Well I just came back from a great and I mean great training session with d90king.
I'd seen several threads on here about training, etc and decided I wanted to do more with my firearms than just plink, so I saw d90's thread here:
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?t=40610
I posted and soon made contact with d90 and we spoke on the phone and arranged to meet today at a range local to him.
All in all, we were at the range for about 2 1/2 - 3 hours, but it felt like 20 minutes it was so much fun.
d90 is a fantastic tutor. He broke me down and we started at the basics. I brought along my Glock 22 and we trained on that almost exclusively. His training method really makes you think about what you are doing and why, which to me as a new shooter is invaluable.
I came away from the session learning LOTS. I am basically new to owning firearms and even newer to firing them. d90 started me off with the fundamentals. We started with safety and the 4 golden rules. Then we moved on to posture (something that I have leaned that I need to work on), sight alignment and most importantly for me, trigger press. d90 used a good method to get me to try and stop anticipating the round going off. Saying a word, mentally while pressing the trigger. We used the word "Presses" and it actually really helped me not anticipate the "bang".
We worked on dry fires and also a ball and dummy drill, a drill where I aimed the gun and d90 pulled the trigger for me and dot torture tests. He taught me to aim, something I hadn't really known how to do before today. "Aiming the gun and not the gun aiming you" as I like to think of it. All drills were performed at close range, about 3 yards. Perfect for me to see where my point of aim, point of impact is (sadly lacking with the G22).
What was nice, is that d90 didn't treat me like an idiot, but didn't get over complicated either. He has a nice balance on things and that also helps you pick stuff up. It was excellent having one on one time with such a proficient instructor. At one point another M4C member was there (sorry, I forget your screen name) and he helped with the aim while someone pulls the trigger drill (sure it has a name but I don't know it).
d90, i did some empty shell on the front sight dry fires, just as a test with my Glock 22 and my Kimber Royal II.
Glock; 4 out of 5 fell.
Kimber; 1 out of 5.
I learned from today that I need to either ditch or replace my Glock 22. The trigger is just plain nasty and is affecting my accuracy. d90 let me shoot some of his very nice 1911s (sorry d90, I forget the makes) and his HKP30. My groupings were far better with ANY gun other than my Glock 22.
Next time we meet up, I intend to buy a M&P9 and I'll bring the Kimber so I can use that just in case.
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Here's my shooting prowess before meeting d90. 5 rounds at 5 yards taking my time and really trying.
Here is the Dot Torture sheet that we did today as our last drill.
As you can see, not amazing, but I actually managed to group some shots, which for me is a great improvement.
I hope anyone out there who is contemplating making it to one of these training sessions really does make the effort as it's well worth your time.
Thanks again, d90king. I'm really looking forward to the next session.
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