Quantity vs Quality, you decide.

[cmshoot]

I took away from the article that volume of rounds fired, in itself, doesn't a good shooter make. Doing the basics over and over to get the muscle memory, dealing with malfunctions, the reload, the draw, sight alignment and trigger control, should all be consistently and persistently done. As mentioned, the veteran LEO's were tired of the basics and wanted more. A human tendency to want to mature in what we do. Just a good article, I thought. Reminded me of the "only perfect practice makes perfect" thing.

Good stuff

 

[Granite3]

Somebody has a chart of rounds fired by everyone in the Civil War through the Afghan war.

As far as I recall, rounds fired was a rocket ship up, number of hits stayed fairly constant.

Shift in tactics - Closed ranks to open ranks, supressive vs aimed fire, and hiher cyclic rates cover a lot of the difference- read down to second and third entry.

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