Okay, my first reaction was, “Wow, that’s gonna be unsafe as hell.”(Emphasis added)
At 1:24 minutes into the vid, I was a bit mesmerized, though. Nice shooting, Mr. Harrington.
This is not a training method I would advocate, but it shows an excellent degree of skill.
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"Unsafe as Hell?"
Obviously THIS shooter doesn't think so ... and his sterling performance of "Shooting On The Move" certainly demonstrates that it can be done safely.
He hit what he shot at, every time. He took the steel targets in order so that we could SEE what his next target was,
I didn't see anything that looked REMOTELY "unsafe" in this demonstration .. did you?
In point of fact, IPSC/USPSA competitors have been doing this kind of shooting techniques for decades, with nary a blurp. Okay, we're not all up to this level of competence at the start of our competitive careers .... but on the other hand we sometimes engage targets on the move, it occurs over 'broken ground' at variable speeds and the target arrays appear laterally ... that is, from one side to the next, not a relationship of 'I'm always here and you're always there-to-there.
Not to denigrate Mister Harrington's performance but, when you're actually moving side-to-side, the geometry is often even MORE challenging!
So ... is shooting on the move "UNSAFE AS HELL"?
Only in the sense that Competition Shooting is 'dangerous' ... which is not the same thing as "UNSAFE".
Again, compare IPSC vs High School Sports for relative degrees of safety. IF you don't know what you're talking about, it's senseless to arbitrarily label common practices of competition shooting as "UNSAFE AS HELL".
We'll give this judgement the appropriate amount of respect:
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Look for a shooting from a treadmill stage at one or all of next years nationals.
What to do with that old treadmill gathering dust in your garage.
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