When I was being trained to go to the sandbox, one of the "capstone" events (state-side, there was more training "over there") was shooting and moving from station to station, shooting single hand (strong hand), two handed, and then single hand (weak hand, left hand in my case) while walking, running, or crawling between stations, reloading at least once. I did this with a 9mm pistol, about half the students had M-16 rifles. This was in full body armor, which weighed about seventy pounds, in July, in South Carolina. Before we could start the course, we did some jumping jacks, wearing the armor, carrying the weapon(s) and ammo, to "warm up".
Anyway, my point is that while having all this "fun" I was really focusing hard to (1) not shoot myself or (2) not shoot anybody else, like the other students or the instructors. I thought these instructors were either pretty brave or really stupid, as they didn't wear any body armor, but ran alongside each student to tell them what to do (for instance "kneeling position, strong hand, three shots" or "crawl to next barrier ahead to your left") while we novices with high powered rifles and pistols went through this. Remaining still and shooting from a firing line is one thing. Moving and shooting is a much much more difficult thing to do safely and well. Your range did well to decline, if they had not trained or observed this fellow to make sure he wasn't a hazard to himself or others. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 On January 30, 2017 6:42:30 PM EST, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >They had one guy that was pissed because they wouldn't let him do an >action shoot that involved running from station to station with a >loaded AR. He couldn't see why they had a problem with it. >-Curt > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com