Oh, sure. Which combat style semi auto ? It has a scope, a nice trigger and weighs about 7 lbs. ?
Jeff Cooper took his Scout Rifle to the US Marine Rapid Reaction Course in So. Kalifornia and left with his fellow marines armed with M-16's in second place. Would that be a little different scenario than your force on force exercises ?
Again, you guys are assuming you need to supress the bad guys with lots of ammo. What ever happend to single hits ? I suspect that a .308 will stop quite well with just one hit.
BTW, Cooper's shooting school taught shooting quickly under stress and making single hits. Mind Set was an attitude he tried to instill.
Which is very useful. It means being situation aware or what I refer to as seeing it coming.
Last of all, I don't keep a combat rifle and a stack of extra magazines around waiting for a gunfight. But I do have several hunting rifles which I do shoot regularly. If I need to use a rifle for gun fighting, I suspect a rifle I know and shoot well is the way to go. E
Cooper's experience is Cooper's experience; my experience is my experience. I'm not speaking for Jeff Cooper, I'm speaking for Kevin Gibson. MY observations in force on force training with semi-auto weapons is that suppressive fire is used quite often to get the upper hand; even if that wasn't the intention of the rifleman in question. Look there's a reason every military organization in the world uses semi-auto rifles. I'm all for dropping one round where needed, but if you miss with that one round (a high liklihood if someone's shooting a high volume of fire your way), then while you're working your bolt, the other guy just cranked off 3 rounds, some or all could have found their mark. I don't care what Jeff Cooper or any other instructor says, I'll take a semi-auto against a manual action rifle every time if I know there's a fight coming.
