Pat Mac’s Basic Pistol Drill for Beginners 

What troop were you with? I was in Comanche Trp. 2013

I am not sure if Pat has any formal education training, but his instruction ticks several of the boxes for good classroom instruction. There is a best practice model called the “Hunter Model for Mastery Learning,” and I am able to identify several parts of it in his instruction. For example, he uses the overall structure of Direct Instruction, Guided Practice, and Independent Practice. During Guided Practice, he uses the trimodal hear/see/do approach. Then, he assesses the students during the Independent Practice phase and offers remedial correction when necessary. He circulates among the students like a trained classroom teacher. If Pat doesn’t have official training as a teacher, he naturally understands what students need to succeed.

Same here in Germany. Hate it.

@@lupeooo If you want more dynamic shooting, look for the right clubs that feature disciplines of the BDS like steel challenge or if you want to move more you've got to move to ipsc. There are several good training options. You can also take part in shooting events in other countries if you got the travel money. Recently Lynx Brutality in started in Slovenia and if you're into long range/prs there are big events in Poland, some ranges in France and Austria. If you look for it there are lots of great classes out there from some that extensively trained in the US as well.

Could y'all get the range masters to let y'all try something a bit different?

@@onpsxmember I just found out there is NPSA / IPSC in the Netherlands. There is a range, not to far from here, so perhaps i can inform over there. Thanks for the info!

Goodnight brother

Morning! Coffee and Mac! Always before work.

Make sure that they know that end of the drill is to drop their firearm and yell "kill me" to their adversary.

He is training fundamentals

I thought that was him

Walmart vision centers have prescription eye pro usually. Sometimes smaller local places do too, and you might get a more accurate prescription there, but if you don't want to search around Walmart is a good bet. Not all Walmarts have vision centers though.

It refers only to manipulating the trigger

@@JA-oo9qp Does "Squeeze, squeeze" mean small, incremental bursts of pressure on the trigger with your finger until you fire the gun?

@@connorperrett9559 It’s very much to be judged by you what the correct pace is. To understand what that might look like ask yourself what acceptable shot placement looks like and pull, squeeze, yank or apply pressure incrementally to the trigger as fast as possible while keeping the sights within that acceptable range of deviation. The best way to keep the sights still i.e., within the acceptable sight picture during the entire ignition phase, is to grip the pistol as hard as possible with the support hand while sights stay inside the wobble zone.

Trigger. If you squeeze the grip after establishing your initial grip, you move the the gun, altering aim. Lots of instructors got away from "squeeze" and went to "pull", but that's actually more problematic. Better instructors stay with "squeeze" but explain it more thoroughly. At least that's been my experience. Haven't had the honor of training with Pat in person yet.

You don’t shoot unless your sights are aligned with the target. It’s forcing you to have proper sight alignment/sight picture before the gun can send the next shot accurately. Doesn’t do you any good to reset your trigger if your sights aren’t on the target. Faster you get realigned and back on target, the faster you can send your next shot to the target.

^correct!

I gotcha. People tend to rip through the trigger making them shoot low left as a right shooter and low right and a left hand shooter. Telling yourself "squeeze" allows you to audibly tell yourself to squeeze the trigger allowing for accurate shots, "sight" is simply making sure your sights are lined up correctly and that your aren't disturbing them while, you guessed it! Squeezing the trigger! Hope this makes sense! I know I'm a year late but if you see this, I hope your learning journey is going great! Good luck 🤞🏻

I know this is late but it does look like a model of "shadow systems". Look them up! Really good guns! Good luck