After each segment- ( I was in there nine minutes. It felt like two hours!!!!) the officer in charge critiques your shooting, because the system records each shot you take, how fast, where, etc.

After the second simulation he ran it back and said “Here’s your first shot and here’s … what? I turn to look at him and he runs through the simulation in super slow to find that what he thought was my second shot was my fourth.

“Hold on, you shot three times in the face. The software caught it but the gun only sounded off once” The guns used are specially modified Glocks, with “Magazines” that have CO2 cartridges. The cartridges are what cause the slide to operate, and give you as realistic a feel as possible. Plus during simulation they only fire 15 rounds, and you have to reload.

Anyway, I had shot the gunman three times in the face and it happened so fast the software only made the ‘Gun sound” once.

“With a real gun I probably wouldn’t have been able to do that” I said.

“Those trainers are calibrated so they have the same rate of fire as real Glocks. You pulled the trigger three times in 1.3 seconds and put all three shots right in the guys snotlocker. Good marksmanship. Where’d you learn to shoot like that?”

I didn’t have the heart to tell him. I was so pleased that I wasn’t “That guy” that I just grinned.