Reality-testing / Playtesting the Guns Default . . .

[vicky_molokh]

Had a looong break before returning to the range. (The new police are apparently booking all the openings in bulk because they want more training.)
But I'm back. Alas, I couldn't get solid numbers combined with clear hit data on most of the stuff I tried (because much of the evening was dominated by dry runs and by exercises that are were more about doing things the right way than about measuring results).
Of the things I do remember:
1. Head-sized targets at 15ish yards (maybe it was 20 this time? Not sure) seemed to have a 50%-80% hit rate with a pistol under semi-hurried conditions.

2. A timed series of attacks against six targets at 7-10 metres (yards), hitting each in a Vitals-sized area (i.e. all shots were aimed at the centre of the torso, falling within an area roughly equivalent to one lung as depicted on B399). Starting out with a holstered weapon, starting the action by an audial signal, performing a Ready to draw it out of a holster (the holster was not intended for soft belts, so it slightly snagged when I pulled it out) it and another to send the cartridge into the breech, first shot performed at slightly over 3 seconds, last shot completed after slightly over 13½ seconds.
That seems to imply at most a single Aim action before the first shot (maybe none, depending on how bad the drawing was), and a total of 10 seconds for the remaining shots (so at most 1 second of Aim for each, assuming an even split, and that changing targets did not have a further detrimental effect for a person without proper training).

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I suppose that for any subsequent exercises I will no longer be able to claim non-familiarity, making the experiment not as interesting. Anyone willing to analyze the numbers?