Range: Impact Shooting Center in Cleves, OH (1hr 30min drive from Indy WELL WORTH IT)
Instructor: Donovan (point_1_tactics on Instagram) Stellar military background and his Instagram feed was the sell points for me honestly to sign up for his class. That, and there’s not a lot of training being done with the carbine outdoors here, so why not?
Rounds: 500 *bring 600-700 just in case*
The round Count is very specific because he has a print out of each topic and drill he wants to cover. He doesn’t like just 1 or 2 shot drills. 3 reload 3 or 3 transition 3 or something of the sort.
Class started with a safety brief in the house in front of the range. The house/briefing room itself looked like it was remodeled. Very clean. I was also happy that the rain held up! Had chances of rain but turned out to be a beautiful day of training.
I was shooting with my 16” PSA carbine w/ IRONS!! My first class and I show up with irons lol. Let me tell you in advance, if you’re thinking about taking a carbine class with your iron sights just GET ANY TYPE OF RED DOT. With irons it just seems like the class is zooming by you, it was hard to get any type of sight picture at speed. And then accounting for hold-over. So a fellow student let me use his M&P with a Vortex ____ on there (forgot to ask the exact model but it was a 1-6x variable optic) CRYSTAL CLEAR PICTURE whenever I did figure out the eye relief part lol. My first time experiencing what eye relief truly was until yesterday.
We started with a cold 10-10-10 paper target drill from Lucas at TRex Arms. Then moved on to body to headshot transitions and vice Versa. Then there was sling manipulation. I’m using the Proctor sling. Never thought of sling manipulation until now! Now knowing that the 2pt sling is the end all to slings. It can be one or two point if you know to move your arms and carbine around it.
Next it was the check drill! Shooting your carbine until dry or problem occurs then transitioning to your pistol. Donovan gave me a big tip on how to move the carbine out of your way to get to your backup pistol faster.
THANK GOODNESS FOR THE LUNCH BREAK! I forgot my snack bag and stomach was touching my back by 1. Luckily there’s a Wendy’s 10min from the range lol.
Back to the training. After lunch the barricades were set up, and off to the races we go. Here we’re shooting behind those barricades with the shoot holes everybody on Instagram and YouTube is shooting from. Donovan shows me how to get as many points of contacts I can with the help of the barricades, elbows, cheeks, arms, and knees to get that perfect shot nearly 9/10 times of done properly. And here I’m introduced into shooting the carbine on the move.
We finish off the class with a timed competition between students where we’re trying to fight for the Top Shot Patch. Closest thing to competition I’ve been to, and it was great. Got my blood and my mind flowing!
If you attend this class you will have:
Safety
An instructor that knows how to TEACH.
Fun
Hopefully cool classmates like the ones I had.
Edit: YOUR OWN PERSONAL CAMERA MAN! I can’t wait to get the pix of this past weekend. Can’t believe I forgot to add this. I know we’re there to train for the worst day and pix don’t matter but damn they’re sure appreciated. Follow (hamr556) on Instagram great work!
He has a low light course in September at the same range I’m looking forward to signing up before it’s too late! A highly recommend class and instructor
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Instructor: Donovan (point_1_tactics on Instagram) Stellar military background and his Instagram feed was the sell points for me honestly to sign up for his class. That, and there’s not a lot of training being done with the carbine outdoors here, so why not?
Rounds: 500 *bring 600-700 just in case*
The round Count is very specific because he has a print out of each topic and drill he wants to cover. He doesn’t like just 1 or 2 shot drills. 3 reload 3 or 3 transition 3 or something of the sort.
Class started with a safety brief in the house in front of the range. The house/briefing room itself looked like it was remodeled. Very clean. I was also happy that the rain held up! Had chances of rain but turned out to be a beautiful day of training.
I was shooting with my 16” PSA carbine w/ IRONS!! My first class and I show up with irons lol. Let me tell you in advance, if you’re thinking about taking a carbine class with your iron sights just GET ANY TYPE OF RED DOT. With irons it just seems like the class is zooming by you, it was hard to get any type of sight picture at speed. And then accounting for hold-over. So a fellow student let me use his M&P with a Vortex ____ on there (forgot to ask the exact model but it was a 1-6x variable optic) CRYSTAL CLEAR PICTURE whenever I did figure out the eye relief part lol. My first time experiencing what eye relief truly was until yesterday.
We started with a cold 10-10-10 paper target drill from Lucas at TRex Arms. Then moved on to body to headshot transitions and vice Versa. Then there was sling manipulation. I’m using the Proctor sling. Never thought of sling manipulation until now! Now knowing that the 2pt sling is the end all to slings. It can be one or two point if you know to move your arms and carbine around it.
Next it was the check drill! Shooting your carbine until dry or problem occurs then transitioning to your pistol. Donovan gave me a big tip on how to move the carbine out of your way to get to your backup pistol faster.
THANK GOODNESS FOR THE LUNCH BREAK! I forgot my snack bag and stomach was touching my back by 1. Luckily there’s a Wendy’s 10min from the range lol.
Back to the training. After lunch the barricades were set up, and off to the races we go. Here we’re shooting behind those barricades with the shoot holes everybody on Instagram and YouTube is shooting from. Donovan shows me how to get as many points of contacts I can with the help of the barricades, elbows, cheeks, arms, and knees to get that perfect shot nearly 9/10 times of done properly. And here I’m introduced into shooting the carbine on the move.
We finish off the class with a timed competition between students where we’re trying to fight for the Top Shot Patch. Closest thing to competition I’ve been to, and it was great. Got my blood and my mind flowing!
If you attend this class you will have:
Safety
An instructor that knows how to TEACH.
Fun
Hopefully cool classmates like the ones I had.
Edit: YOUR OWN PERSONAL CAMERA MAN! I can’t wait to get the pix of this past weekend. Can’t believe I forgot to add this. I know we’re there to train for the worst day and pix don’t matter but damn they’re sure appreciated. Follow (hamr556) on Instagram great work!
He has a low light course in September at the same range I’m looking forward to signing up before it’s too late! A highly recommend class and instructor
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