OMG.......Speechless!!!!!
Where can I find a cool range like that! I have always wanted to stand in between the targets as guys shoot at them.......PLEASE!
This is a serious question and one much bigger than Yeager or Tactical Response.
Would you refuse to train with an instructor who did something stupid and had an ND? I wouldnt challenge you if you did. But it would rule out a lot of quality training. Travis Haley had one on video. Even Col Cooper had an ND in his office!
Ive never had an ND in over 30 years of shooting but in the same breath, id say that every time i handle a gun the potential is there and i need to handle it with that thought in mind. I do believe it can happen to anyone.
This is a serious question and one much bigger than Yeager or Tactical Response.
Would you refuse to train with an instructor who did something stupid and had an ND? I wouldnt challenge you if you did. But it would rule out a lot of quality training. Travis Haley had one on video. Even Col Cooper had an ND in his office!
Am I the only one that finds it not disturbing that Yeager js allowed to be a public voice for the gun culture in this country the man is an embarrassment.
Yeager's 2nd reason for dropping your gun in a training class is true, necessary and often over looked.
When the cops show up (other than with witty Gifs) drop the gun, it is not time to talk, don't re-holster, just drop it. It is unnatural to drop a gun without hesitation, that is why it should be practiced.
It depends. If you have an AD down range and don't endanger anyone, meh, that happens. Shoot long enough and you're going to accidentally send a bullet you didn't want to, and that could be from a revolver double tap, a mechanical failure letting a gun go full auto, or just getting on the trigger to early and sending one in the dirt instead of in the target. People are human and guns are machines, both can screw up. Doing something that needlessly endangers people and having an ND that results in property damage and does not result in personal injury due to the Grace of God and not due to your safety plan? Yes, you are off my list.
There is a difference between a mistake vs a lack of judgement and a training philosophy that encourages risk in drills where safer methods are well proven.
You just proved James Yeager right.
I support James Yeager.
Nope my post didn't prove whether JT is right or wrong. My post said I don't like his style. Your beliefs are what they are and what determines if he is right or not.
Maybe I can use the Dr Suess approach?
I would not train with him on any range, his tight tee shirt and go tee is kinda strange.
His training methods are not very sound, my fighting weapon doesn't get thrown to the ground.
I support safe firearms handling, adult thinking, and sound judgement.
He'd be more effective if he just put that AK on full auto and left his pistol in the holster, that way he would SEE all of what he was shooting at. It wouldnt be as "hollywood", shooting 2 guns but he would get to do a couple "fling-the-empty-mag" reloads.My latest training at Tactical Response. Thanks to printcraft for filming...
Kirk, any constructive criticism?
Maybe you should carry another gun then.
That's Yeager's point, if you're not willng to drop your gun on the ground during training then you will not do so when a dozen of cops show up and tell you to drop your gun NOW.And you will end up shot by the police.
If you don't want any scratch on your "fighting weapon" maybe you should keep it in nice foam box, in your safe.
Nope. Sometimes you gotta get a little reckless to make a point.Is there some room for INGO consensus that stepping on and spinning a loaded firearm outdoors, as something that is routine, is a bad idea?
I mean, is that too much to ask?
Are there not other ways to make the point without such recklessness?
Nope. Sometimes you gotta get a little reckless to make a point.
Kirkomir Beardsovich Freemanovski said:It isn't the odds, its the stakes.
Slowly lowering my gun to the ground by the grip should not get me shot.
Throwing/dropping a loaded/cocked gun to the ground might get someone shot.