in my XD subcompact some more or trying to carry my 19.Capacity is some shit if you are used to shooting. I did not record it but people who did not shoot frequently shot 1-2 or no rounds. I knew what I had and went to town. Honestly I think this is fine. Getting shot would scare my target even if I miss. I am no longer just hypothetically in the 5 rounds of 357 is enough club. This re-enforced my spare mag to the max.You will remember your experience a few seconds in. Once I got over the oh shit gun fight my brain got to ok get the gun up, put the rounds in an important spot and end this. It was really surprising. If you can get yourself to seconds 4-5 of a gunfight you will win. We need to practice our oh shit repsonse. I will be retention firing at the range this weekend for sure.2 - I did far better. Second scenario had some dude breaking in a car. You get a radio saying he's wanted on assault on an officer. You walk up and he has a obvious holstered gun. He's half in a car.I ordered him back figuring his mag, a rifle or his escape as in the car. He kept trying to put his hands in the car I said get back get down. He was talking but obliging my orders. He eventually after bitching about going to jail gets out of the car, gets his hands up and lays down.In the feedback the officers were surprised I made his gun so fast, but again he was carrying 5 oclockish and it was obvious to someone who carries. I was told to get the gun out the second I saw it. I was also told to get my hands both on the gun even if low ready which is very true. But other than that I was complimented for noticing he was not being furtive, kept his hands in view and noticing while armed he was not really threatening and did not need to be shot.Learn to read people and watch their hands. If someone is giving up don't shoot em!We ran through a few more, and frankly I'm going to ask to come do more if I can. The experience was great and more so the feedback from police firearms instructors is worth thousands of rounds practice. via /r/CCW http://ift.tt/2nlRhNg
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