I shoot IDPA, where we have some really close range targets in courses that are blazing fast. Like 6 targets, 3 rounds min each with min 1 mag reload completing under 16 seconds (for me, though that isn’t super fast).
In those close ranges I basically stop aiming with sights and point shoot. Entirely focus my eyes where I want to hit and my body just does the rest, cave man mode activated and just go go go.
From that I can believe he might not have been like “remember your arm-shooting training,” but the kid showed he processed information well, and his eyes clearly tracked the arm draw.
He assessed non-threat (hands were up for false surrender) and didn’t shoot.
When he saw weapon draw he assessed threat and shot.
If bullets go where your eyes are, it’s very believable, particularly at near point blank range.
I just went to find a replay to do frame by frame.
One-arm did his fake surrender to get close, and Kyle lowered his weapon.
Gage walked closer and was essentially on a trajectory where his body would sweep the barrel out of the way.
So while bladed and forcing Kyle’s barrel right to left, he brought his arm back around and basically right in line with the barrel.
Would have been harder to shoot center mass. He possibly just shot, but I still say his no-threat to threat transition was spot on, and to further the “trained” hypothesis, watch him after he shot Gage.
His head immediately goes back on a swivel to start assessing all the other people swarming around him.
A lot of carbine courses drill that in. You have your one target in front of you, and you train to engage and once done engaging go through the seemingly ridiculous “check right, check left” sweep anyways just to make this automatic.
Had there been another threat but Kyle focused solely on the man screaming “Medic” he could have been killed by tunnel vision.
All you have to do is look at all the pics of him with the gun. He is completely disciplined with it. Finger off the trigger, pointing it down or in the air. It's easy to see he was well trained in handling the weapon.
No knock on Kyle at all, but if he was good enough to pick his shots on the fly he wouldn't have missed his shots on the dude that kicked him in the head just prior to Tony Hawk's arrival.
I am glad that I am not the only one who got that. Kyle would have been killed or seriously injured. Kyle has the skills and knowledge of an experienced rifleman.
Yeah, total proof.
But you know something, when one-arm drew his glock, if Kyle had shot him in the chest he might have still been able to shoot Kyle.
Which makes me believe he shot the arm on purpose to disable.
Which makes me further roll my eyes at the comments suggesting he didn’t know how to handle the weapon well, because he looked plenty well trained.
Luck favors the prepared
Maybe we'll never know, maybe Kek guided his muzzle that night
Shit ain't coincidental. God watched over him and sent Guardian Angel Haiyel, his Angel of Weaponry.
I shoot IDPA, where we have some really close range targets in courses that are blazing fast. Like 6 targets, 3 rounds min each with min 1 mag reload completing under 16 seconds (for me, though that isn’t super fast).
In those close ranges I basically stop aiming with sights and point shoot. Entirely focus my eyes where I want to hit and my body just does the rest, cave man mode activated and just go go go.
From that I can believe he might not have been like “remember your arm-shooting training,” but the kid showed he processed information well, and his eyes clearly tracked the arm draw.
He assessed non-threat (hands were up for false surrender) and didn’t shoot.
When he saw weapon draw he assessed threat and shot.
If bullets go where your eyes are, it’s very believable, particularly at near point blank range.
I just went to find a replay to do frame by frame.
One-arm did his fake surrender to get close, and Kyle lowered his weapon.
Gage walked closer and was essentially on a trajectory where his body would sweep the barrel out of the way.
So while bladed and forcing Kyle’s barrel right to left, he brought his arm back around and basically right in line with the barrel.
Would have been harder to shoot center mass. He possibly just shot, but I still say his no-threat to threat transition was spot on, and to further the “trained” hypothesis, watch him after he shot Gage.
His head immediately goes back on a swivel to start assessing all the other people swarming around him.
A lot of carbine courses drill that in. You have your one target in front of you, and you train to engage and once done engaging go through the seemingly ridiculous “check right, check left” sweep anyways just to make this automatic.
Had there been another threat but Kyle focused solely on the man screaming “Medic” he could have been killed by tunnel vision.
You can see him switch his point of aim in the video. I'm guessing it was instinct and training.
0% chance he aimed for the arm on purpose tbh
All you have to do is look at all the pics of him with the gun. He is completely disciplined with it. Finger off the trigger, pointing it down or in the air. It's easy to see he was well trained in handling the weapon.
No knock on Kyle at all, but if he was good enough to pick his shots on the fly he wouldn't have missed his shots on the dude that kicked him in the head just prior to Tony Hawk's arrival.
I am glad that I am not the only one who got that. Kyle would have been killed or seriously injured. Kyle has the skills and knowledge of an experienced rifleman.