Are you looking to hone your shooting skills for self defense?

Do you want to just exercise your second amendment rights?

Then come join us September 12th or September 19th! Aggressive Defensive Solutions is hosting  two sessions of our special 1 Day Pistol-Craft Class at the U.S. Training Center in Moyock, N.C. The 10 hour training course will focus on:

• the draw;
• multiple target management;
• adverse angle shooting;
• reload techniques;
• and behind the curve shooting.

This course is designed as a challenging, yet fun, range day to reinforce basic shooting skills and provide the basis for more advanced skill sets. Students should have a working knowledge and basic skill with their handgun. The Cardinal Rules of Firearm Safety, The Fundamentals of Marksmanship, and basic skills such as loading/unloading and the draw should be mastered before attending this training. The nature of this class is challenging though not daunting.

Required equipment for the class will include:

• Handgun
• 3 magazines (6 speed-loaders for revolvers)
• Holster
• Magazine pouches
• Eye protection (wraparound)
• Hearing protection
• 400 rounds of ammunition
• A good attitude and a willingness to learn.

The cost of this class is $130- per shooter (minimum class size 6, maximum class size 18)

Due to security requirements of U.S.T.C, all participants must preregister to gain access to U.S.T.C.

Class dates are Sept 12, 2009 and Sept 19, 2009.

Interested, want more information, or ready to reserve a spot contact us today. or download the flyer

First things first, always review the Cardinal Rules of Firearm Safety before loading your weapon, now move on to other range safety controls, proper loading and unloading procedures and finally do a review basic marksmanship skills. Determine how fast you should perform these drills. A good rule of thumb is to base your speed on your accuracy. If you are missing the black you probably need to slow down to work on your accuracy and your fundamentals, but if you are driving every round in the center of target, then you need to speed it up. 

3” DOTS or B3 at 7 YARDS [Get our custom 3 inch dot target] 

• Low ready: one shot 4 times
• High ready: one shot 4 times
• Low ready: two shots, one target 4 times
• High ready: two shots, one target 4 times
• Low ready: two shots, one shot each on two separate targets 4 times
• High ready: two shots, one shot each on two separate targets 4 times

8” DOTS, BODY or B8 at 10 YARDS 

• Pivot left and right 90 degrees and 180 degrees: start at Low ready facing away from the target: turn (each direction), four shots, two shots each on two separate targets 2 times each direction (left and right 90 degrees and 180 degree pivot) 
• Transition drill: start with no magazine in your carbine. Click, transition to pistol, two shots or dry fire once 5 times.

8″ DOTS, BODY or B8 at 25 YARDS 

• Reload drill: from ready, one shot, Emergency reload, one shot. Recover magazine and perform Tactical reload to set up drill 4 times.
• Soft malfunction (fail to fire) drill: start with an empty chamber in your carbine, full magazine, click-tap, rack, engage with two shots 4 times.
• Standing to kneeling to prone: two shots each position 5 times.

8″ DOTS, BODY or B8 at 15 YARDS 

• Shoot on the move (box drill): Two targets, first run with 1 shot each, second with 2 shots each.

Additional tips: 

1. If unable to move at the range, do the static drills both strong and weak side or double up on strong side drills. Practice movement and manipulation at home dry.
2. While doing the 7 yard and turn drills, load multiples of 8 rounds if you wish to do more transitions.
3. Remember to utilize the workspace when performing all reloads and immediate action drills.
4. Remember at less than 25 yards/meters transition to secondary weapon to stay in the fight. At distances greater than 25 yards/meters seek cover and perform immediate action to clear carbine stoppage.

Special thanks to guest author Mark Tiedemann for contributing this series of drills. Feel free to leave Mark a comment here or look for him on m4carbine.net where he is a forum moderator. 

The instructors at Aggressive Defensive Solutions use a variety of different optics and many of these are only used for specific classes. In order to keep all these straight and not blow the zero every time we switch sight systems the instructors mark the underside of the sight or optic with the rail slot number it was zeroed on. For example, my EOTech is zeroed with the locking bar installed on T18 and my ACOG locks on slot T2. The bottom of these sights are marked with a white paint pen, or labeler tape listing T18 and T2, respectively, that way all I have to do is look at the bottom of the sight, align it with the correct rail slot and then I can fire three rounds to confirm my zero instead of having to re-zero my sights. Saves time, saves money! Your thoughts? Comments?

The highpoint of the week was the surprise visit of Ric’s old friend Todd Jarrett who spent about an hour on the range with the class providing tips and tricks, and answering questions. Todd also gave the students an impromptu class on an improved grip for use with a barricade he is now teaching his students to help the shooters stability. Todd’s technique allows the shooter to have a very stable grip using only his support hand. We can accomplish this by creating an almost vise like grip between the weapon and the barricade. At AggDefSol we teach student to use barricades as cover and to keep off their cover, but we recognize Todd’s new weapon hold provides the shooter the ability to take the long shot with much greater accuracy. Thank you Todd.

Interested in a class contact us!