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Oct
09

Trainging Simulators - Are they Good?

How do you get good at defending yourself with a gun? The same way you get good at anything else — lots of practice.

However, there are a few obvious practical problems with practicing defense with a gun. First off, it gets expensive to shoot live ammo on a regular basis at the range. Secondly, you can’t effectively practice 360-degree target finding, ducking, hiding, and shooting from different positions at a linear range. Finally, you can’t actually go around shooting people or fully understand what it is like to have someone shooting at you.

So, how do you practice?

Technology has blessed us with gun training simulators that effectively put us in different scenarios and allow us to train “under pressure.” In the past, these simulators have been prohibitively expensive for all but law enforcement agencies with big budgets or wealthy aficionados.

Until now…

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