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Elm Fork Wednesday Night Classes
Undercover Deployment
Tiger
Valley is offering an "Undercover Deployment" class on Wednesday, May
13 at Elm Fork. Starting at 6:30 PM, this class will be an
intensive trainng session on effectively deploying your daily carry
handgun. Bring your pistol, one hundred rounds of ammunition,
holster, magazine carrier, and safety gear. The
cost is $65 and pre-registration is not required.
Covert and Dynamic Entry
It’s
3:00am and you hear someone downstairs where your children are
sleeping. You grab your pistol and head in the direction to
investigate the noise. As you are moving you ask yourself if you
have the skill set for this action, even though you know you must
act. Tiger Valley will host an evening class on Covert and
Dynamic entry techniques. Why both techniques? It is
because an entry is only covert until the first chair is knocked
over or shot fired, then you are dynamic. The class will cover
both single and multiple person entry. Please bring your weapon
(pistol, carbine, or both), holster/sling and flashlight. You will
not need any ammunition for this class. Cost is $65,
pre-registration is not required, and the class will run on May 27th.
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Negligent Discharges
by T.J. Pilling
Tiger
Valley just finished a hard month of events. The month started
out with a Class III shoot with over 100 people on site. The
following week we did the NRA, Law Enforcement regional 3-gun
match. The month was capped with the Larue National 3-gun match.
Those
who saw me on site could attest to the fact that I didn’t see too much
of any of the three events. I was the guy running around like an
idiot trying to make sure everything was flowing as necessary.
When I did slow down, I saw some things that caused me some
concern. The biggest issue I had concerns with was moving with
fingers on the triggers and not re-engaging safeties. The RO’s
were doing a great job keeping shooters safe, but they can’t see
everything from every angle. If they had seen these mistakes they
would have remedied the situation as they were observed.
There
seems to be this illusion that you need to have your finger on the
trigger to be fast. Along with this problem there seem so be the
idea that not having your finger on the trigger negates the need to use
the safety. It doesn’t help that movies like Black Hawk Down
reinforce unsafe practices with Holly Wood glitz. “Soldier, your
weapons off safe”, with trigger finger waving in the air, "Sir this is
my safety", only helps contribute to the environment of pushing the
envelope.
Those
who have been around me for any length of time
have heard my stories about negligent discharges, both recent and
past. If you are one of those you can skip past this part, but
they are sound reasons to follow basic safety tenants. The first
negligent discharge that I observed was when I was a rookie
officer. I was so new to the department that they didn’t trust me
driving the squad car. We were dispatched to assist a local
agency serving a drug warrant. When my field training officer and
I arrived at the location we observed a drunk, belligerent suspect with
beer in one hand and cigarette in the other standing in his front
yard. One of our Officers went up to the suspect and spun him to
the back of a station wagon parked in the driveway. A .44 magnum
was forced into his ribs as he was told not to move. Being a
sociopath, as well as a drunk, with more arrest and contacts with Law
Enforcement then you could count, he quipped, “you can’t shoot me, it’s
a misdemeanor warrant”, at which time he pushed off the vehicle.
When he pushed off he stepped on the Officers toes. The officer
started to fall backwards and clenched his hand that was on the suspect
shoulder. What one hand does under stress the other hand will do
involuntarily. The .44 discharged striking the suspect in the
short ribs and exited his clavicle, blowing ribs and lung all over the
roof. That incident was 30 years ago and I remember it like it
was yesterday.
The next incident happened at the Tiger Valley
facility in Waco. John Tillman was teaching a carbine class and
as was at the point of working on Transition drills. The shooter
in question was “all tactical”; he had every piece of equipment that
money could buy. The shooter fired his first shot and mover to
sling the weapon and draw his pistol. With weapon on sling and
hands off and moving to the pistol draw, his weapon started bump firing
off his high-speed gear. Luckily, he had a single point sling and
the weapon was discharging between his feet. Tillman later
related that it looked like he was doing the Irish jig, trying to dance
as the rounds impacted in the mud between his feet.
Bottom line,
the trigger doesn’t care what engages it. If it is 6 pounds, or
whatever weights the trigger requires to fire, be it finger, branch,
knife the weapon will go bang. Having poor weapon handling
practice of having your finger on the trigger only compounds the
issues for safe weapon handling. You won’t be faster, but what
you might be is trying to explain how you shot yourself or someone else
on the range. Please practice sound training and if you see
someone else with poor habits, bring it to their attention.
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 | CQB Carbine Class
On
May 16th and 17th Tiger Valley is offering a "CQB Carbine" class at our
Waco facility. The class will conducted entirely with .22LR
variants of the AR-15, either conversion kits or dedicated upper
receivers. We have a number of units available as loners on a
first reserved basis at no charge. Bring 1,000 rounds of .22 LR.
The emphasis of the class
will be utilization of the AR-15 in CQB environments, with an emphasis
on drills that are not possible at normal shooting ranges. Firing
on the move and clearing the live-fire shoothouse are just a few of
the exciting training opportunities during this class. The
bunkhouse is open for those interested in staying on site for twenty
dollars per night. Call or email if you have any questions and we look forward to seeing you at the range!
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Tactical Team Match Update & Deadline
Tiger
Valley's 4-man Tactical Team match is running on June 27 and 28.
Payment must be received for all team members by June 13th so we
can staff and equip the event properly. Payment can be provided
either via our online store or mailing a check to our office address.
The
team match will take place across nine stages in a scenario of the
aftermath of a terrorist nuclear attack and the corresponding chaos.
Further details of the match, including stage descriptions can be
found here.
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