BIGGEST MISTAKE 95% of new gun owners make & how to fix it

[@CivilianWarrior]

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[@philipellis1865]

Well thank you!!!! I just turned 77 6 days ago and I ben shooting science I was 3yrs. old. And you said it all in little over 2mins. Just like my dad tough me 👍👍👍

[@CivilianWarrior]

Well happy belated birthday and thank you for watching and commenting, much appreciated!

[@eastlakeaccounting7711]

Git Good!! I was not expecting this being called out as biggest mistake. Great informative point! 💯

[@CivilianWarrior]

Thanks brother, hope you are doing well!

[@alancranford3398]

New shooter here--been shooting sixty years, have had a concealed carry permit for twenty years, competed in about a half dozen matches, retired soldier, retired anti-terrorist security officer, experienced military armorer and small arms instructor--we are all beginners! Match competition provides some shooter stress, but don't buy a new gun, fail to so much as read the manual, and take it and a box of bullets to the gun range to compete against other shooters. If you don't get tossed off the range for safety violations, you still will have problems competing. One time on a security contract in the Middle East I was given the opportunity to demonstrate 100-meter pistol accuracy with the M9 pistol and M882 ball ammo--during a low-grade sandstorm. In that "put up or shut up" event I was able to hit the silhouette 80% of the time at 100 meters (rollover prone) and then I used that training moment to instruct the contract's training manager in pistol shooting. He needed more confidence--he rated "expert" on our pistol course (to 35 meters) and scored 100% hits at 50 meters, but only 15% at 100 meters. An arrogant degree of confidence sufficient to focus on sight picture and trigger squeeze was the key to long range marksmanship--the group center drop was something like a half-foot at 100 meters, a foot and a half at 150 meters and four feet at 200 meters--but I didn't have the resources to fire past 100 meters. Note that my drop figures were approximations. My excuse is that I wouldn't always have an agency-issue M16A2 rifle that I had zeroed myself and I might really need to shoot back beyond the 35-meter qualification distance. I was the contract's armorer and I knew that all 185 pistols were good to go, even though they slightly differed from each other. Overconfidence is a problem, but under fire that overconfidence vanishes in a cloud of self-doubt. Training is synthetic experience. To be effective training that synthetic experience, that structured playtime, has to come close to real world so that when the real world gets ugly, it won't shake confidence. Reports from the sandbox indicated that American military training was close enough to real-world that "it was like training with live ammo." I didn't get shot at while in the Middle East (yes, I was lucky) any of the three times I worked there--the last as a deployed Army National Guard soldier. Confidence comes from surviving experience--and learning from it. When the experience is too intense and outside previous training (synthetic experience) the mindset goes from "I can handle this" to "MAMA! HELP ME MAMA!"

[@CivilianWarrior]

Well said, thank you for taking the time to comment and for your service

[@LUVDOGS1954]

The "lean-back" hahahahahaha!. I see it all the time. Then they admire their work on each shot. Honey, this isn't an art museum! This vid was right on the money, thanks.

[@CivilianWarrior]

That was hilarious, thanks for watching and the comment, hope this video wakes up some people and has the intended effect.

[@manganvbg90]

6” group from like 5 ft? 😁 in Sweden to qualify for a handgun license we need to get like 4” on 25 yard…..although with a 22. No one does the qualification with anything bigger

[@av0wvos]

If I were to have a one sentence take away from this video, what would you want it to be?

[@mitanshusaini528]

Please make a video on how to make a training plan

[@CivilianWarrior]

Will do! I want to post a few more basic instructional videos to help beginners get better and eventually upload a longer one showing basic drills I do continuously do at the range. Next video should be up no later than next sat 2/11.