Day 2 at Blackwater was a blast, there was a lot, and I mean a lot 
of shooting today. Here's the scene from outside the BlackBear Inn around 0730 on Saturday morning. I'd make a joke about how you'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany, but I'm pretty sure that I'd be doing scum and villany (an Alec Guiness) a disservice by so doing. On the topic of the BlackBear Inn, I've been quite pleased with our accomodations. The room isn't huge, but it's nice and clean.
of shooting today. Here's the scene from outside the BlackBear Inn around 0730 on Saturday morning. I'd make a joke about how you'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany, but I'm pretty sure that I'd be doing scum and villany (an Alec Guiness) a disservice by so doing. On the topic of the BlackBear Inn, I've been quite pleased with our accomodations. The room isn't huge, but it's nice and clean.After breakfast, we headed over to the range in our fabulous Blackwater Limosuines - two SUVs that had been used for force on force (among other things) training, and were all shot to pieces, yet somehow still run and weirdly enough, the radio still worked. These are the most tactical vehicles every, as evidenced by their sweet "custom" windows.
But the range work, that's where the real fun is at.
This was actually the best idea I've ever seen when teaching - if you enlarge the picture you'll see that he's drawing on Say Uncle's hand to give him a reference point for where exactly to put his hands every time he grabs the gun. This is seriously the best idea I've ever seen, it provides the student a repeatable example of proper hand placement on the gun, so that in slowfire drills they can then check their hand position, break the shot, check the hand position, etc. Being able to look down, and see if my hands were aligned with a quick spot check was excellent, and allowed me to practice indexing them so that the positioning 
became natural by the end of the day. Eventually, we actually shot some guns after practicing our hand position. Here's Joe Huffman running his gun (the Para LDA) in a drill on some targets at about 15 yards.
Of course, we didn't do "stand and blast", because after a while Todd Jarrett had us moving and shooting, as the below picture (again of Say Uncle) demonstrates. We shot several IDPA/IPSC style stages, included stages with moving targets, etc, reloads, shooting on the move, it was absolutely fantastic. This was actually the best idea I've ever seen when teaching - if you enlarge the picture you'll see that he's drawing on Say Uncle's hand to give him a reference point for where exactly to put his hands every time he grabs the gun. This is seriously the best idea I've ever seen, it provides the student a repeatable example of proper hand placement on the gun, so that in slowfire drills they can then check their hand position, break the shot, check the hand position, etc. Being able to look down, and see if my hands were aligned with a quick spot check was excellent, and allowed me to practice indexing them so that the positioning became natural by the end of the day. Eventually, we actually shot some guns after practicing our hand position. Here's Joe Huffman running his gun (the Para LDA) in a drill on some targets at about 15 yards.The guns are great, and so is the training. We'll have even more pictures up tomorrow, and listen up to the show this coming Tuesday for our ParaUSA Blackwater Wrap-up post.
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