{"id":3688,"date":"2016-04-23T22:36:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T02:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2016-04-23T22:36:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T02:36:17","slug":"busmans-holiday-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/busmans-holiday-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSMAN\u2019S HOLIDAY COMPLETE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whew! Coming back from the \"Mas_cert\"Rogers Shooting School <\/a> Intermediate\/Advanced Course in Ellijay, GA \u00a0the Evil Princess and I agreed that it was the most fun week we\u2019ve spent together so far this year. We both met our goals\u2026and we both had to work like hell for it.<\/p>\n

When it was over, we had each put thousands of rounds of spent brass on the ground. We had also picked them up at the end of each day: this ain\u2019t tennis camp, and you clean up your stuff and leave the place as you found it, just like in the woods.<\/p>\n

There are lots of AARs (After Action Reports by students) to be found on the Internet for any shooting school, including Rogers\u2019.\u00a0 The classic one is the series by the late, great Todd Green<\/a>, eulogized in these pages last month.\u00a0 In one class of heavy hitters I read about, only one shooter actually earned Advanced rank in the demanding 125-target high-speed test.\u00a0 In ours, about a third of the 18 students made Advanced.\u00a0 Bill and his staff told us that was an unusually high percentage.<\/p>\n

Gail and I are used to running with the big dogs. In this class, some of those big dogs were more like a wolf pack. The pressure was ON!<\/p>\n

In the decades that the Rogers School has been a beacon for SEALs and other high-speed, low drag professional trigger-pullers, you can count on your fingers the world-class shooters who\u2019ve shot a perfect score. Bill Rogers himself, of course, and guys like Manny Bragg, Rob Leatham, and Gabe White. (Google will tell you who those folks are.) No perfect scores were shot last week, but we all watched Rogers himself demonstrate the test and shoot a score in the 120s out of 125 possible, with a Gen4 Glock 17 with duty trigger pull weight and hot NATO 9mm ammunition. Witnessing Bill\u2019s performance was almost worth the price of admission by itself.<\/p>\n

Top shot in the class was an 18-year-old kid whose name I can\u2019t use, but it\u2019s a name I expect you\u2019ll be seeing on the match-winners\u2019 lists in International Practical Shooting Confederation championships in years to come.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I made Advanced, but by the skin of my teeth and I had to work<\/em> for it.\u00a0 There are lessons in that, and I\u2019ll discuss those in some detail in the next entry in this blog.\u00a0 In the meantime, feel free to order on DVD Bill\u2019s training vid<\/a> on what he teaches and why.\u00a0 And, here\u2019s one of my runs on the course caught on smart-phone vid by one of Bill\u2019s masterful instructors, Kyle Armstrong. The drill was draw when the first target comes up and shoot it and its six accomplices in turn as they briefly expose themselves, dominant hand only. Then a pause to reload and go to ready position, and do the same non-dominant hand only. The pistol I\u2019m using is a Springfield Armory XDM 5.25, with Blazer 147 grain 9mm plated bullets, and holster is a Comp-Tac.
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