{"id":9452,"date":"2015-03-22T15:57:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T19:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=9452"},"modified":"2015-03-22T15:57:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T19:57:52","slug":"larry-vickers-recreates-collateral-shooting-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=9452","title":{"rendered":"Larry Vickers Recreates Collateral Shooting Techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fEZeb5lKPkk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As a profession, law enforcement sometimes fails to teach practical shooting drills in favor of square range target practice. \u00a0Yes, I know, Collateral was a just movie. \u00a0But the essence of the action here is a Controlled Pair from the holster on suspect one, followed by a Failure Drill, a.k.a. the Mozambique Drill, to suspect two. \u00a0If you have not depressed a trigger on either of these techniques thus far in 2015, you are not keeping your shooting skills honed.<\/p>\n<p>I was with a small group of sergeants who had rifle qualifications a few weeks ago. \u00a0Our instructor for the evolution is a reserve Tier One soldier with combat tours overseas. \u00a0He is also one of our administrative supervisors. \u00a0I enjoy his sessions because he is serious about providing excellent training that can save your life.\u00a0 He has seen the elephant.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the actual AR-15 qual, we practiced Controlled Pairs and Failure Drills with our rifles and in transitions with our handguns. \u00a0We made many trips &#8220;on-the-hop&#8221; from the line back to the ammo table to re-up our mags. \u00a0A little stress can be introduced by keeping the tempo brisk while demanding accuracy and safe weapons handling. \u00a0It is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>In checking the blue B-21-E targets of my peers, I was pleased that we were all shooting well. \u00a0While some of us had much experience, a few had just a little, but by hammering away at the basics, the instructor made it a worthwhile day at the range for all.<\/p>\n<p>At the conclusion of the training, we had a debriefing and then the instructor had us load up our magazines with fresh duty ammunition and put in new batteries for our weapon-mounted lights.<\/p>\n<p>While I was not a big fan of the movie and I am so-so on LAV&#8217;s delivery, I do feel that he gave a good walk-through of the scene that has some illustrative value. \u00a0I have griped that, by and large, police agencies fail to train their officers as &#8220;gunfighters,&#8221; but the time to acquire these technical skills is not during a critical incident out on the street.<\/p>\n<p>Randall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a profession, law enforcement sometimes fails to teach practical shooting drills in favor of square range target practice. \u00a0Yes, I know, Collateral was a just movie. \u00a0But the essence of the action here is a Controlled Pair from the holster on suspect one, followed by a Failure Drill, a.k.a. the Mozambique Drill, to suspect two. \u00a0If you have not depressed a trigger on either of these techniques thus far in 2015, you are not keeping your shooting skills honed. 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