Posted on 09/12/2014 12:09:36 PM PDT by RC one
We have a recent freeper sign up that belongs to this unit.
Does this shooting training look realistic enough to you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI01qKAqYts
sounds like fun. We’re very limited around where I live as far as firearms training facilities go so I have had to improvise. I wish we had some kind of a semi-realistic combat handgun range.
Don’t underestimate the damage a stationary paper target can do. For one thing, they can cause on heck of a wicked paper cut.
Tex (who is from Illinois shows us why):
WARNING ADULT WORDS!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3kJ6SU3ycs
There are no such restrictions on my front porch.
Or on the back deck, for that matter.
It sounds like you should consider starting a new club.
When I practice I like to bring the Ma and Dillon along:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjlDRTemjzQ
At Fort Polk and little Vietnam during the Vietnam war, we trained with BB rifles for quick shooting, and shot at targets that were about half the size of playing cards, from our waist.
Which begs the question, who are these homeowners? To whom are the militia a threat? Rioters, looters, blue helmets and out of control politicians come to mind.
very realistic. including the accidental discharge. Not sure how necessary the FMJ round are though.
What?
Drinking Millers and shooting the empties isn’t realistic training?
Quite. If IDPA (for example) were a free-fire zone, I wouldn't do it. I'm neither insane nor stupid.
BUT ...
The rulebook does reduce realism.
i know some people who’ve gone through the courses and they’ve found it useful.
I regularly shoot IDPA and other competitions. I agree that it's useful, and a huge improvement over shooting from behind a bench, down a lane, at a static paper target.
I don’t even need to click on that link. I have watched poor Tex shoot himself in the leg many times. I always think of him before I practice in fact. I would LOL but it’s not really a joking matter.
There are conversations where that generalization can apply and be useful as part of making a point, but the strong way you used it, is completely wrong, a lot of bad guys love danger and excitement and by no means do they always operate in packs. When you hear of bad guys being armed to the hilt and security obsessed, it isn't cops they are afraid of, it is the other bad guys that scare them, the bad guys who know that they are armed to the hilt with guns everywhere.
You're talking about that other 1%, and they aren't bullet-proof.
I don’t have a problem with the statistics, I was just trying to inform you that not all bad guys are physical cowards, some relish danger and fighting, it is how they became bad guys.
The solution to this is quite simple, and yet about as realistic as you can get. Two people with cap guns. Maybe one with a rubber knife as well.
Seriously, if you shoot guns a lot, you are used to the look, feel and nature of real guns, so it is not hard to imagine a more realistic cap gun in the place of a real gun.
I’d add on a tripod and a digital video recorder, because you can learn a heck of a lot by watching your “game films”.
You can practice the Tueller drill. Likewise practice your subterfuge, using tricks to get close to the gunman.
Importantly, it *almost* feels embarrassing to shoot at someone with blanks, and that simulates the deadly hesitation you might get when you need to fire real bullets.
I thought everything was absolute. I had no idea that wasn’t true. Thank you for informing me of that. I am forever in your debt.
nope, But it sure is fun, isn’t it?
Holy CRAP! Those guys don’t skroo around!
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