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Dmr/ precision ar type trigger

Bakwa
JR1200W3 said:
In terms of your story about almost shooting a guy. What was in his hands? A gun? A trigger? Nothing?

Was he a threat? Or was he not a threat?

Every ROE I've ever had always starts with "The right to defend yourself, teammates, and US Government property". And that's not inconsequential. It's the basis for target discrimination and shooting in those environments. We're not playing Kim's games with people's faces. Is the person you're encountering as you clear your critical coner, collapsing your sector, moving to and through your point of domination or supporting your #1/2 man a threat to you or not? You determine that 9 times out of 10 by looking at the hands. You can see a person's eyes, body movements, and how they're bringing their hands into action what their intent is. It's really hard to kill someone with nothing in your hands.
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This particular instance: It was night. I was under "higher spec" PVS-14's. He was running at me from the other side of a barrier as I came up on it. He had a radio in his hand, and some random bag slung cross body. It all happened pretty fast, but my mindset went from, "get a solid first shot before hammering more in rapid succession" to "I don't think this guy is a threat" to "this might be our guy". My change of mindset happened as I was picking up details, which all took place in maybe a second.


Sorry OP.
I didn't mean to hijack your thread.
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Dmr/ precision ar type trigger

Bakwa
JR1200W3 said:
This is exactly why I dislike "the like" of two stage triggers. People think the first stage buys them "decision space". Whether they think that's prepping fundamentals for a shot in a match or something like the above. The wall is the wall. You break the shot when you want to. Whatever work you need to do before breaking the wall, you do it either way.
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You're the first person that I've seen react this way to the concept of 2-stage triggers being used in such a way. I typically respect your opinions. I'm probably going to try to take some time and train behind a few single stage triggers with your mindset and see what I realize on the other side. Thanks for the insight.
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Dmr/ precision ar type trigger

Bakwa
JR1200W3 said:
You don't pull the trigger on something or someone you don't understand to be a threat hoping 1.25lbs of first stage leaves you some time to complete a thought and make the decision for good.
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I agree. Traditionally speaking, QCB would be an environment you would likely seldom if ever need that second stage. I understand and agree with PRA.
My thought is that having a place to stage in your trigger pull while your sights are on the target can only be an advantage in obscure circumstances like the one I illustrated. I use it during hunting too. I'll stage and make my final determination to pull the trigger from the second stage.
All said, you likely have more training and experience than I do. I only played around with cool guys for a short while, then got out.
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