Survival and Emergency Preparedness

My P365XL isn't carry-ready yet. I have a holster on the way as well as the MS parts. After that all arrives I would like to take it to an Outlaw match to run it through it's paces. I did really well with the standard P365 so I would expect the XL would be as good if not better. And I may try wearing my glasses as well to see how it does. Or maybe not since I don't normally wear them outside the car very much.

There is also a CCW combat course at the end of May that's only around 60 rounds so I might see about going to that as well.

And though it isn't as readily pressing as testing out the XL, I'd like to get back out there with the G45 and put more rounds through it since I've been carrying it quite a bit.

I went ahead and ordered a laser training cartridge in 40S&W since I have four pistols in that caliber. Three of them are either DA/SA or DAO. So I should be able to get a lot of use out of the cartridge.

Like the one above, apparently there are several apps that can be downloaded to your phone to show and maybe track progress.

I got the laser trainer in for the 40S&W pistols. Seems like it's just a smidge off to the right but I haven't tried to move it around in the chamber at all yet. Testing it in the P250. I'll have to compare it to the P2000 and USPc to see if there is any difference. I've downloaded a couple of different target apps, G-Sight and iTarget. They have free versions as well as paid upgrades. Playing around with the free versions right now and will see what kind of other apps are available.

Not bad, they give you immediate feed back. One has a metallic sound when you hit like shooting steel, the other a steel sound or gun shot. The iTarget tracks your scores over time which is a nice feature.

I need to get a silhouette target to place around the house.

Ronin.45 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:58 pm Competition is the single best way to hone your skills.
Locally the competition can vary greatly. Sometimes I have a guy or two pushing or beating me. Sometimes I am so far ahead it's almost a waste of ammo. That's where set standards are nice.

Agree, when that timer goes off you can feel your hart begin to pound. I've seen some very impressive shooting. One guy was a cop and using his 5 round 38 snub nose and he could get it out and put 5 rounds on target in a blur of motion.

Our local club ran the OPOTA rifle qualification last night. That the Ohio police carbine qualifier.
Having been around police handgun qualifying for years, I knew it was going to be easy, but it was funny hearing everyone else realize how easy it really is.
Typical generous par times and big scoring areas. It goes from 5 to 50 yards. It's only 20rds and YOU CAN COMPLETELY MISS 4 OF THEM!.
We used our typical IDPA target to make it a little harder and I cut the par times in half except for the one string that was already 1.5sec. I shot it clean in the zero ring. Most shot it clean in the -1 area which is well within the OPOTA target. Our worst, slowest shooter would have easily qualified.
The first string gives a good indication of how easy it is. With your carbine at low ready, you have 4 seconds to put 3 shots basically anywhere on the torso. That is an eternity. After we were done I said I thought I could do it under 1sec and had some skeptics. I ran it again for time and got 3 zero hits in .73sec. Obviously, super fast is not the point of this qual, but if they on!y train to such slow level, they will struggle in real situations. This is why we see such abysmal results so often in real police shootings.

if they on!y train to such slow level, they will struggle in real situations." So true.

You go to the range and shoot the annual police course in a fully lit indoor range. You pass. Fine.

So, you think and understand that you may be walking and shooting in dim light at night or in a building in the real world some day. Do you want to practice this on the indoor range before you deal the real world.

Turn off the light in your lane. There will be ambient light from other lanes. Push the target out to whether you can barely differentiate between the target and the light. Stand on one foot. You are mimicking the real world, walking in bad light.

If you fall down, you are shooting wrong. You figure out how to shoot center mass under those conditions. I am not going to tell you. It can be done easily. Now you shoot. If all the hits are center mass, you are not dealing with the real world. If the hits are in a vertical line from center mass to the ground, you are shooting reality of a person falling. He isn't going to stand there like a paper target.

if they on!y train to passing the annual police test, they will struggle in real situations.