One class I took at this year\u2019s RangeMaster Tactical Conference was Phill Groff\u2019s, focusing on qualifications. The qualification shoot in one form or another is required for virtually all armed American law enforcement, and some states require qualifications for concealed carry permits for private citizens as well. Phill, a Marine no longer in service and an active part-time sworn police officer for a quarter century, is a very experienced instructor with spot-on insights on the matter of qualifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some high points from Phill\u2019s excellent presentation, which included live-fire shooting of various quals in addition to lecture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cQuals should be relatively easy to give more time for <\/em>relevant, mandated<\/strong> training!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Amen, brother. A qualification is a skill test, and while skill testing is a component of training it is not necessarily training in and of itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Groff said, \u201cThe goal of qualification should be finding points of failure and pushing them farther out.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n The qualification \u2013 much like shooting competition \u2013 allows the shooter to identify weak points, which the instructor can then help the shooter to rectify. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Phill presented the radical concept of a 21-round course of fire conducted at five yards with five strings of fire. A single shot that misses the entire target disqualifies the shooter, as does a single failure to get all shots off within the designated time. If that sounds unforgiving, you understand why he calls it the \u201cFive At Five Challenge.\u201d Phill teaches through Vigr Training LLC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One class I took at this year\u2019s RangeMaster Tactical Conference was Phill Groff\u2019s, focusing on qualifications. The qualification shoot in one form or another is required for virtually all armed American law enforcement, and some states require qualifications for concealed carry permits for private citizens as well. Phill, a Marine no longer in service and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9240,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions\/9240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}