Match Information

Saturday April 16, 2011

U.S. Training Center, Moyock NC

Check-in 8:30 am Range Brief 9:00 am

PRE-REGISTRATION IS MANDATORY for all competitors, vendors, and guests.

Registration Deadline by mail: April 1, 2011 by e-mail: April 13, 2011

Register by April 1st, fee is $35.00.
Register between April 1st and April 13th, fee is $40.00

Fees include lunch and t-shirt

Prizes and Eligibility

There will be a side-match this year, all competitors, judges, vendors, and guests 21 years of age or older are eligible. Prize awarded to top shooter in the side-match.

There will be plaques and prizes awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place individual, 2-man team and 4-man team. We will also have a nice array of raffle prizes, thanks to our many vendors and sponsors.

Competition for prizes and trophies is limited to FULL-TIME Sworn Officers. Auxiliary and Part-Time Officers are eligible to compete as individuals only.

How to Register

Contact MPO “Nani” Stockton Virginia Beach Police Dept—4th Precinct for questions, comments .

(757) 288-8333 or nani2280 [at] gmail.com

Join the VBPD Shooting Team for their 15th annual shooting competition on April 24th, 2010. Aggressive Defensive Solutions is joined once again by Glock and Blackhawk as corporate sponsors of this law enforcement only competition.

This year’s competition is restricted to full time law enforcement officers. The courses of fire will consist of several challenging lanes designed to test your ability to react quickly and accurately under stress.  All competitors will be required to use their duty weapon and duty rig.

Dozens of prizes to the top individuals  and teams and to sweeten the deal top individual shooter wins a handgun from  Glock.

Come out and join old friends in new challenges and ! contact Ric for more information or RSVP on Facebook

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 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.