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I'm tired, and ready to grab food so I'll share my thoughts later. But So Far I'll tell you they put on an excellent class while keeping everyone safe and covering a lot of info.
So far, we've covered basic malfunction clearing (Type 1, FTF), zeroing, holdover, stance, shooting position, gear, and a lot of stuff I'm sure I missed.
And after a few hours to relax.....
ACT puts on great classes if you've never been to one you need to do yourself a favor and sign up. They do an excellent job at showing you a good way to do certain things and adapting to what works best for you as an individual. I've had a lot of fun today while learning and working on good drills to help with various skills while working with a carbine.
This class started with Classroom instruction. We talked about the safety rules of firearms and something about a knife fight involving Rhino and his mother
. We covered topics about using a Carbine as a home defense weapon and how a carbine works (different parts). A lot of the classroom session was also spent talking about different gear and what works for most situations and preference of other accessories to increase the efficiency of the weapon system for each individual. Gear is one of those topics that's hard to research because everyone is different and different things work for different people. With an AR there are so many different things to put on it, its hard to tell what works best for you. Its good to hear about different options and how things work for different people and why. Best thing to do for gear is to just try it by borrowing or shooting/using someone else's gear if you don't want to buy it before you try it. You could spend weeks on the different things you can put on it.
We started off the range portion of the class by working on a 25 yard zero. After obtaining our zero, we worked on some UP drills that are common among ACT classes (Pistol, carbine, etc). Next we moved on to the subject of holdovers which is easily shown and demonstrated by aiming at the target from extremely close distances (about 3 yds) and seeing how low we were actually shooting because of the height difference from the muzzle to the optic/iron sights. We also demonstrated this by trying different distances so each shooter to guage the different holdover at different distances for their rifle, gear, and shooting style. Ever rifle/shooter combination is a little different so it's best to hit the range and see for yourself.
Once each shooter got a handle on their rifle and various holdover we did more UP drills from various distances while adding in reloads. Reloading on the move can be a lot to think about while manipulating the rifle and trying to remember everything else you're supposed to do but for the most part everything went well. Next on the list was multiple targets all while incorporating all previous skills learned (reloads, movement, etc).
To finish up the day we did malfunction drills, mainly failure to fire clearing. Adding this to all the previous skills of the day make for some fun drills at the end of the day. Overall its been a fun day and I can't wait to see what DR 201 brings tomorrow. If you've been on the fence about a class like this from ACT I would highly recommend it.
I'm tired, and ready to grab food so I'll share my thoughts later. But So Far I'll tell you they put on an excellent class while keeping everyone safe and covering a lot of info.
So far, we've covered basic malfunction clearing (Type 1, FTF), zeroing, holdover, stance, shooting position, gear, and a lot of stuff I'm sure I missed.
And after a few hours to relax.....
ACT puts on great classes if you've never been to one you need to do yourself a favor and sign up. They do an excellent job at showing you a good way to do certain things and adapting to what works best for you as an individual. I've had a lot of fun today while learning and working on good drills to help with various skills while working with a carbine.
This class started with Classroom instruction. We talked about the safety rules of firearms and something about a knife fight involving Rhino and his mother
. We covered topics about using a Carbine as a home defense weapon and how a carbine works (different parts). A lot of the classroom session was also spent talking about different gear and what works for most situations and preference of other accessories to increase the efficiency of the weapon system for each individual. Gear is one of those topics that's hard to research because everyone is different and different things work for different people. With an AR there are so many different things to put on it, its hard to tell what works best for you. Its good to hear about different options and how things work for different people and why. Best thing to do for gear is to just try it by borrowing or shooting/using someone else's gear if you don't want to buy it before you try it. You could spend weeks on the different things you can put on it. We started off the range portion of the class by working on a 25 yard zero. After obtaining our zero, we worked on some UP drills that are common among ACT classes (Pistol, carbine, etc). Next we moved on to the subject of holdovers which is easily shown and demonstrated by aiming at the target from extremely close distances (about 3 yds) and seeing how low we were actually shooting because of the height difference from the muzzle to the optic/iron sights. We also demonstrated this by trying different distances so each shooter to guage the different holdover at different distances for their rifle, gear, and shooting style. Ever rifle/shooter combination is a little different so it's best to hit the range and see for yourself.
Once each shooter got a handle on their rifle and various holdover we did more UP drills from various distances while adding in reloads. Reloading on the move can be a lot to think about while manipulating the rifle and trying to remember everything else you're supposed to do but for the most part everything went well. Next on the list was multiple targets all while incorporating all previous skills learned (reloads, movement, etc).
To finish up the day we did malfunction drills, mainly failure to fire clearing. Adding this to all the previous skills of the day make for some fun drills at the end of the day. Overall its been a fun day and I can't wait to see what DR 201 brings tomorrow. If you've been on the fence about a class like this from ACT I would highly recommend it.
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