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- Oct 15, 2021
You're not even wrong but I'd like to see you guys incorporate real world scenarios like an ambush or IMT's into your training regime. There is also a lack of small unit tactics on display, I know you guys have done various courses but this type of stuff isn't real you can learn in a week or whatever.
I know that you're hamstrung by safety concerns, the practicalities of running a competition and the law but if your goal is soldiering then you're off the mark. It's funny but being a soldier is as much about shitting in a MRE bag next to your mate as it is about shooting people.
At the end of the day we're all just talking shit.
Matches can’t test tactics or teach them. They’re gun handling and marksmanship tests with varying levels of difficulty added: be that physical, mental, and/or environmental.
Competition is a good place to develop gun handling and marksmanship skills under various kinds of stress. It is not equivalent to combat. It is nonetheless still a level of stress where things go wrong and people make mistakes and can learn from them.
Team stuff is unfortunately almost impossible to do in a way that doesn’t completely defeat the purpose or is too dangerous for the people without specific training showing up.
How to say you've never been shot at without saying you've never been shot at.
I haven’t been. People I know who have still believe competition is valuable. SF units bring top tier competitors in to teach them gun handling and marksmanship. Agency instructors are also often competitors.
These are the people I interact with at matches weekly and even more so at national level events.




