But the game changes when you are shooting at a real man who most likely is shooting back at you or has some other weapon that can kill you and can move in three dimensions while you are trying to shoot him.
How do you practice that?
I admit, it's hard to practice that.
But you can train for it. I've been involved in multiple such training events. Force-on-force training with Airsoft or SIMUNITION does wonders for preparing people to shoot much, much better in subsequent deadly force situations. Combine that with computer simulator training and solid square-range handgun fundamentals, and you can produce some pretty good officer-involved shooting results. I know of a good number of agencies that have done exactly that with their cops' inservice training, and their hit ratios in real street shootings have dramatically improved.
Going from 20% hit ratios to 90%+ hit ratios is pretty convincing proof of the value of reality based training, in my view.
"I'm gonna have to science the schit out of this." Mark Watney, Sol 59, Mars
