About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of genuine competence in firearms training for law enforcement and critiques the current metrics used for evaluation.

This is a conversation about the gap between checking the box and being genuinely competent and confident when it counts. Bryan Williams, Chancey Pogue, Matt Pranka, and Dustin Mowery walk through the real roadmap: why the stigma against competition shooting is rooted in ego and not evidence, why the qualification score is one of the most useless metrics in law enforcement, and what training in isolation actually means when you strip away the buzzwords and get honest about the work. Dry fire...

People in this episode

Guests: Bryan Williams, Chancey Pogue, Matt Pranka, Dustin Mowery

Topics covered

• firearms training
• law enforcement
• competence
• competition shooting
• training in isolation

Keywords

• firearms training
• law enforcement
• competence
• competition shooting
• training in isolation
• qualification score
• ego

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