HA3 14.1 - Re-Training
A week had passed since Hide talked with Takeo and Shizuka about their next targets. Today, they finally resumed their firearm training.
“Huehehehehe…” Shizuka had big smile in her face as she checked her VP9. “Finally, I can touch my baby again.”
After looking at Shizuka for a moment Hide said, “Let’s start with you.”
“Okay.”
“Prepare two fully loaded magazines and run your gun with silencer. I will give you human-size targets at 8 meters. Try to hit the first three using conventional stance, and then hit the second three using contra-terrorist stance and aim without sight.”
“Double in the head, right?” Shizuka asked while preparing two magazines and swiftly loaded it.
“Yup.”
A few minutes later, Shizuka carried out the drill and the result was rather disappointing. She could hit her first three targets using conventional stance even though it cost her one fully loaded magazine, but she failed to hit the second three targets using counter terrorist stance. She didn’t even graze the second three targets.
“Your turn,” Hide said to Takeo as Shizuka dejectedly returned to back area.
Wasting no time, Takeo carried out the drill and the result was pretty similar like Shizuka. He could hit his first three targets using conventional stance, but he failed to hit the second three targets even after using every single round he had.
Hide then asked Takeo and Shizuka to gather before him. “Do you realize something?”
“Our accuracy with contra-terrorist stance is gone without a trace,” Takeo dejectedly said.
“Correct, and that’s the weakness of instinctive shooting or aiming without sight. In our training cycle which is about 3-4 times a week, one day off means a whole week to get your instinctive shooting back. Two days off will take one whole month worth of re-training, and three days off will force you to train your instinctive shooting from scratch.” After a short pause Hide continued, “This is the very reason why only a select few chose instinctive shooting.”
“Hide…” Shizuka couldn’t help but giving Hide a frustrated gaze. “Why do you ask us to train using a shooting method that has a very big drawback?”
“Because other than nasty drawback, it also possesses a nasty advantage,” Hide casually said. “Give me three targets at 8-10 meters and I will show it to you.”
Hide then turned around and face the back area while holding a silenced VP9 in his chest. At the same time, Takeo arranged three holographic targets for him.
“Shooter, are you ready?” Takeo asked.
“I’m ready.”
“Go!”
Beeb!
As soon as the timer started, Hide turned around facing the target and pushed VP9 in his hand forward. Then, he took aim without sight and squeezed the trigger.
Phut-phut!
Phut-phut!
Phut-phut!
Three double tabs hit three different center mass in quick succession. Then, Hide turned around facing the back area one more time.
“Give me the second three,” Hide said.
“Roger.” Wasting no time, Takeo arranged the second three targets and signaled Hide. “Shooter, are you ready?”
“I’m ready.”
“Go!”
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Beeb!
Once again, as soon as the timer started, Hide turned around to face the target and pushed VP9 in his hand forward. Then, he took aim without sight and squeezed the trigger.
Phut-phut!
Phut-phut!
Phut-phut!
This time, three double tabs hit three different head in quick succession. Then, Hide cleared his VP9 before putting it in the holster.
“Check the result and compare my first three and my last three,” Hide calmly said to Takeo.
“Roger.”
Wasting no time Takeo using the tablet connected to the range’s control panel to check and compare Hide’s shooting drill. A moment later, he turned his gaze to Takeo.
“Three double in the center mass and three double in the head, approximately, at the same speed.”
‘Pheeew… my hard work to re-train myself for the whole week bear a good fruit,’ Hide took a deep breath full of relief before saying, “That’s the nasty advantage of instinctive shooting. Once you master it to certain level, you will have same speed and same accuracy no matter what spot you want to nail.”
“Put it simply, shoot your target at their arm to disarm them, shoot their head to kill them,” Shizuka said. “And you will have same speed and same accuracy no matter what choice you take.”
“Yeah,” Hide firmly replied.
“How fast is the instinctive shooter you know?” Takeo curiously asked.
“By using a silenced handgun and at 6-10 meters distance, he cans headshot the third man even before the first man has the time to bleed from the new hole in his face,” Hide casually replied. “Instinctive shooter is a death god in close quarter gunfight.”
“So, someone who can shoot that fast exist,” Shizuka said.
“Yeah, he has excellent kinetic vision and motoric vision, while his hand can move faster than any eye can follow." After a short pause Hide pointed his finger at Shizuka’s nose. “The good news is, you also have excellent kinetic and motoric vision, and can move your hand faster than any eye can follow.”
“Me?” Shizuka asked in disbelief while pointing at her own nose.
“Yeah, you,” Hide firmly replied.
“I knew I can move my hand very fast and my eyes have excellent sight, but I don’t know if I can head shot third man before the first man has the time to bleed from new holes in his face,” Shizuka hesitantly said.
“If you don’t skip your training, in 4-5 months you will be able to,” Hide calmly said. “That’s when we carry Knosses job.”
“Are you sure about that?” Shizuka asked as she gave Hide a hesitance look. “Don’t you forget, when we started the firearm training, my pace to increase my accuracy was slower than you two?”
“At that time, you had hard time increasing your accuracy because your hands and eyes were too fast. That’s why it was very hard to synchronize them,” Hide calmly explained. “But now, when you are re-training yourself, you won’t have that problem anymore. You have built up some experience and both your body and mind already know what you want to achieve.”
“I see.”
“Wait a second,” Takeo said as he gave Hide a drop dead serious gaze. “I know Shizuka has a very fast hand. She always uses it to prank on me since we were in the kindergarten. But, how do you know she has excellent kinetic and motoric vision?”
“She has certain habitual training in her karate that sharpens her motoric vision and kinetic vision to the extreme,” Hide casually said while looking at Shizuka straight in the eyes. “Right?”
“Yeah,” Shizuka openly replied. “It’s a training to face armed opponent to be precise.”
After lightly nodding his head Hide said, “Well, let’s test it then.”
Wasting no time, Hide took a golf ball from his bag and wrote ‘3x2?’ on it. Then, he turned his gaze to Shizuka.
“I wrote a simple math problem in this ball. Try to answer it before you catch it.”
Without warning, Hide then threw the ball straight to Shizuka’s face.
Whooozzz!
“Six.”
Catch!
With ease, Shizuka gave Hide the correct answer before catching the golf ball using her left hand.
“Show the math problem to Takeo,” Hide casually said.
Shizuka immediately showed the math problem in the golf ball to Takeo, and his eyes instantly widened.
“You are not human,” Takeo said in low voice before turning his gaze to Hide. “Please tell me honestly, do I have the knack to become instinctive shooter or not?”
“I can’t tell for sure,” Hide honestly replied. “But, if you train both your instinctive shooting and conventional shooting, you will be faster than regular shooter. Second, you have a very good knack to become a precision shooter.”
“I see.”
A thin smile instantly bloomed in Takeo’s lips after he heard he had a knack to become a precision shooter.
“Well then, let me give summary of what we have just gone through,” Hide calmly said. “In conventional shooting, you put a brake on your instinct to finish the fight as soon as possible. The goal is, to instill caution in your way of fighting as a member of unit. It’s to prevent friendly fire, chaos or panic under intense combat stress and fatigue, and such.
While on instinctive shooting, you throw away the brake, and do your best to accommodate your instinct to finish the fight as soon as possible.”
““…””
“Now, how will we train ourselves on both instinctive shooting and conventional shooting effectively? It’s pretty simple. We will randomly throw hostage situation or mingled-civilian in our shooting drill, and you have to adjust your stance accordingly.”
““…””
“Starting the next firearm training, we will also spend 2-3 hundred rounds per person and will starting learning the room clearing. The formation will be, I and Shizuka will take turn as point man and striker, while Takeo will become rear guard or precision shooter.”
“Got it?”
““Got it.””
“Okay,” Hide happily said. “For today firearm training, let’s just try to hit the target as much as we can, using both contra-terrorist stance and conventional stance. Then, we switch to the gym.”
““Roger.””
Without delay, the three started the firearm training.
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