J'Yan
04-04-2010, 10:25 AM
As some of you know I am an NRA Range master, and teach not only the CCW course for NC, but defensive weapons tactics to civilians and LEOs in Jacksonville.
Well I haven't had a class since I got back on Friday, but the wife and I did manage to pawn the kids off on a friend yesterday, and made it to the range for some quality time. All in all yesterday was a great day.
There was only one other person at the range other than myself and my lovely young bride. An offduty LEO practicing for range qual next week. He was actually shooting pretty well, and shouldn't have a problem qualing.
He is one that has not been through my advanced course. And we got to talking while we were all cleaning our pistols before packing up. It is my firm belief that the qualification course the local LEOs have does not prepare them for real life scenarios. He disagrees.
Their qual course consists of fifty rounds fired at ranges varying from 5 yards to 35 yards. All slow fire, no drawing from the holster, and no stress induced shooting. This is what his target looked like
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q278/NonTypical2004/LEOtarget.jpg
So I made a little bet with him. If he can out shoot me on my own course of fire, then I would provide his training ammo until his next qualification. If I win he has to attend my advanced course at half price.
Twenty five shots, from the holster after being stressed out.
What we did. He went first. We stepped outside, he ran in place for two minutes, did 12 eight count body builders, and 20 four count pushups. Then we ran back inside and started the course of fire. However, instead of shooting at a stationary target, he had to draw and fire failure to stop drills while the target was coming at him, at a rapid pace (the range has it set up so a pulley system moves the targets down range and back so you don't have to shut down the range to see how you did) with the targets starting out at fifteen yards.
On top of this, my wife stood directly behind him and was yelling wife stuff into his ear during the drills.
This is how his target looked after he finished firing.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q278/NonTypical2004/Target1.jpg
Not one single projectile hit the target.
He will be at my next course this coming week.
Well I haven't had a class since I got back on Friday, but the wife and I did manage to pawn the kids off on a friend yesterday, and made it to the range for some quality time. All in all yesterday was a great day.
There was only one other person at the range other than myself and my lovely young bride. An offduty LEO practicing for range qual next week. He was actually shooting pretty well, and shouldn't have a problem qualing.
He is one that has not been through my advanced course. And we got to talking while we were all cleaning our pistols before packing up. It is my firm belief that the qualification course the local LEOs have does not prepare them for real life scenarios. He disagrees.
Their qual course consists of fifty rounds fired at ranges varying from 5 yards to 35 yards. All slow fire, no drawing from the holster, and no stress induced shooting. This is what his target looked like
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q278/NonTypical2004/LEOtarget.jpg
So I made a little bet with him. If he can out shoot me on my own course of fire, then I would provide his training ammo until his next qualification. If I win he has to attend my advanced course at half price.
Twenty five shots, from the holster after being stressed out.
What we did. He went first. We stepped outside, he ran in place for two minutes, did 12 eight count body builders, and 20 four count pushups. Then we ran back inside and started the course of fire. However, instead of shooting at a stationary target, he had to draw and fire failure to stop drills while the target was coming at him, at a rapid pace (the range has it set up so a pulley system moves the targets down range and back so you don't have to shut down the range to see how you did) with the targets starting out at fifteen yards.
On top of this, my wife stood directly behind him and was yelling wife stuff into his ear during the drills.
This is how his target looked after he finished firing.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q278/NonTypical2004/Target1.jpg
Not one single projectile hit the target.
He will be at my next course this coming week.