Fun Shooting Day!

[Bailey Guns]

Don (my business partner) and I wanted to work up a new "qualification" test for our advanced handgun class. Here's what we came up with. Shooters are Bailey Guns (tan t-shirt), Sharpienads (black t-shirt) and Don (white t-shirt). These are a few of the early attempts at the drill. It's actually quite difficult. Average times were 19 to 21 seconds for us:

Starting at about 25', from the holster with 3 rounds plus 1 dummy round in the gun, 5 rounds in the spare magazine. We want the shooter to engage the silhouette COM first, then a head shot. Plus the shooter will need to clear a FTF malfunction. This drill incorporates moving off the line of attack, issuing verbal commands and accuracy:

• Draw while moving and issuing a verbal command. (We kept it to a simple "STOP")
• Engage the silhouette with two rounds to COM and one shot to the 6" "head".
• At some point the shooter will need to clear a malfunction and move while doing so.

After firing three rounds the shooter moves to cover and performs an emergency reload. The shooter then engages the 3, 6" plates from cover using only the weak hand with the 5 rounds remaining in the second magazine.

Technical failures (failing to move, failing to take cover) and misses constitute a DQ. We'll require 100% to pass but will allow the shooter multiple attempts to pass.

It's quick, it incorporates everything we taught them in the advanced class, it's fun and requires a minimal amount of ammunition.

As you can see, we all had a difficulty of one sort or another while working out the bugs.

Sharpienads:


Bailey Guns:


Don:


Next video is just for fun...a "shootout" between me and Sharpienads. He's shooting an M&P45, I'm shooting a Glock 19. Notice how the 9MM sometimes takes a couple of hits to move those plates around. You have to have a center hit with the 9mm to really clear a plate. The .45 punches them with far more authority and even a hit on the periphery will clear them easily. The plates probably weigh about 6 pounds each and are made of AR500 3/8" steel.

Sharpienads and Bailey Guns "Shootout":

[Fentonite]

That's a great day! Thanks for sharing. Nice shooting, all.

[MileHighOutlaw]

Now that is a great way to spend a Sunday.

[Mazin]

That looks like a BLAST!!!! Thanks for the Video!

[Sharpienads]

That was a lot of fun!

Thanks for putting up my best run

[Bailey Guns]

Trust me... If I coulda edited out the misses I would've!

Lots of fun.

[wyome]

Good shooting by all...

[ray1970]

Dueling trees are my favorite. Looks like a good day.

[bogie]

Nice shooting guys and thanks for posting the clips.

[sniper7]

very cool! good shooting guys! thanks for sharing