Instructors who are gentle but firm with the students.\u00a0 Instructors who explain \u201cHere\u2019s why we do what we do here,\u2019 as opposed to \u201cThis is the doctrine!!\u201d\u00a0 Instructors who actually get out there in front of their students, God, and everybody and DEMONSTRATE.\u00a0 And, in this case, a course of fire so challenging that over decades, you can about count on the fingers of one hand the number of people who\u2019ve shot a perfect score at qualification time.<\/p>\n
Yes, the Evil Princess and I are loving the Rogers Shooting School Advanced Course, and looking forward to the two days we have left.<\/p>\n
The class is full with 18 people, three relays of six working the half-dozen identical computer-controlled steel plate bays.\u00a0 While Relay 1 is shooting, Relay 2 is coaching and counting hits and Relay 3 is refilling magazines.\u00a0 Very efficient, and a great bonding experience. Squads on each position change daily so students can get the experience of coaching, and being coached by, different people.<\/p>\n
Class is an interesting mix of cops (mostly firearms instructors), current or former dot-mil, and armed citizens including a couple of physicians and a nurse. I watched the younger of a father-son team pass the Advanced qualification today, only 60% of the way into the course.\u00a0 He accepted the accolade with a quiet pride beyond his years, and I expect his dad is dancing on air.<\/p>\n
With some of the relatively small targets fully \u201cup\u201d to the shooter for as little as half a second, and 125 of these targets presented over the course of nine fast-paced stages (some requiring not only one-handed shooting with each hand, but one-hand only speed reloading) I am definitely getting my daily adrenaline requirement along with my already-predicted annual humility requirement.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a short video of one stage shot by Chris Edwards, who has already passed the Advanced course requirements, shooting his 9mm Glock 17 on what the Rogers School calls \u201ca blast\u201d of targets. (On point to another recent blog discussion, it kinda validates the whole \u201chigh capacity magazine\u201d concept\u2026)<\/p>\n
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