Over the last 40 years I’ve seen some odd stuff. Often, shooting positions for actual field use are “different” from the range positions we practice. These odd shooting positions fall in step with the concept of “What we think the fight will be, versus what the reality of the fight turns out to be.” Perceptions — training or otherwise — of what fights will be and the realities of what fights actually are, can change places when they are applied in the real world.

During the 1960s through the early 1980s, we shot the PPC Practical (it wasn’t) Pistol (we mostly shot revolvers) Course. It was presumed to be good because we shot, and all shooting is good? Then again it showed us not all range practices are good, and some training and shooting didn’t always work when applied on the street. With no disrespect intended, there are issues duly noted and recorded at places like Newhall, Calif., where officers had empty brass in their pockets and loaded with their heads down, allowing suspects to get close.

Salient points like the applied “roll over rifle prone” by the cops who took out the final suspect at North Hollywood, and the Miami FBI shooting “lost eye glasses, hit placement” issues have shown us how simple things can affect how the fight winds up in the end. I didn’t bring these up as good or bad, so much as they were simply the way things happened. Like all things in life, whether or not they are good or bad in the final analysis is based on whether we learn from them — or not.

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