I don't know if this is what you are going for, I hope this helps, I'm looking at it from an LEO/HD situation, because when I was in the Marines, by golly you stood on your hind feet at 200 and shot one target at a time.
We taught our recruits to anchor your weapon on the threat, or threat area, generally muzzle slightly depressed, and scan with your eyes.
The rational being that if you are moving the weapon with your eyes looking through the sights, by the time you see the threat, signal your brain to stop the swing and press the trigger, you are past the threat.
Even if the shooters are just moving the muzzle to cover, if you watch, you will see many muzzles jerk back to center on the target when using the eyes and the gun move method.
When engaging multiples we taught to shoot the threat, look for the next threat, move the muzzle to the threat, focus, shoot - 'shoot, look, move, focus, shoot.....' Teaching police shotgun we taught 'shoot, cycle and look, move, focus, shoot....'
Moving the muzzle when scanning kind of violates those principles.
I believe that one of the reasons folks adopt the move the muzzle/sights with the eye mentality are competitive events using the plate rack or other multiple target deals with the targets set at known locations - you know where to, and how much to, move the muzzle for the next target.
In terms of the whole 'cover down, scan, and breathe' mantra. While it is good in concept it is generally poorly presented in training and quickly becomes meaningless range ballet. In our program we had to start with the premise that the majority of our shooters had little or no experience firing a firearm. We also had to do with time constraints due to the schedule. Not an ideal situation, but reality.
I always felt we wasted a lot of time introducing the cover down scan and breath aspect the first day or two. Some of our staff spent more time haranguing students to cover down than they did correcting marksmanship problems.
Plus, a thinking man quickly observed that the recruits weren't think about why they were doing what they were doing when you saw them focusing on scanning after admin loads or after clearing the weapon before going to the holster.
JMRO, I hope I understood your question.
Last edited by 26 Inf; 03-02-19 at 11:37.
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