Level Up Your Shooting Skills: Reactive vs Predictive Shooting

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In this video, Myles talks about the difference between predictive shooting and reactive shooting. He also demonstrates a simple way to establish your predictive shooting range.
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[@AZtwoNE]

I gotta say this.. All the compliments I get on the range ALWAYS end with the words “Myles fromTacticalHyve” Thank you for everything, Myles! I owe you every ounce of credit for making me the shooter I am today. Thank you so much man! Edit: Spelling. “Miles” to “MYLES” Sorry, Myles!!

[@MuffMarauder]

I just want to say I watch a lot of training videos online, and of course train in person and your channel is by far the best I would love to have the opportunity to train with you one day you were very clear and concise instructor. Thank you very much for the contact.

[@seanmorris4457]

Awesome words. I completely agree with this. Would absolutely love to train in person!

[@alancranford3398]

This was a very good presentation. I really liked the introduction--tell me what you're going to tell me. Next, the lesson--and then at the end review the lesson. During the Seventies I obtained a pair of WW2 books that taught me semiautomatic pistol burst-fire: the 1942 "Shooting to Live" and the 1943 "Kill or Get Killed." I corresponded with Rex Applegate, author of "Kill or Get Killed" in the early 1990's. Watching other people use double-taps or two-shot bursts was frustrating because it was BANG--long pause--BANG. In this video the two-shot burst was done correctly--BABANG up close and BANG-BANG beyond the "predictive shooing" distance. In "Shooting to Live" Fairbairn and Sykes began training raw recruits in live fire on a large target with a man-sized photo in the center--and at 2 yards distance. They began with dry fire, then single shots, then progressed to two-shot, three-shot and six-shot bursts using target focused aiming techniques with the pistol held at eye level. Back then it was one-hand shooting unless there was time for using both hands, and if there was time for both hands, the Shanghai Municipal Police would use conventional front-sight focus shooting and would also use whatever artificial support they could to include a prone firing position. During the War, pistol training might only be a couple of hours with a dozen shots--but then their techniques were intended for around ten feet. Rex Applegate wrote that good results were achieved at up to twenty feet and that experienced shooters could use his target-focused shoulder point instinctive shooting as far out as fifty feet. The goal of these wartime courses was to produce an acceptable combat pistol shot in a limited amount of training time without expending hundreds of pistol cartridges. Often, the trainees would do most of their shooting with the .22 pistol if they had time for the full course and then they'd familiarize with their issue weapon--a .32 or a .38 or 9mm or .380 or .45, whatever was available to the Office of Strategic Services for the mission. My formal pistol training is limited--familiarization fire at MCRD San Diego, qualifying Sharpshooter with the M1911A1 at Fort Riley, KS during 1985, running through security guard course to FM 23-35 standards in Kuwait with the M9 pistol in 1994 and shooting possibles until I left the contract in 1999, taking another security guard course with the .38 revolver and shooting Expert in Nevada during 2003, and a concealed carry course in Nevada during 2005 that required firing revolver and semiautomatic pistol. For my next trick, I'm working on NRA instructor certification for basic pistol--safety and marksmanship and not a whole lot more. This video was a deep dive into speed with accuracy and I appreciate the detail on sight picture and trigger control. The wartime training I referenced didn't produce the same degree of skill, but then if only a few dozen rounds were available for training and the pistol had only the small, dark sights of the WW2 period, the shooter trained in those techniques would be deadly effective even in the dark at distances of two to five yards and dangerous at double those distances. The technique and equipment shown in the video appears to be effective in excess of twenty-five yards under daylight range conditions and probably half that distance when the target can be identified under low light conditions.

[@markhatfield5621]

The late Jeff Cooper named that technique the 'Hammer' as opposed to the "Double Tap' which is as fast as you can while still having separate sight pictures.

[@fanman8102]

Really glad you’re discussing and teaching this technique. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. A shooter should be able to hit a target at three yards with their eyes closed. If not something’s wrong with their grip and/or stance. Good stuff!

[@den_see]

Excellent video! I watch a lot of yours along with Ben Stoegers. Thank you!

[@diametricallyopposed360]

Thanks again Miles!

[@boereburger6762]

Great video as ALWAYS!

[@BirdDogey1]

I’ve been in street combat. It ain’t a day at the range. It evolves quickly and violently. Your red dot is along for the ride.

[@ericscott6427]

Very good topic

[@UrbanDefenseSystems]

In the beginning you mention that you only see one sight picture, but whenever I hear the pros talk about predictive shooting, they say they still see other sight pictures for the quick follow up shots.

[@giorgiocasini843]

You're a pretty good teacher!!! Greetings from Tuscany

[@leskobrandon4666]

Very nice content!

[@Doug557]

Excellent overall tutorial. Thank you

[@billdittman680]

Great training exercises! Your videos are so informative and so helpful in my daily practice can’t get enough keep them coming!

[@roflchopter11]

Im just surprised you didn't get kicked out of the range for admitting you didn't have a sight picture. Even though you hit the target.

[@joebob617]

Helps if you talk to the RSO before you do it. And we don’t know what range this was and if Miles was a known quantity 😉

[@mikereese15]

Good stuff Myles

[@Sig_Steve]

Great advice as always.

[@fonix127]

I have heard it described as monitoring your sights but not reacting to them. I don't know how I feel about describing it as not seeing your sights for 2nd, 3rd, etc shot. I think even while predictive shooting you should be able to see your sights and be able to call your shots

[@TacticalHyve]

We should have gone deeper in the video. Shooters should still gather data from their sights, but when they break the second shot, they are doing so as fast as they can pull the trigger, which for some means they won't have any kind of acceptable sight picture, such as when reactive shooting.

[@davidgaines8607]

Nobody is telling you wether to disregard your sights in some defensive engagement. This is simply a measurement for where you're at. Or a tool you could use . Furthermore with certain guns I can get pretty fast split times if that's what I'm going for , faster than I can track the sights . Now am I just supposed to never ever shoot a gun that fast ? If I can keep a relatively small group in an "A" " zone while shooting turbo speed , at a distance that is relative , all while blindfolded .... I don't understand why this is a bad thing. I'm not sure exactly what the problem is.

[@marckuskane]

You guys are awesome!!!

[@stephenbatchelor3101]

Could you explain and detail everything on your rig?

[@kevinherndon6963]

Awesome content

[@2ATranA]

Thank you for providing so much educational content 🤓 You are truly one of the best teachers! ❤️

[@OnielMendezIrizarry]

great content

[@whiskeythree1622]

Next level training, Myles -- outstanding 🤙🏼

[@pyeitme508]

Wow😊

[@dtna]

AKA "hammer"...

[@familyengineering5591]

Myles what gun are u running?

[@TacticalHyve]

CZ Shadow 2

[@familyengineering5591]

I thought it was cz from the slide. How are you with your carry gun? I dont like the shadow 2 safety. Wish it was a decocker like my p01

[@ericthomas9915]

🥓

[@tekaefixe]

I’m sorry but that’s not predictive shooting. Ask Ben Stoeger or Hwansik Kim about it. Vision is essential not the grip.

[@thaugli3]

He (in the video) usually just regurgitates stuff without understanding it.

[@TacticalHyve]

Vision is always part of shooting. That should be common sense. The difference here is you don't wait to see the dot or front sight on subsequent shots.

[@tekaefixe]

@@TacticalHyve sorry but you never loose track of the dot, the thing is, is not a dot anymore, it a line or even just color. No shooter shoots blindly unless he’s a idiot. Don’t confuse predictive shooting with instinctive shooting.

[@TacticalHyve]

Disagree. By definition, predictive is predicting where the shot will go/how sights will behave. It is an exercise and not necessarily how one should shoot. As discussed in the video, the only time one might do this is with an easy and/or big target. If one has a front sight reference or sees the a streak of the red dot, they have a visual reference and react to that stimulus, making it reactive shooting.

[@familyengineering5591]

What gun is myles running? Also great vid. Explained very simply.

[@TATE-d6z]

Isn’t this just a double tap just dif terminology brother