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An interesting, but academic, follow up. Last night I took part in a traveling training program our state is putting on. They have been in our county now for a couple of weeks and I guess I was the last of about 50 L.E.O.s in our little region (not all from the same agency).

It was a good 15 minutes of simple marksmanship training on a simulator similar to a FATS system followed by 45 minutes of decision making scenarios. I was keenly interested because I run a 12 lane FATS and I have seen most of the scenarios. You only test yourself on things you are seeing for the first time.

Unfortunately they only had two choices in lethal weapons; a Glock 23 and a Sig 228. Neither fit my hand but I picked the Glock. Naturally, it would not fit in my 1911 holster so I had to stick it in my belt (concealed). Probably half of the more than a dozen scenarios ended up with coming to the ready (subjects escalating the situation, body language, etc).

One scenario applies directly to this thread; It was an Active Shooter in a High School. As the "testee", you see through the eyes of the camera, moves down the hall you first see students who have been shot. Then one of the officers is shot from a connecting hall (but you cannot see the gun or the subject). Then you pie the corner to see the subject with a Glock to the head of a student who is down on his knees (you can see the chest and head of the shooter).

I shot this guy 3 times in the head coming from the low ready with the finger completely out of the trigger guard (they have a camera filming the "testee"). The first shot showed up as .5 seconds though I am not quite sure when the timer starts...I dont think it was when I first saw the guy.

Just for informational purposes I tried it again, keeping the gun in the "Sul" position that some folks these days mistake as a "ready" position (it is not, it is a "safety" position). This time the student being held hostage died before I could get the gun up and shoot though the time was about .75 seconds.

Just a point of reference. It probably does not mean much. No one can predict how these things will go.

Instructive non-the-less.

Riposte

PS; I noticed a lot of things I did wrong in these scenarios. That is what we train for. Learn how to improve.