Defensive carbine course with my son
Just took the one day course given by PFC called defensive carbine. I am tired, happily worn out and should be prepping my gear for tomorrow when I start combative carbine. However, I took my 17 year old son out of school for today and had him take this course with me.
50 yard zeroing, 4 different force response shooting drills, transitions from rifle to handgun, malfucntion drills, emergency magazine changes, deliberate magazine changes, and so on were the shooting portion. Prior to this were presentations on maintenance, shooting stances, the legal aspects of deadly force use, and a great presentation on "CYA" (not cover your ass but "can you articulate").
CYA is after a legal shoot- where even the cop there said your only response to a request for information or a statement should be "I want to speak to my lawyer first"- how you can articulate why you shot the perp. Saying "He looked froggy" or "he tried to mug me" is bad- saying "I attempted to retreat but was boxed in by the suspect, I threw my wallet on the ground and told him to take it at which point he pulled a knife and said he was still going to cut me. At this point I drew my weapon and in a loud voice stated "I am armed- do not advance on me". He then bent over and took my wallet off the floor and advanced on me stating "he wasnt leaving a witness since he was a 3rd strike felon. At this point I was in fear for my life and was forced to engage the suspect having no other option. I shot him twice in the chest but this did not seem to slow the suspect down instead angering him and he rushed me. I was forced to engage the suspect again to include the head shot which ended the encounter"
Apparently the latter statement given through your lawyer makes it much harder for a prosecutor to charge you whereas the former leaves a lot of question opne,
Anyway, my son did fabulous- I couldnt be more proud. His transitions were smooth, he consistently shredded his target and the instructors complimented him on his safe handling of both the carbine and pistol. When he said that safe handling was easy- you just mind your muzzle, keep your finger off the trigger, bolt back and on safe. The instructors stated that many "professionals" come through their facility that cannot seem to understand all that. They didnt name names but said they through out and entire SWAT contingent from a major city due to consistent muzzle sweeps of the line with hot guns, fingers on the triggers constantly, and so on.
This was an early birthday present to myself in having my son join me for his first tactical class. Daddy was proud. Daddy also had fun sending in the note to school for an excused absence and under the "Reason for Absence" I put exactly what he was doing.
50 yard zeroing, 4 different force response shooting drills, transitions from rifle to handgun, malfucntion drills, emergency magazine changes, deliberate magazine changes, and so on were the shooting portion. Prior to this were presentations on maintenance, shooting stances, the legal aspects of deadly force use, and a great presentation on "CYA" (not cover your ass but "can you articulate").
CYA is after a legal shoot- where even the cop there said your only response to a request for information or a statement should be "I want to speak to my lawyer first"- how you can articulate why you shot the perp. Saying "He looked froggy" or "he tried to mug me" is bad- saying "I attempted to retreat but was boxed in by the suspect, I threw my wallet on the ground and told him to take it at which point he pulled a knife and said he was still going to cut me. At this point I drew my weapon and in a loud voice stated "I am armed- do not advance on me". He then bent over and took my wallet off the floor and advanced on me stating "he wasnt leaving a witness since he was a 3rd strike felon. At this point I was in fear for my life and was forced to engage the suspect having no other option. I shot him twice in the chest but this did not seem to slow the suspect down instead angering him and he rushed me. I was forced to engage the suspect again to include the head shot which ended the encounter"
Apparently the latter statement given through your lawyer makes it much harder for a prosecutor to charge you whereas the former leaves a lot of question opne,
Anyway, my son did fabulous- I couldnt be more proud. His transitions were smooth, he consistently shredded his target and the instructors complimented him on his safe handling of both the carbine and pistol. When he said that safe handling was easy- you just mind your muzzle, keep your finger off the trigger, bolt back and on safe. The instructors stated that many "professionals" come through their facility that cannot seem to understand all that. They didnt name names but said they through out and entire SWAT contingent from a major city due to consistent muzzle sweeps of the line with hot guns, fingers on the triggers constantly, and so on.
This was an early birthday present to myself in having my son join me for his first tactical class. Daddy was proud. Daddy also had fun sending in the note to school for an excused absence and under the "Reason for Absence" I put exactly what he was doing.