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Elm Fork Tuesday Night Classes
Low Light Pistol
On October 13 Tiger Valley is offering an
opportunity to learn and practice skills in utilizing your pistol when
ambient light is low or nonexistent.
Bring either a hand held or
weapons mounted light, along with your pistol, holster, safety gear,
and 200 rounds of ammunition. The cost is $65.
Pre-registration is not required; just arrive by 6:30 PM at Elm
Fork, with the class running until 9 PM.
Low Light Carbine
The low light classes continue on October 13 with Low Light Carbine.
Bring
your carbine equipped with a light, sling, safety gear, and 200 rounds
of ammunition. Conversion kits for .22 LR and dedicated .22 LR
upper receivers are allowed in the class. The
cost is $65 and pre-registration is not required. The course is at Elm Fork
and runs from 6:30 PM to 9 PM.
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Team Sniper Match Wrapup and Report
Team
sniper matches at Tiger Valley always represent an interesting set of
challenges. Participants who expect simply to lob rounds from a
fixed position quickly realize that much more is expected of them at
our matches.
Our team match on September 19 and 20 proved no
exception. With over forty teams registered, we provided six
stages on Saturday, followed by a long qualification stage on Sunday.
One
stage was a building assault. The door was breached with a
shotgun, pistol targets were engaged, followed by a climb to the second
story and engaged distant targets out a mid-height window.
Another stage started with the spotter's carbine completely field
stripped (down to the firing pin), placed in a box, and assembled by
feel only through a cutout on the side when the timer started.
The team exchanged weapons, then
had to communicate and shoot their way through the rest of the stage.
Other
challenges included distant shots against a moving target with hostages
scattered in the background and engagements out to 1050 yards.
Sunday wrapped up with scoring and teams taking prizes from our outstanding prize table. Final results can be found here.
We would like to thank all of our participants, excellent range officers, and outstanding sponsors!
Advanced GunWorks
Atwell Tactical
Cavalry Arms
DPMS
DSG Arms
Jet Suppressors
LaRue Tactical
Leupold
Manner Composite Stocks
McMillan
Mystery Ranch
Parscale Photography
Premier Reticles
Shark Suppressors
Spec-Ops Brand
Storm Tactical
Surefire
Surgeon Rifles
SWFA
Triad Tactical
USA Ammo
US Optics
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| After the Shooting
--by T.J. Pilling
It
wasn’t too many years ago that an officer was working patrol. As
things would have it, a motorcycle pulls up with the driver not wearing
a helmet. Everyone at the intersection is looking at the officer
wondering why he isn’t stopping this guy. The officer at this
point switches to a secondary radio channel and initiates a traffic
stop on the motorcycle.
All the officer had in mind was to
tell the violator to take the bike home and don’t ride without a
helmet. It became obvious during the initial contact that the
suspect was irate. Within seconds he bolted and was running
through back yards vaulting fences. The officer was now notifying
dispatch that he was also in foot chase on the secondary channel.
The officer in question was new, having just finished one of the
toughest academies in the country. Within a short distance the
officer had closed on the suspect.
The suspect took a fighting
stance and the officer drew his mace and tried to deploy it. The
suspect knocked the canister from his hands, at which time the officer
drew his asp, which was also lost in the fight. The suspect
turned to run and the officer went for a lateral neck restraint.
The
officer had the suspect from behind and was breaking his stance down
when he felt an impact on his forehead. He came off the restraint
thinking the suspect had grabbed his flashlight or asp and had struck
him in the head. The suspect didn’t have an impact weapon; he had
just shot the officer in the head. As the officer came off the
suspect, the suspect again came up with a .38 revolver and shot the
officer in the side of the head. The officer drew his handgun and
shot the suspect in his side, at which time both fell facing each other
on the ground at arms length, a true “in the hole” gun fight.
The
suspect brought his weapon up and the officer bladed the weapon away
getting shot in his forearm, and in and out of his bicep. The
suspect was then shot crosswise the other way by the officer, through
his chest. The suspect again raised his weapon to shoot the
officer in the face and the officer places his own weapon against the
suspect's left jaw and fires again. The bullet passes through,
breaking the jaw. Again the suspect tried to shoot the officer and the
officer places the gun up to his lip and fires but the shot angles
off. The officer fires one final shot, pressing his weapon to the
suspect's forehead and firing. The suspect is down and the fight
is over.
When the first back up arrives the officer is
standing over the suspect, weapon in his hands, bleeding like
crazy. The backup takes one look at the officer and says, “You
look like shit”. Note to self, this is not the thing someone
needs to hear when he or she is leaking from multiple holes.
Needless to say at this point the officer needs to sit down. Not
because he was out of the fight physically, but because brother officer
had painted a mental picture that he didn’t need to hear at the time.
Times
like this positive reinforcement is needed, not blunt reality.
Yes, he looked horrible but he didn’t need any further confirmation of
that fact, especially from a brother officer. What you say to
someone involved in life taking can have a lasting impact on the mental
outcome of this type of situation. Fortunately it didn't with
this officer; he is a true warrior and survived to shoot another
day. He sent another suspect to judgment a year later, as the
suspect charged him with an SKS.
In my opinion the best thing
to do is to support the person and remove them from the area to a safe
location. Needless to say, make sure they have medial attention
coming and support them mentally with positive but non-judgmental
statements. Doing this will also lesson the chance of verbal
diarrhea at the scene caused by adrenaline and endorphins, the last
thing you need is to be seen standing over the suspect shouting “we
sent you to hell”, which I saw at another shooting. It may be fun
to joke about but hard to defend in civil litigation two years later
when the dust has settled.
Everyone has a different mind set
about taking a human life. We can’t make judgmental statements at
the scene that might not apply to them. Background, religious
beliefs and values all play into the equation. Yes, they took a life,
but they may not think it was a wonderful experience at the time just
because you do from the sideline. How someones reacts may have
as much to do with the last personal encounter as much as their
training. If you had a pissing match with the wife before you
left for work it just might affect how you respond and how well you are
in the game.
It’s our job to look at them with as little fear
in our eyes as possible and support them even when our adrenaline is
squirting out our ears. We have to stay calm to keep them
supported throughout the processes, be it fellow officer, a
friend, or someone unknown to us.
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