Jim McRae

Burton:

Have you ever considered doing a video about JKDU tactical firearms training?

Thanks,
Jim

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armlok

Nooooooooooo,
Not "Tactical"!!!!!

Firearms training is one thing, but please lets keep the word "tactical" for the miltary or specialized police arena. I have many knives, but only one is "Tactical." Meaning I used it in a military enviroment and uses like cutting S&P/commo wire, stabbing a medical dummy, looking cool w/ big knife, opening ammo crate, digging a cat hole to crap in and hunting pigs on field deployment.

Jim McRae

Sorry, Shelton. I forgot how much you hate that term. However, let me make a brief semantic apologia for poor old "tactical":

When I use the word "tactical," I mean "life or death fight." A "tactical" knife is one that you would use in a life or death knife fight (as opposed to skinning, cutting rope, etc.). "Tactical" firearms training deals with techniques and strategies that you would use to defend your life in a gunfight (as opposed to winning shooting competitions). This applies to civilians as much as it does to military personnel. Nowadays, when most people use the term "tactical," they use it in this sense.

Thanks,
Jims

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armlok

I'm just old and set in my ways I still prefer the term "defensive" for most applications, or "combative" if the object was offensive use of some weapon/skill. I shall demonstrate the differences in the "tactical" headbutt, "defensive" headbutt and the "combative" headbutt laer in class

platinum_angel

no i havnt

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Burton

Although I have faced guns in the street, I don't have any practial experience actually trying to take a loaded gun away. As for shooting skills, I defer to Colonel Rex Applegate's research. Hitting targets is different than getting accurate shots off at a target that is shooting at you!

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Mike Brewer

Semantics aside, "tactical" by definition means "of or having to do with tactics." When we military types refer to something as "tactical," we're generally talking about things that are made expressly for assisting us with the tactics of our specific operations at the end where "rubber meets road." Strategic is what the higher headquarters' planners and brass do. Operational is what the supply and commo and second tier folks do in order to enable us to function at the tactical level - the actual carrying out of the mission itself. Your tactical knife would be a great example. The utilitarian purposes you described (along with combat, if you were unlucky enough to break your weapon, inattentive enough to run out of ammo, or dumb enough not to have it with you) make it tactical. But in fairness, if one runs a course teaching people how to use firearms in defense of one's home, part of that course would no doubt involve tactics, would it not? Doesn't that make it "tactical" in nature? I understand where you're coming from, and I personally HATE the fact that everything from holsters to great big rubber bands is being billed as "Tactical" these days, but that's just marketing.