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The Israeli Shooting Techniques: Or, How to Get Yourself Shot to Pieces in Style By Jim Shults – June 2003 SOF Magazine Note: Essence of Mr. Shults’ report: Israeli teaching method of drawing an empty weapon, cycling a live round into the chamber, and engaging the target when faced with an immediate threat. If you wish to read the complete article written by Jim Shults, you can go to www.sofmag.com and back order the June – 2003 issue for five dollars. PUBLISHED RESPONSE: We, at Strike International, have deep respect and admiration for the state of Israel and our Israeli friends. However, we feel we have a moral responsibility to comment on firearms tactics being taught that can get people killed or injured. Below is the response we made that was published in SOF Magazine. STRIKE INTERNATIONAL: Follow Up Response –Published in SOF Magazine, September edition 2003, by: Jack Perritt George Wiley Mr. Shults is to be commended on his research and assessments of those techniques. Strike International instructors actually tested the techniques against the “American” methods of tactical firearms training and did a comprehensive evaluation. Result: What we found was that the “Israeli” methods were woefully inadequate if you were having to react to an explosively and sudden deadly force confrontation. One instructor using the American method, was able to get off two or three shots each time from the draw compared to the Israeli technique of drawing, cycling, and firing one shot with one hand. Anytime you bring an unloaded gun to a fight, you are already behind the curve. At close-quarters distances where reaction time is compressed, the best you might be able to do with the Israeli method is come out with a tie, but I doubt it. I don’t know about you, but I want to win! While evaluating this method of shooting, our instructors noted several other problems that came to their attention but it would take too long to address. Jim Shults did a great job of condensing some of the most glaring issues with the “Israeli” method and exposing its overall weaknesses. If people are buying off on this technique then it is obvious they are neither serious shooters nor tacticians. Thank you Jim, for that informative article.
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