Byron Quick
Moderator In Memoriam
November 30 through December 2, I attended Handgun/Carbine combatives at Shootrite instructed by Tiger McKee. The weather was wonderful for an outdoor class.
During the three days, maybe an hour and a half was spent in the classroom. Everything else was on the firing line. Started at 0830 and finished around 1630. Broke for lunch for an hour each day. Each evening I headed down to the Sauty diner, ate, and hit the sack. Tiger's cure for insomnia.
There were only three of us in this class. A SWAT team instructor and a young LEO...with a LOT of training classes under his belt. Definitely not the LEO's often written about on THR who only shoot once a year on qualification.
These guys could shoot.
The focus of the class was situations where it was faster to transition to your sidearm than to attempt to remedy the malfunction on your carbine or to reload it. Ranges were from halitosis to twenty five yards.
Initially Tiger used a shot timer to prove a point to us. We did various shooting drills including malfunction drills with the pistol. These were timed and recorded. Then we did the same drills with the carbine and these were timed and recorded.
Next we transitioned to the pistol when the carbine either ran empty or malfunctioned. This was timed and recorded.
Now we examined our times and compared. Transitioning to pistol was done about twice as fast as getting the carbine reloaded or the malfunction cleared.
During the three days, maybe an hour and a half was spent in the classroom. Everything else was on the firing line. Started at 0830 and finished around 1630. Broke for lunch for an hour each day. Each evening I headed down to the Sauty diner, ate, and hit the sack. Tiger's cure for insomnia.
There were only three of us in this class. A SWAT team instructor and a young LEO...with a LOT of training classes under his belt. Definitely not the LEO's often written about on THR who only shoot once a year on qualification.
These guys could shoot.
The focus of the class was situations where it was faster to transition to your sidearm than to attempt to remedy the malfunction on your carbine or to reload it. Ranges were from halitosis to twenty five yards.
Initially Tiger used a shot timer to prove a point to us. We did various shooting drills including malfunction drills with the pistol. These were timed and recorded. Then we did the same drills with the carbine and these were timed and recorded.
Next we transitioned to the pistol when the carbine either ran empty or malfunctioned. This was timed and recorded.
Now we examined our times and compared. Transitioning to pistol was done about twice as fast as getting the carbine reloaded or the malfunction cleared.