HOW TO TEST YOUR DEFENSIVE TRAINING
If you study actual shootings, you’ll soon see a trend. It’s very common for someone—a cop or civilian—to point their handgun at the bad guy and start pulling the trigger.
It seems that this dumping of available ammunition is not a conditioned response; it’s a reflexive one. From a training standpoint, it’s easier to train to a reflexive response than it is to create a new, conditioned response. This is how the Forty-Five Drill came about. It’s an evaluation exercise that establishes your ability to do what you are, in fact, very likely to do if you’re
