{"id":13183,"date":"2016-04-06T16:16:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T16:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/?p=13183"},"modified":"2016-04-06T16:16:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T16:16:23","slug":"proof-of-the-lasers-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/proof-of-the-lasers-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof of the Laser’s Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"M-4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2012 while\u00a0researching and working on my book, Handgun Training for Personal Protection<\/a>, I worked with a local shooting club to put together a defensive handgun match. The stages for the match are those detailed in my book. But, I went a step further and for the Forty-Five Drill stage each competitor was required to shoot the drill with their own gun and with a handgun equipped with a Crimson Trace<\/a> Laser Grip.<\/p>\n

In the Forty-Five Drill the shooter is required to draw from concealment, put five rounds, into a five-inch circle, at a distance of five yards, within five seconds. Shooters were penalized 5 seconds for hits on the IPSC target outside of the five-inch circle and 10 seconds for a complete misses. So, the stage was scored by adding the penalties to the time.<\/p>\n

\"M-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The best score recorded with a shooter’s own handgun was 4.30<\/strong>. (By the way, this pistol was a Browning HiPower.) The best score\u00a0recorded with the Crimson Trace<\/a> Laser Grip equipped handgun was 2.99<\/strong> seconds. The average score for all shooters with their own handgun was 14.82<\/strong>. And – this is the important part<\/em><\/strong> – the average score for shooters shooting a handgun other than their own, with a Crimson Trace<\/a> Laser Grip, was 13.04<\/strong> seconds. (This pistol was a S&W M&P in .40S&W.)<\/p>\n

To put it plainly, shooters – on average – shot\u00a012%<\/strong> better with a Crimson Trace<\/a> Laser Grip equipped handgun they had never before fired<\/strong><\/em>, than they did with their own handgun. To me this is definitive proof that a defensive handgun equipped with a Crimson Trace<\/a> Laser Grip is, on average and for most folks, a better option.<\/p>\n

\"M-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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