Interesting Firearm Photos #98

 

My first attempt at organized firearms training

 My first attempt at organized firearms training by Bobby Thurman

You may have read my article about the training I received at Thunder Ranch back in March. After the training concluded, the instructors requested that we take what we learned and share it with others, by training others we get better ourselves and help cement the education we received into our long-term memory.

So, I made an offer to some friends and four people stepped up to get some training.

Two men and two women volunteered, of the two men only one had spent a lot of time shooting and carrying firearms, the other man had shot before, but not a lot and was using a gun that was new to him. 

The two women had shot their guns before but never had received any kind of formal training.

Before the training I built some target stands from 2x3 and 2x2 lumber.

I also cleared out a spot out in the desert a few miles from my home, set up the targets and marked out 25, 50, 75 and 100 foot shooting lines.

I went over my notes from the training and knew that there was no way to fit two days of training into a few hours, so I pared it down to the important stuff:

• Safety
• Holster selection
• Stance
• Grip
• Draw
• Sight picture
• Reloads
• Clearing jams

First I set the range rules, and set up tables for people to reload

I queried the shooters about the 4 rules of gun safety, between them they knew 3 of the 4.

Discussing grip, trigger control and drawing 

Stance was the hardest thing to drill into people heads, everyone understood the instructions, but kept going back to incorrect posture.

Live fire practice, draw and shoot

Here we are discussing reloads and clearing jams.

tactical reloading practice

More live fire practice, this round was more about getting comfortable with your holster, your draw and finding the sight picture.

Some of the shooters did pretty good on getting holes on target, others need more practice.

This four-hour training was more about the basics of using a pistol for defense, obviously to be proficient a lot more shooting needs to be done. We plan a follow up course where we will go back over the original training and add in things like cover vs concealment, moving while shooting, choice of ammunition and legal issues.

About the author:

Bobby Thurman grew up in the wilds of Southern Oregon and has been around guns all his life, a Navy veteran and SEALs applicant, he has participated in IDPA and other shooting competitions. He has hit a milk jug sized target at 1000 yards with his Savage rifle in .338 Lapua and plans to hit one at a mile.

Firearm Factory of the Month: LES/Rogak Inc

 

Once upon a time (early 1980s) militaries around the world were looking to update their sidearms. In Austria the Browning Hi-Power was the chosen sidearm for the Austrian Military, but they wanted something new. Steyr, an Austrian arms maker decided to create a new pistol just for this competition.

What they created was an 18 round 9mm, gas delayed pistol that, while very well designed and built, still lost to the then new Glock 17.

The pistol Steyr built was called the GB, standing for Gas Bremse (Gas Brake).

Steyr also entered the US Military competition a year or two later and lost that competition to the Beretta M92.

Sometime during all of this Steyr's US importer got their hands on some drawings or a preproduction sample and decided to build the GB stateside. Details are not clear on whether this was a licensed copy or a poorly designed unlicensed clone.

The importer was a company called LES Manufacturing in Morton Grove, Illinois. What they produced was a pistol that barely worked and was basically a fixed barrel blow back 9mm.

After a short time, the guns were no longer being produced, again details are fuzzy, we are not sure if Steyr sued them or pulled their license or if it was the local township outlawing the manufacture of guns within their borders. Either way only a few thousand of these pistols were produced.

What Remains:

The gun is universally thought of as a joke, look at any auction and you will see they are sold as a novelty, not a serious weapon.

Nailing down the place where the Rogak was produced was difficult, the ad above shows an address of 2301 N. Davis Street, North Chicago. That address doesn't exist, at least not anymore. The closest I found was the home of King Wire, which occupies a massive warehouse.

Talking points to shut up anti-gun retards

I know some people might cringe at the use of the word "retard", but it actually means "not up to speed", the opposite of "advanced". Which is a good way to describe people who cannot seem to wrap their head around logic. I could also call them sociopathic, as they lack the ability to see another person's point of view or even acknowledge that others should even have a point of view. 

While I am not going to negotiate my rights, I still on occasion engage in online debates, don't ask me why, I guess I am holding on to some hopeless belief that these leftists will come to their senses.

At any rate, here are some great arguments to throw at them and let them chew on. Maybe it will change a mind somewhere?

This 1st one brilliantly illustrates the difference between conservatives and leftists.

This one touches on the unsurmountable objective leftists will have if they ever get their way and abolish the Second Amendment, that is assuming we are not involved in an all-out civil war.

For me, I see intent, not the tool, if a person has no mal intent what difference does it make which tool he owns?

sage advice, our objective should be to bring peace to those who assault us.

This one is self-explanatory and shows the glaring hypocrisy of the left.

If guns are the problem, then no one should have a gun, no?

Hogg boy loves to put his foot in his mouth....

While most gun owners will not tell how many guns they own, nor explain the reasons.....

If it saves just one life.....right?

#truth

Yep, another meme that says it all

We didn't need to foresee changes in tools or weapons or communications.....a right is a right.

After Covid, the stolen election, the attempted assignation of Trump and the murder of Charlie Kirk, the left is on borrowed time.

Again, if fences and guns are evil, why is the left surrounded by them????

This argument becomes even more valid when you tell them that they are saying that "transpeople" should not get a say either...

Hogg boy does it again....

Tell me what was the party of the Presidents that took us to war in WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam, then get me the list of those who assassinated the Presidents......

Hoplophobia is real, although I believe it is often misdiagnosed, the real sickness is sociopathic narcissism with extreme paranoia.

For when leftists tell you that "no one is coming to take your guns" or "the government has never tried to take your guns"......oh it has been tried....and it failed.....