AAR: Vickers Tactical 1-Day Basic Handgun Class - NC - Nov 20, 2010
Vickers Tactical
www.vickerstactical.com
Grey Group Training
www.greygrouptraining.com
First and foremost, doing this on my phone, so bare with me lol
By far the most accurate level 1 class The LAV has seen and I've got to agree. Out of 24 students, there was only 3-5 that has taken a class with The LAV, and only 8-10 that has taken some sort of formal training, so needless to say, half the class hasn't had any formal handgun training. Didn't get into backgrounds of the students, nor names, but that was fine. We had a lot to cover for a single day level 1 handgun class
With The LAV, he had 3 adjunct instructors with him to make sure the line was safe (Thanks to Chris914, NCPatrol, and AMP). Dry fire drills, he had everyone on the line, and live fire drills consisted of 2 relays. Safety was paramount, and it showed by the amount of AIs he had. Not once did I ever feel unsafe.
Out of the many fundamentals of marksmanship, Vickers stressed on Trigger Control the most. And like all his other classes, stresses on accuracy the most. We did the traditional Slow Fire Ball and Dummy drills to help with trigger control. After that, we did 2 more patented LAV Ball and Dummy drills which the names can't come to me this early in the morning. We spent a good hour on trigger control. Shows you how much he stressed it. Since on the rest of the "fundamentals", it was only 5-15mins on it.
Right after trigger control we went into sight alignment, sight picture.
One thing that Vickers did, that no other instructor I've ran into has done, is explained why we concentrated on our front sight when shooting. I'm guilty of this as well. I just tell shooters to concentrate on their front sight, but never explain why nor have I been asked. So that a neat thing to learn.
One of the cool things that I liked about the class, is how he compared training to real world actions. One that stood out in my mind was how we look at sights all the time concentrating on our front sights. In the real world, we'll be looking more at the "Assclown" we're getting ready to drop because we're looking to get accurate hits on target. Concentrating on our front sight in training is fine, so we know where our rounds. But for the most part, when you encounter a bad guy, you won't be concentrating on that front sight.
*I'll add more later, gotta get back to work....
Below is a vid from my phone. Will get the rest off my camera up later tonight hopefully ...
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