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Still kind of gimping around but able to walk just not do anything dynamic yet.
Working with the boy today on the range. Refreshed transition from rifle to pistol drills.
Worked from on a tactical sling and loose, principally focusing on the swipe away method on sling and the tuck and move un-slung.
He enjoys a slight competition and I had already put a battery in the shot timer. He's getting into that teenage stage wherein he's "competing" with Dad on stuff but rarely coming up ahead unless it's stuff like Plane Geometry Honors class (his current math class). I have little use for higher maths like that and tease him that I "did that crap in the third grade" LOL. In reality I have no idea WTH they are talking about when I sit in on classes!!! LOL He knows that but humors the old man. :)
So he was in MY realm today, not the realm of a mathlete :) He might be an up and coming athlete on certain combative sports, but Dad is still ahead ;)
We used the shot timer on a rifle to pistol transition drill- there was two rounds in each rifle mags and you had to shoot till it clicked so as to not "game it." Upon hearing the click being that we were at short range (20 yards), you had to transition to pistol and make 2 good pistol shots also.
He did pretty well, averaging a little over 4 seconds on a couple rotations, with one rotation in the high 3 second range. His "old" man was consistently under 3 seconds however, with slightly better hits.
We were shooting IDPA silhouettes today and I set up the classic "hostage" target with only the head showing on the "bad guy." We worked that sort of drill a couple times including some work on visualization. It helped him slow down his rate of fire, he gets good hits when shooting fast, but not accurate enough for that type of shooting. After some correction, he went to hitting 95% head shots in a short period of time. He's stubborn, gets that from HIS MOM and all ;) but he also knows pops knows his crap and to improve listen to Pops, so that's good. I find myself shooting less and teaching more lately, but the ammo bill seems to be about the same...... But it's an investment.
Worked a lot of left handed stuff today also. I explained to him that few shooters truly develop ambidextrous skills. He hadn't done that in a while so it was kind of new in that regard. The AK actually handles very easily left handed, but you have to develop some skill as for more people your left hand side is "dumb" compared to follow through, trigger squeeze etc. that's developed on the rifle hand side. So I loaded mags with 8, 7, 10, whatever so he had to work more mag changes via the left side and wouldn't "game" any of the drills we were working on.
We must have had some crazy flooding at the range. A 30+ lb. tote with range supplies was displaced almost 300 yards from it's original location with all sorts of targets and a couple of plastic culverts that were not yet installed. How the heck the 30+ lb. tote floated that far is beyond me, but I'm glad we found it.
Working with the boy today on the range. Refreshed transition from rifle to pistol drills.
Worked from on a tactical sling and loose, principally focusing on the swipe away method on sling and the tuck and move un-slung.
He enjoys a slight competition and I had already put a battery in the shot timer. He's getting into that teenage stage wherein he's "competing" with Dad on stuff but rarely coming up ahead unless it's stuff like Plane Geometry Honors class (his current math class). I have little use for higher maths like that and tease him that I "did that crap in the third grade" LOL. In reality I have no idea WTH they are talking about when I sit in on classes!!! LOL He knows that but humors the old man. :)
So he was in MY realm today, not the realm of a mathlete :) He might be an up and coming athlete on certain combative sports, but Dad is still ahead ;)
We used the shot timer on a rifle to pistol transition drill- there was two rounds in each rifle mags and you had to shoot till it clicked so as to not "game it." Upon hearing the click being that we were at short range (20 yards), you had to transition to pistol and make 2 good pistol shots also.
He did pretty well, averaging a little over 4 seconds on a couple rotations, with one rotation in the high 3 second range. His "old" man was consistently under 3 seconds however, with slightly better hits.
We were shooting IDPA silhouettes today and I set up the classic "hostage" target with only the head showing on the "bad guy." We worked that sort of drill a couple times including some work on visualization. It helped him slow down his rate of fire, he gets good hits when shooting fast, but not accurate enough for that type of shooting. After some correction, he went to hitting 95% head shots in a short period of time. He's stubborn, gets that from HIS MOM and all ;) but he also knows pops knows his crap and to improve listen to Pops, so that's good. I find myself shooting less and teaching more lately, but the ammo bill seems to be about the same...... But it's an investment.
Worked a lot of left handed stuff today also. I explained to him that few shooters truly develop ambidextrous skills. He hadn't done that in a while so it was kind of new in that regard. The AK actually handles very easily left handed, but you have to develop some skill as for more people your left hand side is "dumb" compared to follow through, trigger squeeze etc. that's developed on the rifle hand side. So I loaded mags with 8, 7, 10, whatever so he had to work more mag changes via the left side and wouldn't "game" any of the drills we were working on.
We must have had some crazy flooding at the range. A 30+ lb. tote with range supplies was displaced almost 300 yards from it's original location with all sorts of targets and a couple of plastic culverts that were not yet installed. How the heck the 30+ lb. tote floated that far is beyond me, but I'm glad we found it.
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