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WPSN: Pistol 2
Chapter 1: Intro and Safety
Overview of course
Safety Review @16:03
Four Universal Safety Rules
1. Treat all guns as if they are loaded and know the condition of your gun.
2. Keep your finger off the trigger until the sights are aligned and the decision to shoot has been made.
3. Know what is beyond, in front, to the left and right of your target.
4. Don't point your gun at anything you're not willing to destroy.
Range Etiquette
Listen to commands of the range master.
What to do in the case of a medical emergency.
Call out cease fire if you witness any unsafe acts.
Don't do anything with a gun out of a holster unless you're on the firing line.
Magazines can be loaded behind the line
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WPSN: Pistol 1
Chapter 1: Intro and Safety
Situational Awareness @4:15
"But what I'm driving at here guys is you can have a gun, know how to work it and be a pretty damn good shot, but still not really have a real tangible progression in being able to defend yourselves well. If your not ready, if you don't see it coming and you get ambushed it doesn't matter. A deer can run much much faster than crocodile, right? Yet crocodiles still eat.
Rule of Three @7:57
He partly or indirectly discusses the rule of three while trying to get across the idea that gun fights happen quickly and within a close distance.
*See Tom Givens for Rule of 3 (most gunfights involving civilians and felons takes place at a distance of approximately three to five yards, approximately three and one-half rounds are fired, and no further shooting takes place after approximately three seconds.)
4 Universal Firearm Safety Rules @11:21
1) Always treat every gun as if it is loaded, and always know the condition of the gun.
2) Always keep your finger off the trigger until the decision to shoot has been made.
3) Never point the muzzle of a gun at anything you are not willing to destroy.
4) Know your target and what's beyond (behind) it. (In real life self defense situations this is very important)
Range Etiquette @18:34
Each range has their own etiquette. Here are the general terms and rules. Always follow the rangemaster's instructions.
Downrange - When someone uses the term downrange, they mean the area past the line of fire and where the targets are set.Firing Line- The line where you position yourself to get ready to shoot. These lines are either visibly marked on the ground or clarified as a specific location by the Range Safety Officer. In firing lanes, this line is usually just the shooting bench. Only shooters are allowed on the firing line.
Ceasefire - ceasefire is a phrase people use on the shooting range to get all shooters to stop shooting immediately. (At most ranges, you should unload your magazine and leave the chamber open. After doing so, you should step back from the firing line.Hot and cold: Safety officers will often call out ‘hot’ or ‘cold,'. When a range is hot, that means shooters are active, or you are permitted to commence firing. During this time, no one should advance past the line of fire. When a range goes cold, that means all shooters have unloaded their weapons and locked them open (Or in some training situations, the weapon has been holstered).Only when a range is cold are you allowed to go downrange. Hot and cold may be used as commands, and you must always follow the rules of a cease-fire.
@19:40 Today we are going to keep our toes on the firing line. No one is allowed to step forward of the line until I call the range cold. And then we are allow to move about. But guns have to stay in the holsters...Also, our guns have to be pointed downrange the entire time. So for instance, I am in the holster right now, and lets say I'm not allowed to take this gun out of the holster until I walk up to the firing line, and let's say this is the line. And now I can draw and point downrange. I can shoot and do my business and then the only other place I can move my gun is back in the holster. And so I'm out and in. I'm never pointing left, right or rear or anywhere else except holster to target.
@20:38 If you witness any unsafe acts...you can yell "cease fire, cease fire".
@20:52 Don't ever attempt to catch a falling gun.
@21:07 Let's say we have empty mags at our feet. Another rule is your not allowed to bend down at the firing line to pick stuf up...So what we'll do if I need to recover this magazine is first step, I'll reholster, second step I'll kick the magazine backward. And now, behind the firing line, without a gun in my hand, I can bend down and pick up that magazine
@21:47 Anytime you need to reload magazines, as long as you are holstered, you can leave the firing line. You can walk back to your magazine loading station, and you can stack mags, and then you can return to the firing line.
Chapter 2 Operating Your Pistol Part 1
How you pick up a gun @00:34
Straight index finger on the slide. Thumb under grip, remaining fingers around the front of grip. Other hand can assist by lifting the slide. Pick it up like you mean it.
Clearing a gun @1:29
Clearing a gun means to make sure it is empty. To put it in a safe condition to handle the gun or to pass it off to others.
Step one, drop the magazine.
Step two, rack the slide back twice. Do this with some force. (don't ride the slide back). Can use the palm fingers method or thumb finger method.
Step three, lock the slide back.
Step four, visually verify that the barrel is empty and there is no magazine. Look away, then do it again.
Loading the gun @09:17
If the slide is already to the rear, insert the magazine then pull back the slide or release the slide stop lever.
If the slide is forward, insert the magazine then pull back the slide and let it forward.
Loading the magazine @10:17
Chapter 2 Operating Your Pistol Part 2
Holster @ 1:20
What you don't want is some flimsy sock of a holster. If it says universal holster, it's crap. Don't get that. Because now what we do is we think of the gun as a married pair that goes with a holster. (Get a holster that specifically designed to fit your gun.)
Importance of good trigger guard @4:37
Practice @11:27
Clear gun. Put gun, pointed downrange on barrel with slide locked back. Put holster on. Put gun with slide locked back into holster.
Drawing and holstering the gun @16:39
Keep finger along the frame (trigger discipline) when drawing the gun and returning it to the holster. Make sure no clothing or anything is in the way when holstering.
Chapter 3: Fundamentals Part 1
Stance @00:20
Doesn't like the square horse stance due to lack of mobility.
One foot back putting you in a fighting stance. Start with feet a little more than shoulder width apart. If your right handed, step the right foot back about 10 inches.
Now clap your hands out in front of you. Don't lock your elbows, a little bend in elbows.
Lean your head forward until your weight comes up on your toes.
Isosceles stance instead of Weaver @3:34
How to grip a pistol @4:15
Want hand to be as high as I can possibly get on the grip of the gun. Finger is off the trigger high up on the frame. Take the thumb point it up like a big thumbs up. This allows maximum space for the other hand to fill.
Extend other arm, hand open. Turn the hand down (thumb toward target) then put it on the frame giving you a full wrap all the way around the gun. You want the metacarpal of the thumb as high as possible so that from the tip of the thumb down to the metacarpal it's in direct alignment with the slide.
The index finger of the supporting hand around the trigger guard.
Chapter 3: Fundamentals Part 2
Sight Alignment & Sight Picture @00:28
Sight alignment means that our front and rear sight are lined up properly.
Sight picture is taking that alignment and putting it over the target.
When you aim, you're supposed to look at your front sight. So the target will be a little bit blurry and your rear sight will be a little bit blurry as your eye is really focusing on the crisp front sight.
Equal height -front sights and rear sight height is equal.
Equal light - the spacing or bars of light between the front and rear sights are the same.
Correct sight picture - for most guns, middle of target half above and half below the top of the front sight. For Sigs and some 1911's, the target is just below the front sight.
How trigger works @5:48
Light and short vs. long and heavy triggers.
Sig came out with double action/single action (DASA) and what that meant was that it was a long, heavy pull on the first round, but all the rounds after that were light and short.
Now we have the modern striker fired gun. Talks about the slack/pre-travel/prep. After the light pre-travel part of the trigger pull, you hit the wall, which is the increased resistance you feel. The idea is to get through the pre-travel part quickly then ease through the wall. Once the gun goes boom, as the sights are lifting, get finger off the pinned trigger and past the wall, stop and then snap back into the wall, ease through the wall, repeat the process.
Chapter 3: Fundamentals Part 3
Shot Anticipation. Trigger Prep @00:35
The biggest reason people miss is shot anticipation.
So the best thing we can do is go ahead, hold our sights on target, sight alignment, sight picture. Prep the trigger so we get to that wall. Stop and say the word easy. And as we say the word easy we're going to press, press, press until the shot happens. Now, the big goal is to not car about the shot.
Prep, stop, easy
08:16 Dryfire practice presentation and pulling the trigger.
11:46 Live fire
Chapter 4: Fast and Accurate
Trigger Reset @00:13
And the trick is you should never be waiting on your trigger finger. The shot breaks and while the muzzle is lifted, it's your time to get off the trigger. Find that wall again and stop. So by the time everything settles back, your chilling at the wall an now you only have a 10th of an inch
02:22 Demonstrates the wrong way to do it.
03:18 Demonstrates the right way to do it.
So now what I'm going to do is, as soon as the shot breaks, my finger jumps into action. And I'm gonna go, "Off, on!" Off doesn't mean all the way off the trigger. I'm going to keep my finger on the trigger but I'm gonna go past where that wall is a little bit and them I'm gonna snap back to it and I'm gonna stop.
off and on, ease.
Coaching trigger reset
Chapter 5: The First Round Part 1
Importance of the being fast and accurate with the first round
Not all skills that we're going to practice are equally important...so there are a few things that I want you to be really, really good at. I want you to have amazing fundamentals of time. None of that slow aim fire stuff. At seven yards, you can guarantee that hit.
...we're just trying to stop the threat. And that may mean multiple rounds but needless to say, I would like my first round out of the holster to be extremely accurate and really fast because we already went over those time constraints.
@02:37 John demonstrates his draw and fire.
@03:47And this is good cranial ocular. If you want to stop somebody dead in their tracks, fasted way is to flip off the light switch, is eyes and nose. Right here. And that can be immediate de-animation. And if you can do that, it's the fastest way to stop their finger. Here's an ugly reality...If you shot somebody. Boom. Point blank range. And you shot me in the heart. How long would it take before I was unable to pull the trigger?...Even when I have surges in my class, never do I have anyone ever say less than ten seconds...But even if you shot someone in the heart, they may keep fighting you, for at least another ten seconds if they're determined.
The three count draw stroke @07:40
1. Appendix Carry - (using his left hand) I'll grab a big clump of clothes right here at the rear sight. I want to grab, five finger grip right here and I want to come up to my chin. Then draw with the right hand.
Side Carry - (using right hand) On the side, I'll rake, help it into the armpit (he then uses left hand to hold the clothing in place) and then come down and go (draw using the right hand).
Grab the gun with your index finger and thumb in an L shaped position. Don't insert the thumb between the handle of the gun and the waist. Instead, put the thumb over the back of the slide (claw grip).
2. Pull the gun straight up. Then drop your elbow to the side, causing the muzzle to point toward the target. The support hand is then placed in an angle under the trigger guard in a knife hand like fashion.
3. Drive the gun straight out as you move the support hand into position around the frame
@15:50 Four goals with draw. One, out in a hurry. Two, perfect grip. Three, perfectly aligned sights. Four, perfect alignment and perfect sight picture.
Chapter 5: The First Round Part 2
Support Hand Placement @00:40
Now when getting that prefect other hand on the gun you have a few options. 1) You can slap the handle and run it out. 2) You can stop, place it, and then run. 3) Put the index finger under the trigger guard and as the gun's going out, roll it into grip (What he does).
05:14 Problem with fishing (having the muzzle pointed up while extending).
05:48 Problem with bowling (muzzle pointed down while extending).
08:18 Dryfire the draw.
09:56 Step 1 for a side holster. Hand comes up along the gun, then down over it with your hand in the L shape. He seeming allows the thumb to the side of the slide for this draw.
Chapter 6: Reloads and Stoppages
Three types of reloads: Emergency, Administrative and Tactical
Administrative Reload - Just loading the pistol when your pistol for carry or at the range readying your pistol for training.
Emergency Reload - The gun is empty with the slide locked back but you still have a threat or potential threat. Release the empty magazine and allow it to fall to the ground. Insert the new magazine. Release the slide
Tactical Reload - The replacement of a partially spent magazine with a full one. The partially spent magazine is retained in case it is needed. Only done when it is safe to do so (When there is a "lull in the action".
Demonstrates Emergency & Tactical Reloads @01:36
Slide Doesn't Lock Back But Out Of Ammo @2:57
The gun doesn't go bang and slide is not locked back. 1) Tap the magazine. 2) Rack the slide to chamber a new round but since the gun is actually empty the slide stays to the rear which tells you it is empty. Now perform an emergency reload.
Magazine setup on belt and how to handle the magazine @4:57
Want the magazine facing inward toward your navel. Grab the magazine with a five finger grip, with the index finger trailing on the side where the tips of the bullet point. You want your hand and arm forming a straight line.
Grabbing magazine concealed by shirt @06:48
Pull the shirt up with the support hand. Still gripping the shirt, turn the hand down, Elbow up. Reach down and grab the magazine
Accessing the magazine release @7:28
Twist the gun in the hand a little bit to bring the magazine release button closer to the thumb.
Emergency reload steps @09:30
Shot fires and slide locks back
1) Twist gun a little, press mag release button and magazine falls. Bring the gun into your workspace (mag well pointing at the magazine) as the other hand grasps the new magazine with five finger grip.
2) Bring the magazine up and insert the tip into the magwell, arm and wrist in a straight line with the gun.
3) Seat the magazine with the palm of the hand, then hit the slide release or pull the slide back to release the slide.
Tactical Reload as Part of Emergency Reload Drill @13:34
Empty magazine on the ground. Holster the weapon. Kick back the empty magazine. Pick it up. Come back to the firing line. Draw your gun (which has a full magazine and one in the chamber). Perform the tactical reload.
1. Holding the magazine with four finger around. Then open the lower three fingers (magazine held with thumb and index finger).
2. Release the magazine in the gun and catch it with the three open fingers.
3. Insert and seat the other magazine into the gun.
4. Stow the magazine that was taken from the gun (in the case the full magazine)
*For the drill, you now have a gun with an empty magazine but one in the chamber. You can now shoot, the slide locks back, then you perform the emergency reload and shoot again. Repeat the above to continue the drill.
Stoppages, Malfunctions and Breakages @14:39
Stoppage is something you can fix thoughtlessly with an immediate action drill.
Malfunction is something you need a tool for or get creative to get the gun back up in operation.
Breakage means the gun is broken and can't be fixed in the field or perhaps at all.
Two Types of Stoppages: In Battery and Out Battery @15:21
In Battery Stoppage means the slide is all the way forward and the gun is locked.
Out of Battery Stoppage means the slide is to any degree back, whether it be slightly, halfway or completely back and the gun is locked.
One type of out of battery stoppage is when the gun is out of bullets and the slide is back. For this the emergency reload is used.
He says that due to improvements with guns stoppages more often happen with bad ammo or a bad magazine.
In Battery Stoppage @17:29
The basic response to the in battery stoppage is the tap and rack (Tap bottom of magazine, rack the slide).
Out of Battery Stoppage @19:27
The slide is locked back and the trigger is dead.
Tilt the muzzle up to look into the ejection port. If you see brass, go to immediate action drill
-Older method:
1) Lock the slide to the rear to relieve tension.
2) Rip out the magazine. (keep or jettison the magazine depending on the situation)
3) Rack the slide multiple times.
4) Insert magazine. Rack the slide to chamber a round. Shoot.
-Newer method:
1) Unload (Remove the magazine)
2) Reload (Insert magazine)
3) Rack the slide. Shoot
Chapter 7: Hands On
Left Handed Shooters @00:57
One option is to modify the gun so the buttons are on the other side. Some guns have the slide lock lever on both sides.
When using a right handed gun- use the middle finger to press the mag release button.
Closing Drill @03:45
Load magazine with three bullets. Have full magazine on belt. Goal is to make four shots (three bullets shot, emergency reload, continue shooting till four hits are made).
Review of the Day @08:12
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