Originally Posted by
Iraqgunz
Because the belief is that under stress when fine motor skills "diminish" you may not hit the release thereby losing valuable time.
You do lose fine motor skills under stress that is a fact. Its an adrenaline response. Your body takes blood from your extremities and brings it to the core. You experience auditory exclusion and tunnel vision. Your dexterity also goes down hill. The good news is that training can lessen the effects of this as you become less stressed and get less adrenalin the more used to a situation you become. That is one of the reason seasoned combat vets do better than those that are not. They don't get stressed to the same level.
I had to shoot 2 bear last summer. One charged. On that one All I could see was the bear and my front sight. I remember my training kicking in. After wards I experienced an adrenaline dump. My hands where shaky and I felt exhausted. Stress does funny things to your body. I use the over hand grip on the slide method to reload. I find it works every time. I have tried to use the slide stop and I have found that I don't always hit it reliably. Partly due to my smaller hands. I have tried both the weapon thumb and more recently my support hand thumb. Perhaps its just hard to kick old training. But I know what works for me.
As for the mediocre shooters using fighting as an excuse. I have seen a lot of excellent shooters who have survived and won gun fights who disagree with you.
Pat
Last edited by Alaskapopo; 05-27-09 at 00:41.
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