I'd hope Vickers would tell his students to go to more than one school, many very experienced senior instructors out there, many different POV.
Vickers is the standard, a ton of schools build their entire curriculum off of his stuff.
But you don't know your gear inside and out. If you don't practice the scenario you so worry about you are not prepared. (it is like the drunk searching for his keys where the light is good and not where he lost them) Many train when the weather is good, the routine, well it is a routine. Play 'army' and then go get drunk... not realistic, more like paintball with no feedback.
We aren't fair weather weekend warriors.
Now are you wearing that plate carrier, ahhhh with the plate, when you 3 gun? At first you claimed to do that and now it sounds like you are backing off of that.
Never said I wore it while shooting 3 gun....explicitly said I keep it fast and light. When we train, or play "army" as you say, everyone wears carriers, or whatever they would wear in some highly unlikely dire situation. When I say training, I mean training. When I say 3-gun, I wear my teams shirt, belt rig...I don't know anyone that shoots serious 3-gun that wears any carriers. It would be weird.
Now while you and your buddies are playing army in good weather and until it ain't fun anymore- the SWAT/High risk teams run their drills with guys like you in mind. They will know the layout of your house, the dog, the hallway... just saying for every time a wag can point to where officers are taking by surprise a dozen other times the bad guy goes down fast and hard.
Most bad guys shoot their guns sideways and wear jeans 1000 sizes too big.
Keep believing you can gear-up from a sound sleep to fighting mode before the team is ontop of you- fact is you are clueless if you can even put the vest on in any reasonable time from a dead sleep. I wasn't just in the military, I was a grunt. We didn't train in nice weather, run a drill a few times and then hit the beer, we drilled in the heat, the rain, snow, high wind and breathless air days, dead of night. We drilled over and over for hours at a time, and in a wide variety of terrain, towns, hooches and from a dead sleep or while dead on our feet.
When did I say I was a fair weather guy? 3-gun stops in the northeast in late fall....we have this thing called winter. Doesn't mean we don't shoot throughout the rest of the year...but there's no competitive outdoor shooting.
Believe this if nothing else I have posted- until you have tried to run your little drill while dog assed tired and from a dead sleep you are living in a fantasy world.
All that to say you may think you know your limitations and how it will go down, but quite frankly from all you posted I'm very sure you don't.
Lol, throw me on a course with one of these elite HSLD 30 lbs overweight "operators" I see that claim swat..toss a timer over our heads. We'll see who runs the course quicker.
Now not only am I a progressive firearm owner, I am a combat vet with a few scars that told me very early in life I don't have a big S on my chest.
I don't claim to have a big S on my chest either. What branch?
I maybe as rare as a black Tea Party supporter, how some ever, you are quite common in the never hit a lick, but quite vocal what you can/will do if the cops ever came after you category.... :2wave: