"Mozambique Drill"

The Mozambique Drill is another good sight/trigger skill builder. For the layman, it is 2 hits to the "A" zone, 1 to the head. It forces you to go from a coarse sight picture to a fine sight picture. It is useful in breaking the shooting in cadence habit and allowing the sight to dictate when the shot breaks. This one is kind of sloppy.

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[shootingcoach]

I've been competing for almost 30 years now. I think it probably isn't too much of an exaggeration.

[lovshooting]

actually in an ipsc match your head shot would have been considered a mike.

[shootingcoach]

@lovshooting

Don't know who taught you how to score, but in any IPSC match I've been to (which is several thousand including severa championships), that would be scored a "B".

[IMFDB]

I think Michael Mann created this trademark execution and directed it in two of his films, heat and collateral.

[shootingcoach]

@IMFDB

The late Jeff Cooper coined the term. It was based on an incident one of his associates faced in Mozambique. If you scroll down, there are at least two detailed explanations of the incident in earlier posts.

[inventionssk]

Your description of the Double Tap explains why you teach MD in such a strange way. MD is a in-battle-discovered technique for a situations where a DoubleTap fails and one last AIMED shot has to be delivered to the head to finish the bad guy off. You shoot a ROUGH, but extremely fast Double Tap to the torso, and then you immediatelly get ready for an AIMED head shot while checking oponents condition - he still stands, he gets a head shot.

[shootingcoach]

Every shot fired should be aimed. In the actual incident this drill came from (Mike Rousseau in Mozambique), Rousseau actually missed the head and hit his target in the collar bone, but the T died anyway. Cooper felt that this would be a useful practice to adopt, so he coined the name and the doctrine. Except as he taught it, it was two to the body, assess, then one to the head. Taking time to assess could prove fatal. Most of all, it is an excellent training drill that teaches change of pace.

[Eleetnessful]

LOL OK THAT'S BETTER THAN I CAN DO IT

IF U CAN'T GRASP DOUBLE-TAP IN LESS THAN 10 MINUTES, U'RE VERY DIM

MOST OFTEN, ESPECIALLY IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, YOUR NERVES AND EMOTIONS TAKE HOLD OF YOU AND YOU LOSE CONCENTRATION. PPL OFTEN FREEZE UP. ADRENALINE CAN BE A GOOD THING OR A BAD THING AND THE VIOLENTLY LOUD SOUND THAT BURSTS OUT CAN MAKE MOST PPL DO JUST THAT

[dedicatedkiller11b]

@shootingcoach John Dean "Jeff" Cooper? That guy was awesome... Great videos by the way chief!

[Jamesbaby286]

Whoa!! Those clouds are moving fast!!

[99arthur1]

@shootingcoach I know who you are, and the people that can shoot better than you are far and few between, and none of them are posting here

[klogdogger]

@shootingcoach do you even know how many several thousand is??! You would have to, at the very least, go to one everyday for 5.5 years! I think you should re-evaluate your exaggeration.

[hpmacmurray]

Call it what you want-two in the body and one in the cabeza means you are either dead or still standing and thats the difference.

Remember-always double tap,and enjoy the little things.

[VladiSSius]

@richie8811 lol mozambique drill is from 1970, way back when Infinity Ward is just an embrio.

[richie8811]

wow, he must have learned this from Call of Duty

[cosm47]

Wait a minute. I though the triple tap was standard fare as far as law enforcement is concerned....I've known about it for years, having not even seen "Heat" or "Collateral".

You guys really need to stop thinking that ideas or concepts that have been around for ages were thought up by Hollywood. Hollywood just steals ideas, or uses ideas others have found. It's as nauseating as people calling Debussy's Claire de Lune that "Twilight piano piece."

Illiterate, ignorant, stupid chumps.