Practiscores, Fudds, and the Lie That Only M-Class Shooters Survive
Practiscores, Fudds, and the Lie That Only M-Class Shooters Survive. Mickey from Carry Trainer pushes back on the internet's obsession with classifier scores, the dismissal of old-school shooters, and why being a utility player { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization", "name": "Greyhive", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://greyhive.com/static/uploads/images/ae198483-01c9-44b4-a16a-03f516ceaf66.svg", "width": 512, "height": 512 }, "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/greyhive", "https://www.instagram.com/greyhive/", "https://www.youtube.com/@Greyhive", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/greyhive/" ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "name": "Greyhive", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "publisher": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization" } }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/c/carry_trainer#person", "name": "Carry Trainer", "url": "https://greyhive.com/c/carry_trainer", "description": "Carry Trainer is a Greyhive creator producing original 2A, firearms, hunting, and outdoor content.", "image": "https://greyhive.com/lazy-static/avatars/23b35284-668f-4e58-9719-10abce42e4be.jpg" }, { "@type": "Article", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/practiscore-fudds-utility-shooter#article", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website" }, "mainEntityOfPage": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/practiscore-fudds-utility-shooter" }, "url": "https://greyhive.com/blog/practiscore-fudds-utility-shooter", "headline": "Practiscores, Fudds, and the Lie That Only M-Class Shooters Survive", "name": "Practiscores, Fudds, and the Lie That Only M-Class Shooters Survive", "description": "Mickey from Carry Trainer pushes back on the internet's obsession with classifier scores, the dismissal of old-school shooters, and why being a utility player beats chasing the dragon.", "articleSection": "Training & Skills", "articleBody": "If you've spent five minutes in firearms social media lately, you've seen it: the demand to \"show me your PractiScore,\" the dismissal of anyone over 45 as a Fudd, the claim that if you're not a USPSA Master-class shooter you have no business carrying a gun. Mickey from Carry Trainer spent eighteen minutes pushing back on that nonsense, and the argument deserves a longer life than a YouTube comment thread. The premise of his commentary is simple: classifier scores are a useful test, not a survival threshold. The men who built modern defensive shooting — Ken Hackathorn, Bill Wilson, Mas Ayoob, Larry Vickers, Cameron Hopkins — created these drills to quantify skill, not to gatekeep it. Treating a sub-two-second Bill Drill as the line between \"competent defender\" and \"going to die\" misses the entire point of why the Bill Drill exists. What follows is a breakdown of Mickey's central argument, the historical context most online critics are missing, and why the multidisciplinary \"utility player\" approach beats chasing the dragon every time. Key Takeaways The Bill Drill — six rounds into the A-zone at 7 yards — was designed by Bill Wilson as a stand-and-deliver baseline test, not a sub-two-second survival benchmark. Concealed carry was illegal in most of the United States within living memory; Mickey's home state was the last to pass an…