Another 2 Day I/I course is in the books!
Here's a brief rundown of what we did.
Day 1 - Breakfast at 0800. Eggs different ways, ham, muffins, coffee, juice, etc. They would need it for the brain power expected from day 1.
Classroom instruction:
Intros, overview, weekend schedule. Optics, rifle fitment, shooting position work.
Ballistics, trajectory, range estimation instruction and exercises. Usage instruction and practice drills with the MDM (Mildot Master), wind indicators and reading, formulating and proving a dope card, recording data in the Impact Data books that were set up expressly for the course, and many other tricks we cover. Dry fire and position set up practice. BRM was the last thing covered before we went live.
Live Fire:
Zeroing. This went remarkably well with all the shooters delivering good, small groups at 100Y right where they were supposed to be. The
Walking out: We started taking the line out longer. Milling the targets with some guided assistance and cross checking. A shooter who hasn't shot past 100Y ever... I loved seeing the look on his face when they score a first round CM hit on a 530Y target and then hearing how he watched his bullet disintigrate against it.
Lunchtime: Roast beef w/gravy and mashed potatoes. Everyone had successfully ranged, hit, and documented targets out past or near 1000Y.
Students spent the afternoon recording good data on the 14 steel targets that were laid out between 300Y and 1052Y. Zero targets remained up, and students could come back and re-check easily if they got tangled up. Also did some reticle work with a holdover drill. Five targets from 300 to 575, 2 min. Most were crushing it without difficulty. We shot until 1800, then broke until the night shoot. The smart ones paid attention and re-checked their zeroes before packing up and heading out for chow.
2030 started the night shoot. We began with low light with a 425Y target and walked out to a fifth target at 530Y. The targets were all painted with a green laser designator so NV was not necessary. The final target was lit with black light flashlights that we staged pointing at it. It glowed like purple neon. There weren't a lot of misses. Again, a fantastic group. When a hit was scored, the entire line would cheer. "OPPAAAAH!!!"
The "official debriefing" was held after the night shoot concluded. We covered care/cleaning/maintenance at that time.
Day 2 - After an equally hearty country-style breakfast of french toast and a whole mess of bacon, it was time for the Cold bore. Students selected a target from the previous day to engage and properly record a CBS. We let them shoot at a new target prototype mounting design that Chet & Chris are working with. I loved it. It rang like a bell, and wiggled like a go go dancer, even with a .223. A review of some of the data books conducted during the debriefing resulted in some gigs (yes, we inspect them). Students re-engaged the targets and got good shots recorded.
We broke at 1100 to move all the targets and get ready for the final course exercise. Every one of the targets was relocated substantially. The students then had 20 minutes to range them all.
After a lunch of roasted chicken, it was time to put them to the test. Targets were called out in random order but we tackled the farthest one first, which was "Z," an IDPA target just shy of 800Y. Each shooter on the line had two rounds to engage the target with the first shot fired in :10, and a follow-up within :05.
Actual Target distances:
752Y Z
685 1
619 O
575 A
503 X
527 W
416 H
475 R
333 I
350 T
An average of 523Y.
Student scores for the test:
100
98
98
48 (.338 shooter who was permitted to shoot the long ones only)
88
96
85
76
90
I shot the drill along with the students with my .223 AR (what I shoot with mostly these days) and wound up with the 96. I was not surprised that the high shooting student was also the one whose data book had the most in it.
Thank you guys for coming out and shooting with us. If you wound up with any pictures, go ahead and post them in this thread. I have a vidya to upload myself. Any highlights you want to share, please do so.
I am hearing some pretty regular chin music now about us finally running the advanced class. I will post a separate poll on whether we should do that later in the season instead of the I/I.
--Fargo007
Here's a brief rundown of what we did.
Day 1 - Breakfast at 0800. Eggs different ways, ham, muffins, coffee, juice, etc. They would need it for the brain power expected from day 1.
Classroom instruction:
Intros, overview, weekend schedule. Optics, rifle fitment, shooting position work.
Ballistics, trajectory, range estimation instruction and exercises. Usage instruction and practice drills with the MDM (Mildot Master), wind indicators and reading, formulating and proving a dope card, recording data in the Impact Data books that were set up expressly for the course, and many other tricks we cover. Dry fire and position set up practice. BRM was the last thing covered before we went live.
Live Fire:
Zeroing. This went remarkably well with all the shooters delivering good, small groups at 100Y right where they were supposed to be. The
Walking out: We started taking the line out longer. Milling the targets with some guided assistance and cross checking. A shooter who hasn't shot past 100Y ever... I loved seeing the look on his face when they score a first round CM hit on a 530Y target and then hearing how he watched his bullet disintigrate against it.
Lunchtime: Roast beef w/gravy and mashed potatoes. Everyone had successfully ranged, hit, and documented targets out past or near 1000Y.
Students spent the afternoon recording good data on the 14 steel targets that were laid out between 300Y and 1052Y. Zero targets remained up, and students could come back and re-check easily if they got tangled up. Also did some reticle work with a holdover drill. Five targets from 300 to 575, 2 min. Most were crushing it without difficulty. We shot until 1800, then broke until the night shoot. The smart ones paid attention and re-checked their zeroes before packing up and heading out for chow.
2030 started the night shoot. We began with low light with a 425Y target and walked out to a fifth target at 530Y. The targets were all painted with a green laser designator so NV was not necessary. The final target was lit with black light flashlights that we staged pointing at it. It glowed like purple neon. There weren't a lot of misses. Again, a fantastic group. When a hit was scored, the entire line would cheer. "OPPAAAAH!!!"
The "official debriefing" was held after the night shoot concluded. We covered care/cleaning/maintenance at that time.
Day 2 - After an equally hearty country-style breakfast of french toast and a whole mess of bacon, it was time for the Cold bore. Students selected a target from the previous day to engage and properly record a CBS. We let them shoot at a new target prototype mounting design that Chet & Chris are working with. I loved it. It rang like a bell, and wiggled like a go go dancer, even with a .223. A review of some of the data books conducted during the debriefing resulted in some gigs (yes, we inspect them). Students re-engaged the targets and got good shots recorded.
We broke at 1100 to move all the targets and get ready for the final course exercise. Every one of the targets was relocated substantially. The students then had 20 minutes to range them all.
After a lunch of roasted chicken, it was time to put them to the test. Targets were called out in random order but we tackled the farthest one first, which was "Z," an IDPA target just shy of 800Y. Each shooter on the line had two rounds to engage the target with the first shot fired in :10, and a follow-up within :05.
Actual Target distances:
752Y Z
685 1
619 O
575 A
503 X
527 W
416 H
475 R
333 I
350 T
An average of 523Y.
Student scores for the test:
100
98
98
48 (.338 shooter who was permitted to shoot the long ones only)
88
96
85
76
90
I shot the drill along with the students with my .223 AR (what I shoot with mostly these days) and wound up with the 96. I was not surprised that the high shooting student was also the one whose data book had the most in it.
Thank you guys for coming out and shooting with us. If you wound up with any pictures, go ahead and post them in this thread. I have a vidya to upload myself. Any highlights you want to share, please do so.
I am hearing some pretty regular chin music now about us finally running the advanced class. I will post a separate poll on whether we should do that later in the season instead of the I/I.
--Fargo007
