Tactical Pistol 1

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I took the Tactical Pistol 1 course June 7th-11th and would highly suggest this course to anyone that has not taken a course before. My class consisted of 5 people, 1 person had taken the basic pistol, the other 4 of us had never had a pistol course of this nature before. Our experience included 1 guy that had never fired a pistol before, a NYPD plain clothes officer, 1 year of shooting w/ a couple of IDPA events (Me), and two other average shooters like me.

There is not a good description of the course online so none of us knew what to expect, but it was well thought out and built nicely each day, as follows

The first day there was about 3 hours in the classroom reviewing information about the facility, 4 rules of gun safety, 7 fundamentals of marksmanship, Col Cooper’s color codes of readiness. Then at the range before lunch we did a few minutes on gear placement, covered range commands, and did couple sight picture drills. After lunch we worked though the fundamentals.

Thursday was the night shoot (until 10pm)and we did most of it in the shoot house and Friday afternoon was the Rogers range. The rest of the week we worked through all of the following and more.

Draw
[ul]
[li]Open Carry
[/li][li]Concealed Carry
[/li][li]Open Carry – SHO
[/li][li]Concealed Carry – SHO
[/li][/ul]
Grip
[ul]
[li]Two Hand
[/li][li]One Hand Only
[/li][/ul]
Ready Positions
[ul]
[li]High ready
[/li][li]Low Ready
[/li][li]Entry Ready
[/li][li]High Port
[/li][/ul]
Shooting Positions
[ul]
[li]Isosceles
[/li][li]Kneeling
[/li][li]Prone
[/li][li]Rollover Prone
[/li][li]Moving
[/li][li]Forward
[/li][li]Backward
[/li][li]Side to Side
[/li][/ul]
Sight Alignment
Sight Picture
Breathing
Trigger Press
Reload
[ul]
[li]Emergency (Slide Lock)
[/li][li]Strong Hand Only
[/li][li]Support hand only
[/li][li]Tactical
[/li][/ul]
Follow Through
Shooting Multiple Targets
[ul]
[li]Selecting target
[/li][li]Transitioning between targets
[/li][/ul]
Shooting a Moving Target
[ul]
[li]Tracking
[/li][li]Ambush
[/li][/ul]
Cover
[ul]
[li]Vertical
[/li][li]Horizontal
[/li][li]Low
[/li][li]Movement to Cover
[/li][/ul]
Malfunction Clearance
[ul]
[li]Soft Malfunction
[/li][li]Hard Malfunction
[/li][/ul]
White Light
[ul]
[li]Discipline
[/li][li]Techniques
[/li][li]Modified FBI
[/li][li]Neck Index
[/li][li]Rogers
[/li][li]Harries
[/li][/ul]

I am a voracious reader on topics that interest me and very little was completely new, in fact Magpul’s “Art of the Dynamic Handgun” covers > 80% of the material that was verbally taught (although there are differences of opinion). The advantage of this course is in the interaction with the instructors (being able to discuss the advantages of one technique over another), the drills, learning your gear, and tips that aren’t covered in the “lecture” portion.

My biggest learnings were:

[ul]
[li]How reliable a Glock is (2500rds in 5 days no cleaning and no stopages)
[/li][li]How to avoid common training scars
[/li][li]How bad a sight picture can really be to get an 8" group
[/li][li]Most Glocks shoot left, it wasn’t me
[/li][li]Rolling my elbow out just a hair helps me manage recoil
[/li][li]My light is too bright for me in most applications with a gun
[/li][li]A good concealment holster (MTAC or VM2) cost me about .3 secs on the draw due to my ability to get a good grip
[/li][li]I ride an extended slide stop and shouldn’t put on on my gun
[/li][li]I need to be more focused when I go to the range and “Train” rather than “Shoot”
[/li][li]New drills to work on specific skills
[/li][/ul]

I highly recommend everyone seek additional training and believe that this course should be considered for even a VERY new shooter.

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I’m glad you had a great experience, excellent write up on the drills.
After the Rogers and NYPD shooting my 17, he’s switching from the DAO 226 to a Glock! Smart man.:cool:

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Who was the instructors? Eric?

I’m taking a mossberg armorers course right now and I think he mentioned just instructing a tac pistol 1 class

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The instructors were… Chris C and Mark T

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I recently took the class up at USTC North. It was a great class and I learned a lot.

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Glock’s Shoot left? what do you mean?

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During the course both another shooter and I had to move our rear sight to the the right to compensate for the POI being left of POA. Both of my instructors had their sights drifted right (one about to the end of adjustment) and Chris mentioned to me that he frequently sees Glocks shooting left.

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wow, first time i hear about this.
I am not sure what the issue would be? i wonder if anyone else has this issue, i have never had to drift my sight’s to the left. on that note, I am a left handed shooter.

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i’ve seen plenty of glocks shoot to the left. both of my carry guns i’ve had to drift the sight to the right. i think it may be a combination of things for instance in some cases to much finger on the trigger or the weight of the trigger can be an issue. i have to run 12 lb. trigger on all issued or authorized weapons so diff. effect the impact of the bullet at distance even if you have mastered trigger control. you are running a 2lb gun with a 12 lb. trigger it can effect the impact at distance. i’ve see right handed shooters shoot to left and the reverse for the left handed shooters. Looey you my friend are a great shot and have your basic mastered plus i’m sure you run stock 5lb triggers so with your above combination i don’t think you would see to much in the way of having to drift any sights. as a side note any of my glocks with 8lb or less triggers i can shoot fairly straight so i usually do not dick with sights. hope this helps boys.

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first and foremost:
what is up brother, i hope all is good in your side of the woods.
I agree with you, i remember giving one of the guns from NYPD a run :eek:. Those triggers will definitely make you learn some good trigger control, I think that with Glock’s is that final 1/8 of an inch right before the trigger breaks that sometimes gets right handed shooters to shoot a little bit to left and opposite for left handers. It’s very easy to not identify that little bit of hesitation, but i see that happen more often than not.

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Hey Looey how are you?

Here is my experience with Glocks. If I do ‘my part’ they shoot straight, of course. However it takes just a little more concentration to do ‘my part’ on my Glock than it does on my other pistols (DA/SA).

Next time anyone thinks their pistol shoots left (any type) give it to a left hander and see if he shoots to the right. If he does than its trigger control. If he shoots left as well then it may be the sights.