So I watched this whole black and white documentary on training G.I.s for using the Colt 1911 in WW2. Here is a clip of it.
It really is quite good.
Modern gun guys will probably make fun of it, or say it’s bad in many respects, but the reality is most of those guys have no clue about training people in anything, much less firearm use where you get to have each guy get a chance to shoot a grand total of about two magazines’ worth of ammo, that is, less than 20 rounds each. When many of the guys never fired a handgun before.
The point shooting advice of keeping the gun in line with the locked arm and using the shoulder to point the whole arm at the target is an effective way of getting a brand new gun virgin to have some chance of actually hitting what he’s going for.
If you notice the tracer rounds used, most of the guys are really doing quite well shooting out to 50, 25 and 15 yards. In fact I would say most of them do better than your average guy you see at the range who is not a regular but rather an occasional shooter.
The full video is here and I have to say I even got into the VoiceOver and generic attitude of the video. It’s quite entertaining really.
