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| The start of the day |
I recently attended a benefit for Wishes for Warriors, an organization that helps wounded veterans do many of the things we enjoy: fishing trips, a day with friends, acceptance in society. Their stated goal, “Many return from war, mentally or physically disabled only to be judged by society. Wishes For Warriors is here to change that.”
I don’t know how much money was made. I’m sure it wasn’t enough but we can all do a little bit ourselves. Next time you meet a veteran, remember they have baggage I can’t begin to understand, so cut them a little slack.
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| We moved the benches down from the rifle range reday line to control safety |
The range had shooting stations
set up on two pistol ranges and the rifle range. Those attending had a chance to do a little
shooting. The club also offered two 1-hour
long training sessions with Adam Litke.
The first hour was pistol and after lunch and drawing of riffle prizes,
Adam ran a rifle course.
Well, there isn’t much you can do
in an hour, but…
Adam ran essentially a figure 8
drill. The concept is simple: you walk a
figure eight pattern looping around two cones.
Five 3/8 size steel targets were set up approximately 10 yards away with
a number painted on the steel plate. In
response to the verbal command, you turn, find the target with the matching number and engage it with as
many rounds you think are required.
Simple.
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| Shooter engages steel. Part of the drill was muzzle awareness. |
Well, it sounds simple until the
number 2 target becomes the “2 times 3 minus 4” target. Of course there could be two number 2 targets
and no 1 or 5. Add different color paint
and 2-red, square root of 9 and half 10 become especially interesting.
A similar activity was scheduled
for the hour of rifle. The pistol grade steel targets were swapped out for all
purpose cardboard IDPA targets. With the
bigger targets, more numbers could be placed on each target.
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| shooter engages target square root four plus 2 |
The goal is to simulate the chaos
of an armed interaction.
Huh? What does that have to do with the square
root of 16?
It’s about decision making under
pressure. Think about what can happen: the environment gets your attention because
something non-ordinary happens. Your
response is: “I may need a weapon.”
After you verify a weapon is
required, and there is an imminent threat present, and your only/best response
is to draw and engage that threat, you must draw and engage. During that entire period everything in the environment
is changing because of the shooter.
Disorder and confusion will be the order of the day.
Don’t let this be the first time
your mental processes grind to a halt and need to be rebooted. The more you experience this, the easier the
reboot will be.
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