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AAR: Performance On Demand 2 Day Pistol / Carbine class Sept 18th & 19th, 2015
This is my first After Action Report: I would love to hear what else I should have included and what you really didn't need to hear in this report.
I used Dustyvarmint's AARs as a template to work off of and then modified to fit my own needs.
Provider: Performance On Demand Shooting
Owner: Adrian, Mike, Pete
Phone / Web: 608-512-8061 / http://www.podshooting.com/
E-mail: info@podshooting.com
Dates: September 18 / 19, 2015
Location: LE training range, Janesville, WI
Course Description from the POD website:
"Two-Day Pistol and Rifle for Law Enforcement
September 18-19, 2015
Janesville, WI
$225 – LEO/MIL Only
This course combines skills and drills from our Carbine 1 and Pistol 1, at an accelerated pace, designed specifically for the law enforcement officer. We will cover the material in each course, honing the fundamental skills of marksmanship and gun handling required to efficiently and effectively run both platforms in an encounter on the street.
On day two, students will practice these skills in dynamic drills that incorporate transitioning between both platforms – moving, shooting from cover and communicating. The range provides shooting up to 300 yards, and we intend to push the distance back with the carbine to provide officers instruction and experience shooting at extended ranges. Upon completion, students will receive a course certificate for both Pistol 1 and Carbine 1, completing the pre-requisites to take our advanced level shooting courses.
We have not offered these courses together before in a combined fashion. This is a unique opportunity to practice not only the skills covered in our Carbine 1 and Pistol 1 courses, but to gain additional instruction through running the two systems together and at extended ranges.
Topics covered during Two-Day Pistol and Rifle for law enforcement:
PISTOL
-Fundamentals of pistol marksmanship
-Improving the efficiency of the draw-stroke
-Improving the speed and efficiency of the reload
-Shot cadence, timing, improving speed
-Fixing malfunctions
-Long range pistol shooting (out to 100 yards)
-How to dry-fire & train at home
CARBINE
-Fundamentals of basic rifle marksmanship
-External ballistics and zeroing
-Shooting beyond 100 yards
-Increasing the efficiency of carbine manipulations
-Shooting positions
-Barricade positions
-Multiple targets and close quarter engagements
-Moving and communication
-Deployment considerations and rifle setup
-Typical malfunctions
-Transitions between carbine and pistol
Requirements: Semi-automatic carbine with tactical sling, minimum three magazines, mag pouch or carrier. Duty handgun with minimum three magazines, sturdy belt, holster and mag pouches. Appropriate range / duty gear. 350 rounds rifle, 350 rounds pistol."
Gear used:
Pistol portion of the class I ran a Glock 34, Comp-Tac Kydex paddle holster, and magazine pouches, Wilderness Tactical instructor belt, factory Glock magazines, and Federal Aluminum cased 115 grain ammo.
Rifle portion of the class I ran a Sig M400 hanging from a Blue Force Gear Vickers sling with Magpul Gen 3 Pmags in ITW FastMag pouches mounted on the Wilderness belt. I shot PerFecta, brass cased, 55 grain ammo which is distributed by Tulammo. It's Italian ammo thought to be manufactured by Fiocchi.
Personal experience: Number of firearms related training classes attended: As a student 6. I've been an NRA Basic Pistol instructor since 1996 and teach the Wisconsin Concealed Carry Classes for my local gun store since 2011. I do live fire classes for those students as well. I don't teach SWAT team members, I teach first time shooters to not put a hole in themselves. I've been a USPSA RO and an IDPA SO.
Safety: Good review of the safety rules. Everyone gets different things out of the same class. As a guy who teaches safety type classes, I really liked the review of the 4 safety rules. I always teach, per curriculum, rule number one is "treat every gun as if it is loaded" and "don't do anything with an unloaded gun, that you wouldn't do with a loaded gun" then later talk about dry firing. Since 1996 I've only had one student challenge me on the inconsistency there. POD brought up something that I like much better: "Know the status of your firearm at all times" . They gave credit for this rule to Pat McNamara. I will use this in my next class.
Food: Brats and hamburgers on the grill were provided by the training facility host with chips and soda and they were much appreciated.
Instructors’ Competence: Mike and Pete both have a professional, effective way of presenting the material and they could demonstrate the techniques in a very effective way. The personal feedback and ability to guide each student independently was superb. They were able to bounce off of each other's comments in a smooth concise way that worked well for the class.
In my limited experience I find that there are good teaches who can't shoot and there are good shooters who can't teach. I found the balance between being an effective teacher and shooter very well represented by POD.
Course Certificate issued: Yes
Class length: 16 hours
Instructor to student ratio: 2/10
It was marketed toward LE and Responsible Law Abiding Citizens. LE to citizen ratio was 7/3.
Total Round count: 461
Round count Pistol: 236
Rounds count Rifle: 225
Would you recommended: Yes
General comments: This was POD Performance On Demand's first two day class. As we ran the drills, the drills themselves were explained well but more importantly the reason behind the drill and what skill it would assess was explained.
As we were shooting and after the shooting, each student was given feedback. I found the ability of the instructors to recognize what each student was doing and providing specific feedback was exceptional. I won't go into the specific drills that we ran.
This was my second class with POD this year. I plan on training with them again.
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I was one of the hosts for this class. Unfortunately, another work commitment prevented me from being there on day 1.
There is a significant problem in LE firearms training in that mid level shooters are not being given any tools to improve their skills and are left to stagnate in the realm of passing quals but never really excelling. Myself and another officer have trained with the POD guys before and knew that they are doing good work to address that shortfall. This was our motivation for hosting the class.
I did get to hang out on day two and even shot some of the group drills. It was fun to drop into the middle of a class, cold and preform in front of a bunch of people who I didn't know.
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Here is a slow mo video of our newest SWAT member shooting a recoil control drill. I wish I had taken a video before Pete made some corrections to his stance and grip because you would see significant improvement.
https://vimeo.com/140817233
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This was my first time hosting a class and learned a lot about that end of things. I was glad we were able to provide lunch as I think it enhances the training experience to be able to stay on site.
This class was advertised as mil/LE only but we ended up putting some vetted citizens in the class. We are working on making open enrollment the standard in the future this was just the easiest way for us to dip our toes in that realm and convince those who need convincing.
For any of the citizens(or cops) in the class, it would be helpful if you dropped a thank you to my Chief as this would make classes easier for me to host in the future. He really likes catch phrases like "positive police/citizen contacts" and "building relationships". The more PC it sounds the better. Chief Moore's email: moored@ci.janesville.wi.us
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