Every year, my company brings in a guy to run us through a FATS shooting program. Basically, for those who don't know about it, this is a computer projection on the wall that you shoot at with a specially equiped gun. They are real guns with lasers in the barrels. The laser's impact on the projected movie is pickep up by the computer and marked as a kill hit, marginal hit, or miss.
Well, last year we used 870's and I came in dead last. I was a little bothered by it because there were some serious discrepencies in how the game was played. People beat me that didn't know anything about shotguns, let alone how to shoot. It was interesting, to say the least.
This year, we used revolvers and autoloaders (a revolver that didn't match our standard-issue S&W 686's and a Glock). I was given the revolver just because that's the type of gun the man thought I would be most proficient at (no idea where he came up with that notion).
LSS, I scored perfect. 16-0. Bad part is the man that outshot me is a complete imbecile. I took him down to the range one day and witnessed some of the worst shooting it has ever been my misfortune to encounter. At the 25yd line, he was unable, literally, to put a hole in the target with fifty rounds fired. How is that possible? He was chewing up the dirt ten feet in front of the target!!!!!
Is this related to the Idiot Savants? Is it possible that he is horrible without the pressure of moving targets and time limits? I've heard of such things, but I can't imagine it being real.
To top it off, he's just a bad person.
How can the FATS system be made more fair? How can it, or the system of judging, more accurately judge the skill of the shooter? How can you be certain that one individual isn't being given a better chance than another?
I have serious questions regarding this training aid. Don't know if it's just how it is presented to us or if this is pandemic.
Thanks for the vent space.
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When reason fails...
Well, last year we used 870's and I came in dead last. I was a little bothered by it because there were some serious discrepencies in how the game was played. People beat me that didn't know anything about shotguns, let alone how to shoot. It was interesting, to say the least.
This year, we used revolvers and autoloaders (a revolver that didn't match our standard-issue S&W 686's and a Glock). I was given the revolver just because that's the type of gun the man thought I would be most proficient at (no idea where he came up with that notion).
LSS, I scored perfect. 16-0. Bad part is the man that outshot me is a complete imbecile. I took him down to the range one day and witnessed some of the worst shooting it has ever been my misfortune to encounter. At the 25yd line, he was unable, literally, to put a hole in the target with fifty rounds fired. How is that possible? He was chewing up the dirt ten feet in front of the target!!!!!
Is this related to the Idiot Savants? Is it possible that he is horrible without the pressure of moving targets and time limits? I've heard of such things, but I can't imagine it being real.
To top it off, he's just a bad person.
How can the FATS system be made more fair? How can it, or the system of judging, more accurately judge the skill of the shooter? How can you be certain that one individual isn't being given a better chance than another?
I have serious questions regarding this training aid. Don't know if it's just how it is presented to us or if this is pandemic.
Thanks for the vent space.
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When reason fails...