Most handguns shooters spend countless hours trying to get the smallest possible group in the 10-ring on a target. Many of us are practically obsessed with accuracy, but accuracy and self-defense accuracy are quite different. In most self-defense situations, an attacker is anywhere from point-blank range out to about 30 feet away. If attacked in your home, you’ll never shoot at a longer distance than the length of your largest room. In that type of situation, you will not have time to line up your sights, take a deep breath, let half of it out and squeeze the trigger. In many ways, self-defense shooting is similar to shotgunning in that it is “flash shooting.” You lock your eyes on the target as you line up the gun and pull the trigger until you stop the attack. This type of shooting does not lend itself to pretty groups on paper, but that’s not the point. The point of self-defense shooting is protecting life and limb. All you have to be able to do is consistently hit a 1-foot square representing center-of-mass on a target at a variety of ranges out to about 30 feet. That is self-defense accuracy.
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