During the 1950s, the Alabama Highway Patrol drove without partners in their cars, but they were issued M1A1 carbines in addition to their handguns. In Tuscaloosa, a Highway Patrolman named Dutch Wigley asked McDaniel to teach him how to hip-shoot his M1 carbine. McDaniel employed basically the same training procedures as were described above in teaching the peace officer to hip-shoot the BB gun, and was amazed at the potential damage the trained officer could do to a large group of armed men at 50 to 100 yards by hip-shooting the carbine in semiautomatic fire. That was when McDaniel invented the training technique later adopted by the US Army as "Quick Kill".