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This website in its very composition of membership demonstrates what may appear to be a division between firearms enthusiasts interested in target shooting/self-defense/"shtf" skills as defined from those with hunting interests.
It is often thought by a hunter that "Those tactical guys have nothing to offer me." It is often thought by a self-defense trainer that, "Hunting just isn't at all like combat or a gunfight, and there is no applicable advice there."
Both contingents are losing by not recognizing what the other may have to offer.
It is my contention that each is contributory to the other. A well-trained combat fighter can readily and efficiently transfer those skills to the hunting field and find regular success. Conversely, a born and bred hunter can thrive in a combat situation and comfortably find his skillset learned while hunting to be entirely useful, especially toward Mission One: Staying Alive.
Listen to each other. (Or at least listen to some old fart that was ordered to carry an AR every day for four years, hunts mostly now with a Bow and Arrow, but paid money for a damn good Coyote rifle when politics got real stupid.)
It is often thought by a hunter that "Those tactical guys have nothing to offer me." It is often thought by a self-defense trainer that, "Hunting just isn't at all like combat or a gunfight, and there is no applicable advice there."
Both contingents are losing by not recognizing what the other may have to offer.
It is my contention that each is contributory to the other. A well-trained combat fighter can readily and efficiently transfer those skills to the hunting field and find regular success. Conversely, a born and bred hunter can thrive in a combat situation and comfortably find his skillset learned while hunting to be entirely useful, especially toward Mission One: Staying Alive.
Listen to each other. (Or at least listen to some old fart that was ordered to carry an AR every day for four years, hunts mostly now with a Bow and Arrow, but paid money for a damn good Coyote rifle when politics got real stupid.)