Guns, Dogs and Blades QnA
Well I finally got home from a whirlwind trip of both getting trained and training. I took an instructor course from the gentleman that trains many of the FBI HRT teams and countless SWAT groups across the Country, plus the US Marshall’s. Scott Jedinski of Modern Samurai. Let’s just say the course was very very difficult and the heat index was 106. I had so much stick em on my hands my pistol is trashed out. Very tuff two days. But in the end I managed to squeak out a passing grade and am now a certified Red Dot Instructor via Modern Samurai. He took each of us to the absolute edge of our abilities, shrugged and kicked us over the edge and simply went on to next shooter, rinse and repeat. Zero compassion! Hah! I guess if you are training HRT Teams on a regular basis you simply cannot compromise your standards. Officers and Swat guys came from all over the Country to attend as more and more Depts are going to red dot. In an odd twist of fate at one point I was lined up next to a gentleman that had the same accent as I have, so we sniffed each other out, and it turned out he was my boys instructor at the Police Academy many years ago. They now serve on same Dept. I gave him twenty bucks and told him to tell my boy I was top shooter! Hah! Small world. At end of the day we did a head to head elimination drill and after several runs I was eliminated by the guy that owned the range we were training on, he trains the local SWAT teams and is a excellent longe range shooter. I did not feel to bad!
Well I finally got home from a whirlwind trip of both getting trained and training. I took an instructor course from the gentleman that trains many of the FBI HRT teams and countless SWAT groups across the Country, plus the US Marshall’s. Scott Jedinski of Modern Samurai. Let’s just say the course was very very difficult and the heat index was 106. I had so much stick em on my hands my pistol is trashed out. Very tuff two days. But in the end I managed to squeak out a passing grade and am now a certified Red Dot Instructor via Modern Samurai. He took each of us to the absolute edge of our abilities, shrugged and kicked us over the edge and simply went on to next shooter, rinse and repeat. Zero compassion! Hah! I guess if you are training HRT Teams on a regular basis you simply cannot compromise your standards. Officers and Swat guys came from all over the Country to attend as more and more Depts are going to red dot. In an odd twist of fate at one point I was lined up next to a gentleman that had the same accent as I have, so we sniffed each other out, and it turned out he was my boys instructor at the Police Academy many years ago. They now serve on same Dept. I gave him twenty bucks and told him to tell my boy I was top shooter! Hah! Small world. At end of the day we did a head to head elimination drill and after several runs I was eliminated by the guy that owned the range we were training on, he trains the local SWAT teams and is a excellent longe range shooter. I did not feel to bad!
