Firearms Training and Practice - Focusing on skills, not gear.

[Pretend To Imagine]

It is extremely disheartening how many PDWs are lazyly engineered direct blow back weapons. Having a very handy small package that suppresses well and can mount and capitalize on force multipliers is too much to ask I guess. Best we can do are AR9s, B&T line up, and I guess an MP5K. All of which sort of suck in their own ways.

The whole purpose of the pdw is to be more effective than a pistol but easier to transport than a rifle. You have to make compromises

 

[AncientPhosphur]

if anybody wants an excellent tool for dry fire practice, get a Mantis system, they automatically reset your trigger.

https://mantisx.com/

I still maintain a licensed airsoft pistol is the best for dry fire at short ranges so long as you’re not chasing the BB down sight. About the same cost as a mantis system, can switch between targets. Been working on refining things by adding brown packing tape over a hoodie for feed back because they’ll pierce it and sometimes they capture the bbs.

 

[Boney]

I still maintain a licensed airsoft pistol is the best for dry fire at short ranges so long as you’re not chasing the BB down sight. About the same cost as a mantis system, can switch between targets. Been working on refining things by adding brown packing tape over a hoodie for feed back because they’ll pierce it and sometimes they capture the bbs.

I think the general consensus that was reached about it having the same value as dry fire is entirely agreeable for everyone. Allegedly we have a grand master in here that attributes his success entirely to dry fire, and I'm inclined to believe him. Having the added benefit of a BB going down range and marking a target can't hurt if you are conscientious of the differences.

 

[Pretend To Imagine]

Trying to learn more, and get better with the time I have available.

 

[Dean Pentel]

Trying to learn more, and get better with the time I have available.
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Stoeger is legit. He's often not as socially graceful as it would serve his career to be but that does not detract from his skills as a shooter and instructor. I recommend you attend a class of his if ever you can.

 

[Pretend To Imagine]

Stoeger is legit. He's often not as socially graceful as it would serve his career to be but that does not detract from his skills as a shooter and instructor. I recommend you attend a class of his if ever you can.

I would definitely like to attend one of his classes

 

[Pretend To Imagine]

Solo range trip practice session today. About 200 rounds of rifle, and 200 of pistol. Rifle practiced at 200, 300, and 400 from a bipod with Eotech and 5x magnifier. Practiced standing off hand at 100 with target transitions. Took some shots standing unsupported at 200, 300, and 400. Did pretty well at 200, some hits at 300, but not reliably. I don’t think anything connected at 400.

Did some pistol standing at 100. Wasn’t getting reliable hits. Brought it back in to 15 yards and practiced from concealment bill drills, Blake drills, and failure to stop drills. Unfortunately forgot my shot timer, but my impacts were good.

Had a red dot mount fail and hit me in the face.

 

[Lead Lizard]

Solo range trip practice session today. About 200 rounds of rifle, and 200 of pistol. Rifle practiced at 200, 300, and 400 from a bipod with Eotech and 5x magnifier. Practiced standing off hand at 100 with target transitions. Took some shots standing unsupported at 200, 300, and 400. Did pretty well at 200, some hits at 300, but not reliably. I don’t think anything connected at 400.

Did some pistol standing at 100. Wasn’t getting reliable hits. Brought it back in to 15 yards and practiced from concealment bill drills, Blake drills, and failure to stop drills. Unfortunately forgot my shot timer, but my impacts were good.

Had a red dot mount fail and hit me in the face. View attachment 6380546

Acros seem to be failing at holocaust rates, but the mount failing is a new one to me. Aimpoint really needs to get their shit together.

 

[Pretend To Imagine]

Acros seem to be failing at holocaust rates, but the mount failing is a new one to me. Aimpoint really needs to get their shit together.

I regret switching from an SRO. Probably gonna go back to SROs to be honest.

 

[Lead Lizard]

I regret switching from an SRO. Probably gonna go back to SROs to be honest.

I have to ask though, did you use a proper torque wrench on that acro? Overtorquing can cause a clamp style mount to break like that.

 

[Pretend To Imagine]

I have to ask though, did you use a proper torque wrench on that acro? Overtorquing can cause a clamp style mount to break like that.

I have a Wiha nm/m torque driver. I’m not sure if it’s the best driver, but it wasn’t cheap.

 

[Boney]

Solo range trip practice session today. About 200 rounds of rifle, and 200 of pistol. Rifle practiced at 200, 300, and 400 from a bipod with Eotech and 5x magnifier. Practiced standing off hand at 100 with target transitions. Took some shots standing unsupported at 200, 300, and 400. Did pretty well at 200, some hits at 300, but not reliably. I don’t think anything connected at 400.

Did some pistol standing at 100. Wasn’t getting reliable hits. Brought it back in to 15 yards and practiced from concealment bill drills, Blake drills, and failure to stop drills. Unfortunately forgot my shot timer, but my impacts were good.

Had a red dot mount fail and hit me in the face. View attachment 6380546

Common ACRO "L". Damn shame.

 

[Apteryx Retardi]

Re airsoft, works great for point shooting, or semi-point shooting (off the slide, target focus, QK, whatever you call it).

A 4.5 mm BB CO2 airgun will do in a pinch, but will damage what it hits. An airsoft can be used to plink at light switches, or curtain patterns, or whatever, between doing remote work and shitposting (cats love the plastic BBs all over the place, wimminz not so much).

The tendency to adjust aim by "tracer fire" is real, if your first shot in a string doesn't hit, then the rest doesn't count either. Using black BBs and a paper target every once in a while recommended (or better yet a real gun, of course).

 

[Pretend To Imagine]

Drills today:

Draw from holster and fire three rounds on C zone steel at 15 yards. Par time 2 seconds.

Draw from holster and fire three rounds on C zone steel at 25 yards. Par time 3 seconds.

Draw from holster and fire one round on C zone steel at 40 yards. Par time 2 seconds.

I only was able to make par time and get a clean run once or twice out of 10-20 tries for each drill.

I have a lot of work to do in dry fire getting from holster to target faster. I recently swapped my ACROs for SROs, so I did change my setup, but it really shouldn’t change my index. I also found myself struggling to be target focused, so part way through I occluded my dot.

 

[Boney]

I have a lot of work to do in dry fire getting from holster to target faster. I recently swapped my ACROs for SROs, so I did change my setup, but it really shouldn’t change my index. I also found myself struggling to be target focused, so part way through I occluded my dot.

Occluded dot is such a critical step in reddot training. There is literally no downside. Don't sweat time too much, speed comes with reps, and quality reps have good hits.

Total side note, can't wait to see what ideas about body armor and preparation get thrown at Josh after the recent attempt at Trump. Dude had plates apparently.

 

[Battlefield42]

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Pro-Tip: Literally everyone uses the same training Manual's because Fed & State regulations require it. Don't get over Charged/ripped off by your local grifter who claims their Training is different because they added whatever to justify how much they are charging when for the last 20 years It's all from the same S.O.P. that you could get Free.

This is some good shit

 

[Pretend To Imagine]

https://youtu.be/2VAQxgmXLxA

 

[Pretend To Imagine]

Shot my first USPSA match today. Had to leave early because of a family emergency, but got to shoot 2 of the stages.

Because of my poor stage planning I ended up forgetting about a target on each. They really pile on the penalties for that. Otherwise it was a good time, and I’m excited to go again.

 

[Lead Lizard]

I came across a PDF copy of Ben Stoeger's Dryfire Reloaded book, if anyone's interested.
Also if you go here you can create your own dryfire targets to print out and practice on. It lets you scale the target sizes such that they'll match the relative size of the target at your simulated range.

 

[Procrastinhater]

Shot my first USPSA match today. Had to leave early because of a family emergency, but got to shoot 2 of the stages.

Because of my poor stage planning I ended up forgetting about a target on each. They really pile on the penalties for that. Otherwise it was a good time, and I’m excited to go again.

Important thing is you had fun. It's great training but if you're not enjoying it you'll end up giving it up.
I wouldn't worry too much about dropping targets on your first runs. It can hard to keep everything in order in your head when you're starting out, you feel like you want to rush. Stick at at it, before you know it it'll be second nature.

Glad you enjoyed it.