So when we’re talking about training with your fighting tools, this is a lifestyle.
By life style I’m not talking about the “gun life,” the “pew pew life,” or
anything like that. I’m saying the life of self-responsibility and self-reliance.
It’s that your life, you understand, is yours to protect.
I’m not saying, go take one class every summer and say “Yeah, I’m trained.”
Depending on how seriously you take your life and your family’s life, I take it pretty
seriously and I know Sang does, so I invest a lot of energy in it. I hope I go my entire
life and never need to fire a round in anger. But if I do, and it’s for my life or my
family’s, I hope to God I can fire swiftly and accurately and stop a threat.
When we talk about training we are not talking about every summer at your local range where
you shoot 500 rounds and feel good about yourself. We’re talking about this lifestyle, right?
Where you have a dry fire practice regiment. Where you are testing your gear.
Sang’s a freak about his gear. He finds the faults in it, and then he fixes it. And
then I give him mine and he fixes that too. Right? This is true.
You need to be training until the point where you don’t have to be thinking about it anymore.
Where, it, it just becomes natural to you. When it comes to reloads, malfunction clearings.
Don’t do things half assed. That’s true. Because when you do things
half-assed, you develop training scars. We’ve seen them. We’ve seen commonalities between
what everybody does. And when it’s time to shoot and their on a timer and there’s
people watching, they fallback to the things they’ve been doing over-and-over the wrong
way. If yourself not going to do it for yourself,
do it because, and train hard because you want to be able to protect your loved ones
if a situation were to arise. You’re going to be letting them down because you bought
a pistol and don’t know what you’re doing with it… but you have a pistol now and think
you know what you’re doing. How’s it going to be if something were to
arise and you end up shooting so horrible because you haven’t practiced, that you
shoot a six year old kid that was behind that person. So train. Train, train, train.
One thing I want to add to that train, train, train, is train correctly. You said train
hard, which I totally agree with, and I know you’ll agree with what I’m about to say…
We see a lot of people. They go to the range. They train what’s fun, and what’s easy.
And there’s… this is true across all aspects of life. Whether you’re a marathon runner,
a chief, a banker… if you’re going to be good at it… or even great at it. You
need to do the things that suck. The things that are not fun. The things that you suck
at. And that’s really where you improve. We all have things that we are good at. You
need to find those weak spots and work through them.
Personally, I’ve been working on accuracy for the last three months because I realized,
at some extended distances… my eyes, trigger press… at extended distances my accuracy
was not where I would like it to be. So I’ve been hammering that. Literally, this year,
8,400 rounds of group shooting, which is not fun what-so-ever, but that’s how you fix
problems. I know you, with some of your knife fighting
stuff, you’ve gone through some of those movements so many times… that it’s probably
very repetitious. But now like you said, their breed into your subconscious.
And that’s how you have to be. You have to get to the point where it becomes natural.
You have to find your weak points. You have to train to the point of failure to find out
what you’ll fail in. Once you figure that out, you can work on how you over-come that.
Which takes commitment, and literally, a desire to be the best… or the best that you can
be anyway. Some of us are not going to be world champion shooters. We’re not going
to be Navy Seals. But we can be the best that we can be with the physical limits, time and
resources that we can dedicate to it. Mickey Schuch with CarryTrainer.com. I appreciate
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