Effective strategies to increase student's shooting skills in a military college

Aims. This research was to study the influence of three training shooting skill methods (wind rifle, light weapon simulator and real firing field) on increasing the student’s skills. Methods. Sample consists of students in two classes of shooting skill course in a military college. Subjects selected from the different classes of the same course based on clustered random sampling divided into experimental and control groups. Data collection instrument was a special form of student’s scores registration. Results analyzed by descriptive statistics (frequency percent, average and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (dependent and independent t test, multivariate variance, f test and follow up tests). Results. Shooting skill scores had an increasing rate from the beginning to the end of the experiment. Changing the order of complementary methods (wind rifle and simulator), before training in the real firing field, made no difference in shooting scores. Attending in light weapon simulator, wind rifle and real firing field, showed a meaningful effect on increasing shooting skill scores. Moreover, training in the real firing field, in comparison with two other methods, was more influential. Conclusion. Training by light weapon simulator make a significant difference in shooting skill scores. Moreover, training by simulator and wind rifle could be regarded as complementary approaches and training by real weapon would be emphasized.