Intuitive Defensive Shooting

Human Factors of Intuitive Defensive Shooting

Most Defensive Shooting Courses Train Your Hands. This One Trains Your Nervous System.

Here is a fact almost no instructor will tell you:

In a real lethal force encounter, you will not perform your training. You will perform whatever your nervous system has been wired to do. There is no conscious override in that moment. There is no mental checklist. There is only what has been so deeply encoded into your motor programs that it runs automatically, the same way your foot finds the brake before your conscious mind has finished processing the red light.

The uncomfortable truth is that most range time builds habits, not automation. And those are not the same thing.

There is a second problem, one that begins the moment the shooting stops. In the United States, the legal standard for justified use of force does not care how frightened…