I just completed a CCW renewal on my backyard range.
Two elderly men drove about 40 minutes all the way over to my place for this event, in a cold, winter drizzle.
One gentleman had been a renewal customer of mine last year. And he brought his buddy over for the same thing.
Anyway, there we were out in the cold and rain and drizzle.....One elderly man sitting in a lawnchair in the barn adjacent to my pistol range, and another old man standing next to me in the rain, his hands shaking as he tried to load the magazine to the Besa .380.
He was slow and shaky, and to be honest, I felt a litte sorry for him.....poor, shaky little old man, determined to shoot even in the cold drizzle, doing what he could to protect himself with the only gun he could afford, a Bersa .380.
We shot several drills, and then I moved the target stand up to within about 2 feet of him.
I always have my CCW students shoot in a variety of ways....two-handed aimed fire from 7 to 10 yards, one-handed "point shooting" at about 3 yards, and one-handed rentention position from about two feet or less, even one drill wherein they have to take cover and engage multiple targets.....I always tell them that these are all drills they can set up and practice at home.
I moved the target stand up to about 24 inches from him, and explained the drill, and had him simulate the "rentention position" a few times.
Right before he started shooting the drill, the shaky elderly gentleman looked up to me and said, "You mind if I use my other gun on this one?"
Other gun? I wondered.......I said sure, no problem.
He pockets his Bersa .380, and reaches to the hidden holster on his belt, underneath his rain jacket.......and VOILA! Compact Glock 10mm.
BOOM!! BOOM!!
When he shot the rentention-position target, the muzzle blast from that compact Glock 10mm blew the paper target through the cardboard backing on my target stand.
The turnabout from the previous image of the shaky, little old man with the cheapo .380 was just too much to take....I almost collapsed from laughter.
hillbilly
Two elderly men drove about 40 minutes all the way over to my place for this event, in a cold, winter drizzle.
One gentleman had been a renewal customer of mine last year. And he brought his buddy over for the same thing.
Anyway, there we were out in the cold and rain and drizzle.....One elderly man sitting in a lawnchair in the barn adjacent to my pistol range, and another old man standing next to me in the rain, his hands shaking as he tried to load the magazine to the Besa .380.
He was slow and shaky, and to be honest, I felt a litte sorry for him.....poor, shaky little old man, determined to shoot even in the cold drizzle, doing what he could to protect himself with the only gun he could afford, a Bersa .380.
We shot several drills, and then I moved the target stand up to within about 2 feet of him.
I always have my CCW students shoot in a variety of ways....two-handed aimed fire from 7 to 10 yards, one-handed "point shooting" at about 3 yards, and one-handed rentention position from about two feet or less, even one drill wherein they have to take cover and engage multiple targets.....I always tell them that these are all drills they can set up and practice at home.
I moved the target stand up to about 24 inches from him, and explained the drill, and had him simulate the "rentention position" a few times.
Right before he started shooting the drill, the shaky elderly gentleman looked up to me and said, "You mind if I use my other gun on this one?"
Other gun? I wondered.......I said sure, no problem.
He pockets his Bersa .380, and reaches to the hidden holster on his belt, underneath his rain jacket.......and VOILA! Compact Glock 10mm.
BOOM!! BOOM!!
When he shot the rentention-position target, the muzzle blast from that compact Glock 10mm blew the paper target through the cardboard backing on my target stand.
The turnabout from the previous image of the shaky, little old man with the cheapo .380 was just too much to take....I almost collapsed from laughter.
hillbilly
