Posted: 4/18/2007 6:55:37 PM EDT
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The situation that occured in Virginia has really hit me that I am not nearly as good at shooting while moving as I could be. Not that I am not a great shot and I have shot while moving during my CCW class. This or next weekend, I will be making stand up target stands that are 6' tall for shooting defensive and offensive senarios. This is clearly a survival prep in my judgement as it is directly related to my living through a situation like in Virginia Tech. My nefew is a good shot, but I have neglected to teach him to use cover properly. He has also never had to move while shooting as well. I am going to start to teach him to do tactical reloads, even if he never uses it in real combat as this practice will help him get faster with regular reloads as well. We will start doing drills with different senarios as well. Pieing corners is also another focus of training for him to learn. Teaching him will reinforce my tactics and get me back into practice. If everything goes well, maybe we can go to a real shooting school together someday. |
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The rest of my preps are great. Atleast 3 months of food on hand and buying more every month. I have enough ammo and guns to arm a small army. I have lots of extra OTC medicines and first aid supplies. Water purification of several types. I have disposible income so the supplies part is easy. In the end, my abilities will dictate how well me and my family do in SHTF senario. How I use my supplies. Not only the guns, but other survival techniques. Practicing with my firearms is just a fun and interesting way to work on my preps with my nefew who is very much on board already. |
| See if you have a local IDPA group nearby to shoot with - the game they shoot is good cheap reinforcement of skills and you don't need anything more than a stock pistol + 3 mags, belt holster and a mag holder (of course eye/ear protection). Don't get caught up in the game but rather focus on the fundementals...look around you will find many other shooters doing the same thing. |
I agree with the IDPA thing. I've had the opportunity to participate in a few IDPA shoots locally and was quick to see everything I didn't know. Practise is one thing, but actually putting that to practical situations was something totally different. It also introduced me to my "mentor" who is a former US Marshall/ATF agent. He's taught me more in the last year than I ever dreamed of. |
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I do IDPA and while I do not like some of their rules I treat it as a training session. I don't care about how fast my time is, the debate of "this is my IDPA ISPC pistol but I carry a .38 snubby for CCW"- I shoot what I carry and go for solid hits with as few rounds as possible. I train using proper cover and concealment - tactics is FAR more important then what my time or score is IMHO... that'll piss off hardcore IDPA and ISPC people. 
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What part of Ohio do you shoot? I am in the Northeastern Ohio area. |
There IS ALL KINDS OF SHIT that you can NOT do at an IDPA event that should be done every time you fire a weapon after you are done fireing.If you are not doing these things you are developing bad habits that will get you killed. Perfect practice makes perfect! If you do one thing halfassed because there are rules that say you can not you did not "train" at all! What is proper rule for cover and concealment? MOST people do not know enlighten me. |