Estimados, disculpen que no tenga tiempo de traducir lo siguiente. Lo transcribo solo para cuestiones criticas y academicas, y no con fines de lucro.
Asi es como lo explica el Coronel Cooper en el libro de Jack O'Connor "The Complete Book of Shooting" (Edicion 1965).
La primer parte del ejercicio es puramente mexicana, pero Cooper agrega una segunda parte en California (1959) y la incluye en sus instrucciones; obviamente esto afecta los resultados totales de lo que hubieran sido los resultados del tiro mexicano por su cuenta.
Tambien notese como Cooper respeta lo que vio en Mexico, con su comentario sobre las siluetas (blancos) utilizados.
Otra cosa, Cooper lo llama Tiro Mexicano de Defensa (Modificado)...creo que el agrego la palabra "modificado" despues de los cambios de los que habla y que le agrego en 1959. Asi que si aceptamos la version de Cooper, estas instrucciones son muy cercanas a las originales.
Xela
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The Mexican Defense Course (modified). 36 Rounds
This is another old-timer, and a very fine course of fire for either training or competition, particularly as now modified. There are many who feel that it is the best single test of useful pistols skill. Its drawbacks are that it involves some fairly complicated footwork which is difficult to judge, and it is rather more dangerous for beginners than most.
As the name implies, it was invented in Mexico, but the last two "tie-breaker" stages were added in California about five years ago. These last are hard, and to my knowledge the course has never been "cleaned" under pressure, though it may have been in practice.
The course is laid out with six large-type police silhouettes, one width apart. (We still use them, armholes and all, because this is the way the Mexicans set it up.) Two firing lines are marked out, 8 and 10 meters from the targets. All strings are of six shots, and all strings are allowed five seconds.
The shooter stands, loaded and holstered, inside the
8-meter line, with his back to the targets. On the command "Walk!" he starts toward the 10-meter line, hands clear of his weapon. As soon as one foot touches the ground beyond the 10-meter line, the judge sounds a whistle and starts the clock simultaneously. At the whistle the shooter crosses the line with his other foot (jump turns, as in hopscoth, are not permited), pivots, draws, and opens fire. The step, pivot and draw are simultaneous, and the shooter may touch his gun any time after the whistle.
On the first string the shooter stands fast and fires six shots at one target.
On the second string he stands fast and fires one shot at each target.
On the third string he fires six shots at one target, but must advance while firing. The first shot is fired outside the 10-meter line, the second is fired with at least one foot down inside the 10-meter line, and the sixth shot is fired with both feet inside the 8-meter line.
On the fourth string he fires one shot on each target, advancing as #3.
This is as far as the Mexicans go, and it's hard enough for ordinary shots, but experts clean it up to here. Thinking of Billy-the-Kid's exit from the burning McSween house, when he ran to this horse under fire while beating down a group of riflemen at short range with his pistol, I added two lateral stages in 1959 which are not standard. Thus:
On the fifth string the shooter fires six shots on one target at ten meters, the first opposite #1 target and the sixth opposite #6. Two lines are marked on the ground perpendicular to the 8- and 10-meter lines and exactly between targets #1 & #2 and #5 & #6. The first shot must be fired with both feet outside the
10-meter line and to the left of the left-hand perpendicular. The second shot must be fired with at least one foot down to the right of the left-hand perpendicular. The last shot must be fired with neither foot on the ground to the left of the
right-hand perpendicular.
On the sixth string the shooter fires one shot on each target, moving as on #5.
Any error in procedure, such as a foot fault or jumping the whistle, costs the shooter the value of one center hit, which is five on the police silhouette. However, since a shooter might elect to sacrifice 10 points to avoid the lateral running on the fifth and sixth strings, if he is not clear of the right-hand perpendicular at the five-second whistle, his score for the string is halved.
Since the maximum value of a hit is five, 36 shots made the possible score 180. The highest score recorded in competition so far is 179, and anything over 160 is very good.
Xela