TX2Guns: Refining the Mozambique for the 21st Century
While training the other day I put in 20 rounds on the tried and true Mozambique or “Failure to Stop” Drill.
After I ran through the drill once I realized something: I had trained myself to PAUSE between the transition from the two shots to Center of Mass to the shot to the Cranial T (Head) Why?
When this drill first came on the scene back in the day via Jeff Cooper, it was being taught primarily to Federal Law Enforcement who, in turn, after a while, begin to teach it to Armed civilians. The drills’ origins centered around an armed suspect who was HIGH on drugs not going down immediately after being shot twice in the Center of Mass. Therefore, putting a shot through the brain stem and severing all motor functions was necessary.
The “Pause” between the transition shot from the body to the head was mainly a Force Continuum/Use of Lethal Force aspect Cops were being trained to follow. “Use only the LEAST Amount of Force necessary to subdue the suspect” or, in other words, don’t shoot the son of a bitch in the head if you don’t have to.
Fast forward to the 21st Century and we now have Criminals like the Dallas mass shooter Brian Isaack Clyde and the Ohio Mass Shooter Connor Betts just to name a couple suited up with body armor making the Mozambique/Failure to Stop more of a necessary skill than ever before for BOTH Law Enforcement and the Armed Citizen.
Bottom Line: Training to give the shooter ANY advantage in the fight is STUPID, even if that advantage is a one to two second pause in our cadence of fire.
Therefore, eliminating the “Pause” between the transition from the body to the head in this drill is a practical refinement we all need to adopt when running it.
Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
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If you’re a CCW carrier, shoot them in the head first. (1) You can’t shoot unless lethal force is justified, so if lethal force is justified, it’s OK if it is lethal. (2) They might be wearing body armor, but if their head is armored, you have bigger and weirder problems to deal with. (3) If you can’t make the head shot, then go for CM. You can tell if one head shot has failed a lot quicker than you can tell if two CM shots have failed.
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Two to the armor, one to the head was never realistic, given law enforcements perpetual lack of training. Two to the armor, followed by two to the hips/crotch is more realistic as those parts don’t move. After the bad guy is writhing on the ground, he/she is much easier to assess as a threat.
Hips and heads, kids. Hips and heads…….
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I know it’s an old reference, but Bill Jordan said that he never saw a person shot in the gut but what he didn’t drop what was in his hands. He said it was 100% of the time.
He shot a lot more people than I have, so I’m in the “hips and heads” group, too.