SinistralRifleman
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This is the mindset we should be teaching kids, RESIST!
Looks very effective...watch all the things going on. Teacher tells other students to flee, wounded student is treated by another student taking off his shirt used as a bandage.
and yes, if we're in an enclosed space I have scissors and you have a gun...21 feet or less there's a excellent chance I will be able to kill you. Mindset, Tactics, Skill, and Gear are important to winning the fight in that order. 80% of people shot with handguns live thanks to modern medicine...those odds sure beat getting executed shot in the back of the head.
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Looks like he took down the videos...
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So this idiot posts videos on youtube of shooting the power line poles on Table Mesa Road in Maricopa County here in AZ...
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=em0ney
More goonery:
you can bet they didn't clean any of that trash up.
The guy who found the videos has already contacted MCSO and BLM.
No wonder so much public land is getting closed to shooting.
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..I like the slow mag changes...
You can speed up mag changes quite a a bit by using the fresh mag to hit the mag catch and knock out the empty partial by agressively sweeping forward with it. Then rotate the mag and rock it in. Worth a try if you haven't done it yet.
nice pic BTW
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I think I've already dumped too much money into my Saiga until some new manufactured 10 round magazines become available.
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Well the scope was made to be used on SAWs, maybe the further settings were meant for area fire?
AFAIK Leupold hasn't done anything else with it right now, I don't think it is available through the custom shop.
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I've tried one recently, until high caps are readily available you'll be at a disadvantage against tube feds on courses of fire less than 20+ rounds. And you will definitely be at a disadvantage against someone using an open tube fed gun with speed loaders if you don't have 10 round magazines.
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I wouldn't use the spec ops stock....the recoil absorbing feature makes it harder to run the gun as fast as you can. You should be working the pump as soon as you pull the trigger, with the gun recoiling back into the stock you're fighting to catch up with the gun as it's accelerating rearward.
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I have one, it works well:
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I made the offer to let them use one of our full-auto .45 ACP CAV-16s as a pick up gun on a stage if they get the ammo for it. I hope they go for it
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Pics and vid from the big subgun match last weekend
Gallery... http://www.cavalryarms.com/subgun/AZSG-200...6-subgun-1.html
Video musical selection inspired by all the required hip shooting...
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cool action pic, and nice timing on the camera.
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Music video I made with the footage:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...eoid=1242279946
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Good work guys.
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This past weekend we attended the Tactical Response Alumni weekend. For those of you who don't know what Tactical Response is, it is a training organization that teaches a variety of classes on armed and unarmed combat, medical, driving, and security to citizens, law enforcement, and military. I have taken over a dozen courses from them at this point and it is high quality instruction at reasonable prices.
The alumni weekend is a free annual training event for people who have taken at least one class from them. The alumni weekend features a sampling of classes including lectures and range time. Tactical Response staff invited us to run a competition event at this year's match and we were happy to participate. The theme for this year's Alumni weekend was "Disaster Preparedness", and I designed the stage accordingly.
Most of the people who shot the match had little or no competition experience prior to shooting in this one. However, everyone had attended at least one (usually more) class from Tactical Response. With that in mind this group did better compared to other new competitive shooters. When people had problems, no one stopped and just quit as I have seen elsewhere before…even shooters who had a hard time fought through to the end. Everyone was competant in their gun handling and safe. Incorporating medical and communication aspects made it much more interesting and relevant to the theme of the Alumni weekend. Allowing shooting through props like the shot up cars is something we normally can’t do. We also didn’t use a 180 degree rule, which I believe added to the realism…everyone still practiced safe firearms handling, moving with their guns in Sul or high ready.
There were some things I wanted people to learn/be exposed to through this competition that they probably hadn’t had elsewhere before.
1) Rifles/Carbines are effective to several hundred yards. Learn to shoot your firearms to their maximum potential. The longer the shot the more important taking the most supported position available becomes.
2) The stress of competition, trying to do your best with everyone else watching and every second counting will make you perform differently than you will practicing on your own. There were quite a few people I witnessed that got a good adrenaline dump and were visibly shaking by the end of the course. The more you compete the more inoculated to this sort of stress you will become.
3) Don’t get fixated on accomplishing one goal you’ve done your best and can’t, when there are still a lot of things to be done.
4) Think outside the box and stay alert. Shooting competitively, like a gun fight, is a thinking man’s game.
5) Having equipment problems at a match, as much as it sucks and may hurt your ego, sucks a lot less than having it happen in a real fight. Use competition to find equipment flaws and correct them.
6) Mindset, Tactics, and Skill are all more important than gear. Gear becomes important when all those other factors are equal.
7) A low power scope, like the CQT everyone got to use, is a force modifier when you need to shoot at distance.
course description
“Rush Hour Riot”Scenerio: Several terrorist attacks have occurred simultaneously in your city, disrupting, water, power, and communications. You are attempting to return home to “bug-in” and rely on your stockpiled water and food for the next several days. The criminal elements of your city are taking advantage of the chaos, looting, robbing, carjacking etc. You are stuck in traffic as a roaming gang begins pulling people from their vehicles and assaulting them. You watch a single police officer tries to engage the hostiles, but he is apparently hit by rifle fire coming from further up the road. The time to act is now.
Firearms: Pistol and Rifle
Pistol Targets: 2 MGM Triple Droppers, 4 Paper
Rifle Targets: 3 MGM Steel flash targets (to be engaged 3 times each), 12 paper
Start Position: Shooter seated in car, hands on steering wheel, right foot on *thumb rest [generic]*. Pistol holstered and hot, rifle will have magazine inserted and cold chamber cased in trunk. All magazines for the rifle will be stored in the trunk of the car. Optical sights must have covers closed if they have them, electronic sights must be off.
Course Description:
At start signal, shooter will begin engaging Triple Droppers 1-2 and T-1 to T-4 from inside or outside the vehicle, as they become visible.
Shooter will holster handgun and retrieve rifle and magazine from the trunk.
Shooter will engage targets T5-T8 around Car 2 from start vehicle, then advance to Car 2.
Shooter will then engage Rifle steel 1-3 with one hit each, then engage T9 to T12 around Car 3 from Car 2, then advance to Car 3.
Shooter will then engage Rifle steel 1-3 with one hit each, then engage T13 to T16 from Car 3 and advance to Car 4. Using smoke grenade to conceal movement from car 3 to 4 is a 15 second bonus.
At Car 4 shooter will then engage Rifle steel 1-3 with one hit each. At Car 4 there will be a dummy simulating a wounded police officer, he has been shot in the arm. There will be a 15 second bonus for bandaging the officer’s arm. There will be a 15 second bonus for using his radio to call in what is happening and asking for assistance.
The shooter will then use the officers’ rifle to engage the steel targets in 1-2-3-1-2 order for 15 second bonus per target hit
Full Gallery:
http://www.cavalryarms.com/2006-TR-ALUMNI/...R-ALUMNI-1.html
http://www.cavalryarms.com/2006-TR-ALUMNI/th_057.jpgclick here for big version
http://www.cavalryarms.com/2006-TR-ALUMNI/th_077.jpg
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http://www.cavalryarms.com/2006-TR-ALUMNI/th_122.jpg
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When we were done shooting individually, we were able to run the stage as teams:
http://www.cavalryarms.com/2006-TR-ALUMNI/th_373.jpg
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http://www.cavalryarms.com/2006-TR-ALUMNI/th_382.jpg
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Results:
http://www.cavalryarms.com/2006-TR-ALUMNI/results.jpg
There were a few individuals who particularly impressed me with the way they shot the course/solved problems:
Klaus is one hardcore dude…no one shot the course as aggressively or with as much determination as he did. He borrowed one of my rifles and test fired 15 rounds through it before shooting the course. Prior to that he had no trigger time with a scoped rifle, and little trigger time with other rifles. Klaus placed 6th out of 44, beating almost everyone who was using equipment they were more familiar with and who had a lot more rounds down range. Klaus has the right mindset the will to prevail and use the tools available to him.
Kyle Hale used his Beretta CX4 storm 9mm carbine. Prior to shooting the course I asked him if he wanted to use one of my rifles because the long range targets may be difficult to hit with the 9mm. He declined, stating he wanted to practice with what his real trunk gun was. From the first position he hit long target 1, second position long targets 1 and 2, and the final position long targets 1-3. With a 9mm carbine he out shot the majority of the shooters who were using real rifles. Skill beats gear.
Titan Scout made most of the required hits on the long steel with his carbine from the first 2 positions, but it was taking more time/shots than he wanted. At the Third position he said “hey buddy you have a better rifle than me”, took the officer’s rifle and removed the magazine inserting his own and used it to engage the 3 mandatory long range targets from that position successfully and more rapidly. I never told anyone they couldn’t do this, so it was fair game. By far the best thinking outside the box I saw at the competition. This was a great demonstration of mindset and tactics.
Bailey Martin was the last shooter we had on Saturday due to the rain. It started coming down hard in the middle of the stage. Bailey kept at it though and came close to finishing the stage, except for the last bonus targets. I told him to stop on the bonus targets because I simply couldn’t see the hits with the rain coming down. For his will to continue the fight in extremely adverse conditions, I gave him the bonuses for the long targets anyway.
I am looking forward to running another competition at the Alumni weekend next year. The Tactical Response Range facilities are excellent for the purpose, and I know they will be willing to do whatever we throw at them.
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I use and reccomend the Safariland 6000 series...never heard of any problems reported with them. I timed one of my friends from draw to round on target with his 6004 vs a CR speed holster he has and the time difference was consistently 0.10 to 0.20 seconds...not enough to make or break your match for 3 Gun for most shooters. The 6000 series is secure and fast.
I have some friends who use the Serpa and it seems to work fine for them, but there have been problems reported with them including debris getting into the locking mechanism preventing the pistol from being drawn.
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Well I used it at the local match today...both shotgun stages were only 11 and 12 rounds. So with 5 round mags it was a disadvantage. One of the stages less so because there was more movement I could change mags during.
Video: http://www.cavalryarms.com/vids/saiga-1.wmv
Good news though, the gun continues to run and it's fun to shoot.
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The International Jihadist Shooting Association, coming soon to a shopping mall, movie theatre, or coffee shop near you!
Dates and Times to be announced...all stages will be a suprise!
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Sounds fun...I'll plan on being there with my Saiga-12 as long as it keeps chugging along.
Sponsorship info?
We have some cut down single shot 12 gauge break actions left over from an police evidence gun auction if anyone wants to shoot "gangsta' style"
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There's a local guy that claims to have flown Apache attack helicopters in Gulf War 1...looking at his driver's license once when he was buying a gun, he would have been 17-18 in Gulf War 1. He would have been lucky to have been even working on them as some sort of tech at that age. This guy also claims to fly "hueys" that carry 20 people, not counting "bombs"
There are several assorted goons that claim to do assasin style tasks for various local law enforcement agencies. I certainly hope no such thing really happens and if it does they wouldn't hire such cretins that brag about it to do it LOL.
Some how we manage to encounter these people and we don't even do retail on a regular basis.
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Did some timed reloads with mags off the table today (working on making a better vest to carry all these things).
Lock the bolt open, remove empty mag, load fresh mag, rack bolt, shot to shot was 5-6 seconds. Most of the time around 5.5 seconds.
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Mine has a manual last round bolt hold open device. Being left handed, it's easy for me to rack the bolt back and activate it at the same time. With the bolt locked open I can much more consistently gets the magazines seated...so I am considering doing this as part of my reload procedure every time.
Waiting for the 10 rounders myself...all I have right now are 5s.
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I just wanted to post an update regarding the Saiga problems I was having discussed here: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=34390
If you don't care to read it, basically the first Saiga I had was a lemon from the factory...constant problems with shaving plastic and lead into the gas system.
Tromix replaced this gun for me for free this past week, even though it wasn't their fault, with a brand new 19" barrelled model that had the correct gas port configuration.
I just took it out today and fired 60 rounds as fast as I could change magazines. no malfunctions with a wide variety of ammo (mixxed up in the mags even too). Loaded up the magazines again and fired another 60 rounds as fast as I could change mags. No malfunctions at all, though the gun was too hot to hold by the end.
I took apart the gas system to make sure there was no fouling, and there was indeed none.
Tromix is a stand up company, and I wouldn't hesitate to do business with them again.
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Thank you to all those who supported us...we will be helping with more events in the future.
Since the Cavalry Arms match isn't happening, we will be going to the Tactical Response, Inc. Alumni weekend event Sept. 23-24 in Camden, TN. I'm going to help run a competition event there...part of it will be a two man team event, the likes of which has probably never been seen before. I'll be sure to post videos.
Texas!
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Posted · Edited by SinistralRifleman
Watch the video again, the teacher helped take down the bad guy too...the only reason this works is because the shooter is overwhelmed with bodies holding them down. One teacher that may be smaller than the shooter isn't going to do the job.
edit: this is something parents need to address with their children individually...on another forum where we discussed this topic at length, many parents including law enforcement officers said they've told their children to run away as fast as they can if something is really going down, and not to hide in the class rooms per standard school lock down procedures.
Unfortunately, it is probably only a matter of time until there is a Beslan incident in the United States. Most of the children who survived, ran away during the initial assault and were never taken hostage.