Counting rounds just comes naturally.
I mean, after all you need to know.
I’m only speaking of target shooting and range shooting.
I mean, after all you need to know.
I’m only speaking of target shooting and range shooting.
Never underestimate the potential for experiencing 'bare fear' to overwhelm conscious or subconscious awareness and decision-making. The physiological effects of the hormonal fear response may be debilitating.
Granted, enough proper training (and the requisite recurrent practice of it) may help mitigate some of the effects of such stress, but it's unpredictable, at best.
Some folks find they can continue to access their ingrained training and make solid conscious decisions when the world is suddenly going to hell around them, and others may blank out and remember little or nothing of what happened, or their actions. It can get weird, too.
I didn’t realize that I had topped off my shotgun after my last shooting. I thought rounds fell out of my side saddle until they did the round count afterwards.
With Autos it was drilled into us "never shoot to lockback" so some sort of counting must be going on, and if there is a "break in contact, reload. Even if you only fired a couple of rounds.
Truth here, thanks.I think you just described a combat reload. You'll never convince me that in a really "busy" firefight any combatants count rounds. A break in the action simply requires a combat reload. It's not more complex than that.
That's for LEOs and military gunfights. Civilian gunfights not so much. If you're a civilian in a high, multi-round gunfight you are either in a house of worship, a large store or a shopping mall, or you are in the wrong place at the wrong time.![]()
Chuck Taylor said, "ability degrades fifty percent in combat," and I think he's right. It was part of my job to do the tactical debrief of officers in shootings after the detectives were done (800 man agency). It was extremely rare for an officer to have been able to count his rounds. While a very few did, there's just too much stress and too many other things going on and to consider for most of us mere mortals. In two of my own shootings I was able to count all the way up to two, but those incidents involved a shotgun, not a high-capacity pistol.
Auto Guys trained to reload before mag is empty-
Did you make an effort ro retain the dropped mag?