So over the weekend Brayden, Brian and I went to a One Shot Tactical pistol course, it was for beginners and truth be told I thought it was a bit easy but still I picked up a few good points and had an excellent time.  I like that the instructors spent a lot of time with the individual students asking people to try things over and over so they can get a good read and give suggestions, then follow up with some good 1 on 1 time to get things working.

I didn’t sleep well the night before, I guess it was the anticipation of the upcoming fun but the adrenaline kept me going and very surprisingly I shot the best of the whole group!  I found that surprising since I’m not that great with my pistol but everything I was told to shoot I could hit fairly easily whether it was standing or on the move. 🙂  Poor Brayden the rear sight on his Glock 34 was loose and moving around, his groupings were great but his shots were pretty off and had to adjust a lot on the fly.  Brian was using his Rock Island Armory 1911 in 9mm and put a Trijicon RMR on top, lol it’s like cheating with that thing but haha I still beat him with the irons on my HK SFP9. 😀

The drill for the first video was to score 5 hits on the assigned number, doesn’t mater how many times you need to fire, you need to hit it 5 times and I was able to go 5/5 for a class best 4.58 seconds. Some students needed over 20 rounds to hit that 2″ circle and I’m quite surprised how well I did. A bit later we were shooting at multiple targets, we’re ~12-15 yards away from the small steel plates and I did alright with those too.

Unfortunately I didn’t record with my Contour the fire and movement stuff but I did pretty well there too. I have some cell phone video that I’ll upload tomorrow or later in the week as well.

The class ended mid afternoon around 3:30 pm, we said our goodbyes and then went back to the hotel, Bray & Brian took a nap, I went to take a shower then drove around North Bay to take over the Pokegyms lol. Of the players I spoke to most were in the mid teens levels with a few in the low 20s but no one had any good Pokemon so I was able to take 4 gyms over easily. 🙂 Of course due to the way the game’s structured, even though I’m at a higher level with strong pokemon it’s pretty easy for others to beat me.

Anyway we headed back to the range at 8 pm to do some low light work so we all donned our plate carriers with armour and ran with rifles. In the picture where you see the huge muzzle flashes, I was taking pictures and the guys were doing number drills (I called out a number and they had to shoot it) at close range. Hehe Brian took a very cool NV video of me shooting at targets with the DD MK18 & HK SFP9.

After taking pictures we buckled down and practiced fire & movement drills, fire from cover and support hand firing. It was so much fun too but the mosquitoes were out in force, I wore shorts and got eaten alive!!! At 10:30 pm it started to rain so we called it a night, headed back into town and hit a McD’s to get some victory ice cream, a great way to end an awesome day.

I slept ok at the hotel and set the alarm for 7am so I could get home nice and early and rolled into the driveway just before 10:30am. I was pretty darn tired most of the day but still took B swimming (almost nodded off a few times) and after dinner took him to the park to play.

What an awesome weekend, I got sunburnt, eaten by bugs, shot my guns well and spent some time with good friends…