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http://preparedgunowners.com/2017/02/14/math-for-marksmen-the-speed-vs-accuracy-equation/
Here's the authors bio
John Mosby is the pseudonym of a former US Army special operations soldier, who blogs intermittently about preparedness security issues, and surviving the decline of empire through traditional human methods and sociology, at mountainguerrilla.wordpress.com. He lives with his family outside of a small village, somewhere in the mountains. He is the author of three books, The Reluctant Partisan, Vol 1: The Guerrilla, The Reluctant Partisan, Vol 2: The Underground, and Forging the Hero: A Tribal Strategy for Building Resilient Communities for Surviving the Decline of Empire. He is currently at work on his fourth book, A Home in Hyperborea: The Post-Modern Barbarian's Guide to Proven Methods for Survival Preparedness.
Here's what he said in the article.
The fact is, the single most important shot you will take in a fight, regardless of all other contextual considerations, is the first shot you fire. It doesn’t matter what gun you’re running. That shot needs to be accurate enough, and arrive soon enough, to rob the opposition of the initiative. So, developing speed and accuracy for that first shot is critical.
1.) If you smoke your first round into the dude’s grape…or, well, pretty much anywhere on his body, there is a significant chance that it is going to interfere with his actions long enough to buy you a margin of time. If your split-times between follow-up shots are slow, but you’ve “interrupted his OODA loop” (I’ve really grown to hate that term!!!) by putting a hole in him, guess what? You’re probably going to get a chance to shoot him again, even with a slow split-time.
Accuracy and precision are critical, but there is a lot of truth to the old adage that, “perfect is the enemy of good enough.”
Shooting sooner is about working the problem correctly, and only making legitimate shots, as soon as possible. That requires more than a fast target acquisition and a quick trigger finger though. It involves knowing and understanding what the parameters are that allow for a legitimate shot, in your circumstances, and only then, breaking a fast, accurate shot. Being able to recognize what is “precise enough,” and then being able to deliver it “fast enough,” will allow you to shoot sooner, after the decision-making process has allowed you positively identify your target as a legitimate target. The time metric simply forces you to accept “precise enough,” instead of pushing for “absolute precision.”
I agree with all the above, it's a time distance equation. If you don't have the time, you don't have the time to make precise shots. But putting lead in them first is the goal, even if the first is slightly errant. With good split times, their diminished state doesn't have time to recover when multiples are right behind that first shot at 3 or more per second.
I can, like many others, shoot a gnat's butt at 10 yrds [ not really but you get the point ]. So I have command of the basics. I can, like many others, have sufficient speed. Some might consider a few having exceptional speed, or at least more speed on tap through practice than the majority. If one reads the above, and has both command of the basics and thus command of the gun, coupled with well honed speed, ONLY then can one really command their own destiny to the fullest by being able to understand and use the time/distance equation to full advantage.
Here's the authors bio
John Mosby is the pseudonym of a former US Army special operations soldier, who blogs intermittently about preparedness security issues, and surviving the decline of empire through traditional human methods and sociology, at mountainguerrilla.wordpress.com. He lives with his family outside of a small village, somewhere in the mountains. He is the author of three books, The Reluctant Partisan, Vol 1: The Guerrilla, The Reluctant Partisan, Vol 2: The Underground, and Forging the Hero: A Tribal Strategy for Building Resilient Communities for Surviving the Decline of Empire. He is currently at work on his fourth book, A Home in Hyperborea: The Post-Modern Barbarian's Guide to Proven Methods for Survival Preparedness.
Here's what he said in the article.
The fact is, the single most important shot you will take in a fight, regardless of all other contextual considerations, is the first shot you fire. It doesn’t matter what gun you’re running. That shot needs to be accurate enough, and arrive soon enough, to rob the opposition of the initiative. So, developing speed and accuracy for that first shot is critical.
1.) If you smoke your first round into the dude’s grape…or, well, pretty much anywhere on his body, there is a significant chance that it is going to interfere with his actions long enough to buy you a margin of time. If your split-times between follow-up shots are slow, but you’ve “interrupted his OODA loop” (I’ve really grown to hate that term!!!) by putting a hole in him, guess what? You’re probably going to get a chance to shoot him again, even with a slow split-time.
Accuracy and precision are critical, but there is a lot of truth to the old adage that, “perfect is the enemy of good enough.”
Shooting sooner is about working the problem correctly, and only making legitimate shots, as soon as possible. That requires more than a fast target acquisition and a quick trigger finger though. It involves knowing and understanding what the parameters are that allow for a legitimate shot, in your circumstances, and only then, breaking a fast, accurate shot. Being able to recognize what is “precise enough,” and then being able to deliver it “fast enough,” will allow you to shoot sooner, after the decision-making process has allowed you positively identify your target as a legitimate target. The time metric simply forces you to accept “precise enough,” instead of pushing for “absolute precision.”
I agree with all the above, it's a time distance equation. If you don't have the time, you don't have the time to make precise shots. But putting lead in them first is the goal, even if the first is slightly errant. With good split times, their diminished state doesn't have time to recover when multiples are right behind that first shot at 3 or more per second.
I can, like many others, shoot a gnat's butt at 10 yrds [ not really but you get the point ]. So I have command of the basics. I can, like many others, have sufficient speed. Some might consider a few having exceptional speed, or at least more speed on tap through practice than the majority. If one reads the above, and has both command of the basics and thus command of the gun, coupled with well honed speed, ONLY then can one really command their own destiny to the fullest by being able to understand and use the time/distance equation to full advantage.
