Course announcement - (1) day Tactical Shotgun Deployment

[ProShooter]

Proactive Shooters, in partnership with the Commonwealth Criminal Justice Academy, is proud to offer the following class -

CCJA (1) Day Tactical Shotgun Deployment Course

Date: February 17, 2013 starting @ 8:00am

Prerequisite: None
Class Size: 5 student Min & 20 Students Max
Instructors: Tom Perroni & CCJA Staff Instructors
Cost: $200.00

The Commonwealth Criminal Justice Academy Instructor cadre feels that the tactical shotgun is one of the most powerful weapons an individual can wield. The wide variety of ammunition available makes it a versatile tool for self defense. However the shotgun is the most under-utilized, under-trained weapon systems to date.

Our Tactical Shotgun courses provide a comprehensive and practical approach in the operational functions and tactical application of the Shotgun. This course is open to both pump action and auto-loading shotguns.

Instructed by former Special Forces and current Law Enforcement personnel with extensive tactical shotgun experience, this course promotes the safe and effective use of this highly effective weapon.

Topics covered in Class:

• Shotgun safety and handling
• Characteristics and accessories
• Carrying techniques
• Patterning and Ammunition Types
• Slug sight-in
• Multiple shoots / multiple targets
• Tactical reload / Combat reload
• Malfunctions
• Shooting positions
• Shooting on the move
• Shooting moving targets
• Barricades/Use of Cover
• Transition Drills Handgun to Shotgun
• Use of the shotgun for home defense
• Low Light Shooting (Time Permitting)

Ammunition: 200 rounds of bird shot, 10 rounds of 00 buck, 10 rounds of slug ,50 rounds of Handgun ammo

Gear: Shotgun, sling, ammunition holder, Handgun, Magazines, Mag Holder , knee pads, wraparound eye protection, ear protection, weapon cleaning kit, rain gear, baseball style hat, gloves, flashlight.

Course AAR’s:

http://www.mdshooters.com/showthread.php?t=27925

For More Information or to sign up for the course contact Tom Perroni at:
Web-Site: http://www.ccjatraining.com E-Mail: ccjatraining@gmail.com

(540) 322-3000 or (540) 846-7088

[ShotgunBlast]

Man, this looks like a lot of fun. Hope you get a full house!

[ProShooter]

We hope so too!

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[jdonovan]

tag, see you all there on Sunday.

[ProShooter]

tag, see you all there on Sunday.

I'll be there!

[GeneFrenkle]

Maybe I'm blind or just being a dolt, but where is it being held?

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[jdonovan]

Fredericksburg, VA
Classroom is at I95 and route 3 intersection (roughly)
Range is near by.

[MNMGoneShooting]

Ug! Too short of notice for me. You gotta set this up again! Exactly what I've been waiting for!

[ProShooter]

Ug! Too short of notice for me. You gotta set this up again! Exactly what I've been waiting for!

Want me to write a note to Mindy for ya?

[jdonovan]

Hey Jim, if you want class AAR's somewhere else, just let us know where to post 'em.

First class for me with Jim, or Tom and Tommy from CCJA.

Morning was classroom. A brief intro from the cadre, and students. We had a mix of brand new to shotguns to LEO's and civilian contractors, a very broad spectrum of experience across the 10 students.

We had some discussions about slugs vs shot, when, where and why to use which, and their limitations.
Some talk about awareness, OODA loops, and related mind-set. How to mentally prepare for success, and how to implement the mindset into action.

After a few hours of slides and discussions we moved to some handling drills with snap caps. Over vs under for loading, some transitions. All good practice.

A break for lunch and a move to the range.

On range:

It was 12:30 when we got going, and it was cold, and windy... did I mention it was cold?

First drill of the day was to do some patterning. First at 5yds. It was interesting to see that some peoples load/gun combination was already pushing 8-10". Then 10 yds, and then 15. By 15 yds, several shooters were already having 20-25% of the pellets off target. Let me say federal flight control ammo is very impressive. 2" @ 10 yards and only 6-8 at 15y. There were some peoples 5yd patterns that were larger than flight control at 15. We all learned you have to pattern your gun/ammo combination to figure out what it does, and where the pattern goes.

Next up we moved to live fire, static shooter, static targets with reloads.

Firing from cover. 2 Barrels stacked for cover. Take a shooting position, lean out to a side, and put rounds on target. Back to cover, transition shoulders, and repeat to the other side. Take a knee, and repeat. Goal - present an minimum silhouette, and get accurate fire to target. Learned to keep our elbows down, only lean out from the waist, rather than stepping to the side.

Fire from less cover. Assuming you had a larger truck tire/wheel for cover repeat the above drill from your back. Lean out and engage targets.

Then we started moving and shooting while moving. Which was good because it was cold, and the running kept us warm. We did some basic slow walk across the range while shooting, reloading as needed to keep the guns fed.

Once we could all shoot move, reload and transition to sidearm when the long gun went dry it was time to kick up the pace.

We then had several barrels setup to be used as cover. The goal was to move across the range from cover, to cover, while keeping your buddy covered while they moved. A 7 round shotgun runs empty VERY fast, and takes forever to reload vs the carbines most of us are used to working with. We all learned how fast a handgun goes dry when your buddy takes a long time to reload.

After everyone was good and well tired out, we moved to a bit less high-action drill. Fight to your feet. Start on your back feet down range. come up a bit fir, Sit up fire, kneel, fire, stand fire. Now repeat, faster. It was interesting to learn what rate of fire you could maintain while moving to your feet.

Next a bit of how to move around in a home, how to cross a door way, a bit of 2-person movement. Some real useful info here, need to do some drills with the family, so we all know how to work together if we ever need to.

This took us to the late afternoon. The last thing to do was low-light. We had about 90 min till dark, and quite a few of the students had come down from MD, so they had a long drive home, and needed to break away. 4 of us stayed for the low-light drills.

So if it was cold before the sun went down, it got VERY cold when dark hit.

We did several drills of illuminate your target, shoot, and move. Most of us had weapon mounted lights that proved very useful. One student had a hand light only, and we learned a few ways to use a hand held light, how to manage reloads etc. Amazing to see how much our hit-rate went down in the dark.

Even with a well lit target from a flash light, the night sights, on the gun made a big difference in getting good sight alignments. Lasers proved very useful as well, but are not as useful as I might have thought before the class.

We left the range at nearly 8pm. It was a full-day, and was time well spent.

All in-all a heck of a class, and well worth the price of admission. A well run class, very knowledgeable instructors, and lots of good training.

The instructors were good at letting the the material and drills adjust to the students abilities. This was not a 101-type class. If you want to take the class, you need to come in with some base knowledge of shotgun handling, and some bit of tactical training would help the student get the most out of the class.

Definitely will be talking to CCJA and Practical Shooters about some additional courses.

[ProShooter]

AAR's are fine here....I'll repost where necessary.

Thanks for coming out for the class. All the credit for this one goes to Tom Perroni and his son, Tommy. Proactive Shooters was just the host, but we'll be doing more stuff together in the future.

Jim