Las Vegas

I attended a tactical handgun class with Garth and Jesse which lasted four days. The training was held at a place 45 minutes west of Las Vegas.
I had a lot of fun, but it was a lot of work. Three months prior Jesse was telling me all about
the class. He claimed graduates of the class will be better trained than military and law enforcement. I’m not sure if I bought that. I thought perhaps Jesse received minimal firearms training because the Army doesn’t care if their anesthesiologists can handle a gun.
But after taking the class, and after talking with law enforcement and
other officers in the military, I believe he was spot on. The training was awesome.


All of the instructors and even most of the students were very good with firearms. Most of the
students were military, law enforcement, or ex-military. The Lead instructor, “Chacci” was insanely competent at handling a gun. It was alot of fun. The first night before class
started we were at the hotel talking about going swimming, going running in the
mornings, and I brought a book in case I got bored at night. We ended up too tired to do any of that. We were up early and came home from class exhausted.

Routine:

Woke up at 5:00, showered, ate breakfast at hotelrestaurant, and drove to class. For two
days class was held in the morning for about an hour. We were then dismissed to the range. At the range, we had about 28 students. We were usually lectured for about a halfhour, and then shown how to do a drill, then went to the range and shot. This was repeated over and over. The class was broken up into two relays. So as the first relay shot, the second relay
coached, made suggestions how to shoot better, and made sure 1st relay was acting in a safe manner. Additionally, four to six instructors came around and coached. It really benefitted me because the people I was paired with knew more about handguns than I did. Day one I was paired with an Air force pilot, Day two an Arizona Highway Patrolman, day three and four a military contractor that had been in Iraq. All of these people were very good and I learned a ton from them. In addition to the firearm certifications, most of the instructors were accomplished in various forms of martial arts.


Chacci- Head Range Master at our Range (kind of looks like
Duane Johnson in Fast Five)



- “ I run a politically incorrect range”

- “GET RID OF THESE EMPTY CLIPS WITH DISDAIN!!!” “We
don’t place them gently on the ground so they don’t get dirt on them….” It was
funny to watch him throw the clips to the ground so hard they bounced off the
gravel.

- “Take a step to the left, physically, not
politically.”

- He made a Comment about how he heard other instructors don’t like to shoot in front of the class because instructors don’t want the students to see weakness. Then
calls those instructors a choice name, then proceeds with drill, and shoots
controlled pair to the thoracic cavity with the spread the size of a quarter.

- “Any gun will do if you will”. Chacci always talked crap about all guns are
inferior to the 1911.

- “Is it
just me or is there something sexy about a woman that knows how to handle a gun
properly.” All the guys were enthusiastically nodding and voicing opinion in agreement with him.

- How to take your gun belt off when using the
restroom.

- “In my neighborhood…”

- “Any questions? Not even from Garth?”

- “ I guess this is the wrong crowd to get my
rapper jokes”

- Moser putting bullets and rocks in my coat.

- Mrs. Walker (65 year old lady) giving me tips on
improving my aim. She knew what she was
doing.

- Guy from Indiana wearing hat that said “dumb
ass”. Reaction when Garth told him he played the Organ “No $#!x,” Funny to see his surprised reaction.

- Timing us to make sure we could consistently present out of concealment, and squeeze a controlled pair on target all under 1.5 seconds. Moving us back to 15 yards to make sure we were aiming.

- The competition was awesome at the end. Took hostage shot at about 15 yards, and two
bad guys at about 20 yards. The weather conditions were not good, it was windy and cold. This bad weather made it more like real circumstances. I was surprised what alittle stress did to everyone. I thought everyone was inconsistent. A marineknocked me out. The final winner was a
contractor.

It was fun hanging out with people that are dedicated toexcellence. We decided we are going to take our wives there nextyear. Wendy is already good at handling a gun and I think she would like the class.

David’s Nursery Rhyme

Once there was an accountant that suffered a type three malfunction

Trigger Pull
Side Step
Tip the muzzle
Lock the slide
Strip the mag
Rack Rack Rack
Load the clip
Tap hard
Rack the slide
Pull the trigger

Star Wars

Lisa and Eric's disturbing facial expression watching Star Wars on our 120 inch home theatre system.