Over the weekend, a friend of mine announced that he is working on a non-violent first person shooter app designed to utilize the math and mental skills required for long-distance marksmanship.
Here’s the post from the Facebook page, to help you understand what exactly he’s trying to do:
For those who want to follow along:
I want to build a new game, a first person shooter, but not one that rewards you for maiming the elderly and law enforcement. So no Grand Theft Auto look-alikes here. I’d rather have a game that teaches useful long range marksmanship skills, which involves quite a bit of thinking and no small amount of trigonometry. And instead of shooting up gangsters, we’ll shoot up garbage cans.
But I can’t call the game “Non-violent marksmanship with Trigonometry” I’ll never see a single download! So Sniper Dojo is about the best name I could come up with where the domain name was still available. That’s how I got the name.
What do I need to do? Four things:
1. Build the basic Game Loop, which I’ll do with Unity.
2. Build a Monetization Loop, which I’ll do with Ads and In App Purchasing of scenarios past 1000 meters and new rifle/ammo/scope packages.
3. I also need to build in User Acquisition and Retention, which I’ll do with some Social Network sharing features, Leaderboards and Achievements, and plenty of analytics and A|B Testing.
4. Another important thing is building a fan base. If I do this right, I’ll have 1000 fans along with me on this journey who want to get the game (and all the ad-ins) for free upon launch. This Facebook page and the eponymously named Twitter account represent my initial efforts in this regard.
So I invite you to join me, and comment on what you want and don’t want in a game like this. If you leave a thoughtful message, follow the twitter account and ‘Like’ this page, I’ll get you the game and IAP items for free when I’m done.
The idea certainly isn’t for everyone, but there are a broad number of firearms owners who aren’t interested in participating in violent first person shooters, but would be excited by a thoughtful game to help improve marksmanship skills. As someone who enjoys long distance shooting, but is terrible at math and doesn’t really understand how all the numbers go together I am both intimidated and intrigued.
Probably the most common question I encounter from folks interested in getting a pistol for self defense is “What gun should I buy?” It’s not a bad question, certainly, but there’s really no single answer to that question. It’s complicated…but the “what gun should I buy?” question is child’s play compared to the next most common question: What do I need to know?
There is so much to learn that the most appropriate question is not “What do I need to know”, but rather “Where do I start?” The truth is that there are a lot of things that a beginner needs to know ranging from safe handling practices on the range and off the range up through important indicators of imminent criminal assault. Most have little or no knowledge or experience in these areas, and often the knowledge and experience some folks do have is just hopelessly wrong. The beginner is best served, in my opinion, by getting themselves into a quality training course that teaches a solid foundation and enough of the important things to give the student a better chance of success in self defense. Notice the highlight of the word enough. The goal here is not producing a world champion competitive shooter, a SOF assaulter, a published expert in self defense case law, or a criminologist. The goal is to produce someone who has enough knowledge and skill to solve a problem they are likely to be involved in. Enough knowledge about how criminals work to spot an intended attack and avoid it if possible, enough skill and aggression to defeat the attack if necessary, and enough knowledge about the legal principles of self defense to act within the boundaries of the law and adequately manage the aftermath of a use of force.
John Murphy has put together a solid self-defense focused program that serves as an excellent foundation for the untrained.
When I need to get someone from zero to enough quickly and efficiently, I often point them in the direction of John Murphy of FPF Training. Murphy has assembled a solid self defense based program that I believe will serve as a good foundation for those thoughtful enough to realize they need training. In my training adventures I’ve encountered the good and the goofy in the training industry. I can recognize a good program when I see one and Murphy’s is one of the good ones. Having been through these classes I would not hesitate to put my own family in them because the course content is sound and reasonable in all respects.
The students in classes I attended a couple of weeks ago ran the gamut. There was a pharmacist (pharmacies are popular targets for drug seeking bad guys) who had already had a couple of uncomfortable run-ins with bad characters, dentists and orthodontists with minimal (if any) experience with firearms, husband and wife teams, construction workers, computer programmers, engineers, plumbers…you name it. These were all very nice people and most of them had little experience with firearms and almost no experience dealing with bad guys…and Murphy had two days (one day for many of them) to build enough knowledge and skill to produce basic competence in defensive application of a firearm.
Individual attention is provided to each student to coach them through unfamiliar concepts…in this instance, teaching clearing a malfunction using dummy rounds for safety.
The two days of training were broken down into two different classes, each with a different focus. The Concealed Carry Foundation Skills class was aimed at the basics of safe handling, basic marksmanship, and drawing from concealment. Class began with a lecture and presentation introducing the course content, the principles of safe handling, and the “transitional moment”…the moment when your daily life is interrupted by a criminal assault. Murphy puts video to good use in his presentations to illustrate teaching points. It was interesting to watch the impact the video footage had on the other students in class…gasping, jumping in chairs, hands over mouths in the universal sign language for “Oh my god!”…the videos clearly had significant impact on the students and helped ingrain the important concepts. After the presentation/lecture, the class moved into the basics of marksmanship and manipulations using empty weapons and dummy rounds for dryfire.
I know some people look down on dryfire work on the range but it plays a crucial role in getting folks with minimal skill and experience up to speed in the basics of marksmanship and, most importantly, safe handling. Human beings are not born knowing how to safely handle a firearm around other people. If you watch an untrained person handle a firearm I guarantee you will see poor muzzle discipline and finger-on-the-trigger at inappropriate times. The Four Rules sound simple enough in theory, but when people start touching real weapons they might as well be particle physics done while riding a unicycle and juggling chainsaws. It takes some time and repetition for most folks to learn proper handling habits. I watched as Murphy changed the pace of class to match the pace of the students. He and his assistant instructors worked one-on-one with students to ensure everyone was performing manipulations with proper safety and good technique. Only after every student had been given a closely-watched thumbs up from the instructors did we move on to live fire.
Live fire was done with the same crawl-walk-run approach. Basic marksmanship led to multiple shot strings, and then working from the draw…including from different starting positions as demonstrated above. Note the use of photo-realistic targets that highlight human anatomy in much of the shooting. Students were presented with this constant visual reminder of the importance of accuracy in stopping a threat. After some work on the range we moved back into the classroom where John covered basics of criminal assault, again punctuated with the use of video. The day finished by shooting a qualification course of fire, which all of the students passed easily. Having seen the targets earlier in the day when we began with live fire, the qualification targets showed impressive improvement.
The next day’s Street Encounter Skills went into greater depth on criminal assaults, how they work, and how to avoid them…and, frankly, how to just avoid trouble in general. Murphy, like most quality instructors, is a big believer in avoiding problems whenever possible to do so. Here again prolific use of video footage including presentation of followup research on incidents shown in some of the videos drove home the wisdom of avoiding problems as a default policy. Fighting is risky and messy and it’s always preferable to avoid a problem in the first place if you can rather than trying to shoot your way out of the middle of a problem you didn’t see coming due to lack of attention or stupidity. Murphy does, I believe, an excellent job of showcasing how quickly stupid things can turn into lethal things and giving his students useful strategies to avoid being involved in what he refers to as “the monkey dance”.
The focus of Street Encounter Skills was entirely practical. There was no magic ninja level stuff presented, just useful information about how bad guys try to attack their prey (that would be you, folks) and useful strategies to keep them at distance while determining their intentions, and if necessary how to violently counter-attack someone who is threatening you with criminal violence and/or lethal force.
As mentioned in the beginning, the goal here is what will hopefully be enough. At the very least a good foundation that students can build on as they continue to learn and improve their skills…and if they are the victim of a criminal assault hopefully enough knowledge and skill to see them through a horrible situation. When you stop to really think carefully about it, enough is a pretty lofty goal…and this program at FPF Training does a good job of meeting that goal, in my view.
If you’re wondering where to start, wonder no more.
What does it say that I’ve always wanted a P239, but I’ve never bought one? I didn’t want one that bad? There was no story to go with it? I don’t know. It’s always in the back of my mind though. An all-metal single stack 9mm with a DA/SA trigger is a bit of a departure from my regularly preferred plastic fantastics, but I’ve always had a soft spot for this.
Do you have a gun you want but have never gone out of your way to add to the collection?
I strongly dislike the stock sights that come on GLOCK pistols. Fortunately, there are tons of options out there and, well, this is my option of choice: Sevigny Performance. Designed by this guy you may have heard of: Dave Sevigny. I like to think he knows what he’s doing with this whole gun/sights thing.
They’ve released their sights for the GLOCK 43, and it’s a fun opportunity for me to diagnose what I like so much about them. The first thing to realize is that Sevigny Peformance has a line of sights, so there are different options for competition, carry, etc. For the GLOCK 42 and 43, they’ve created a set of tritium night sights. It’s a two-dot system and it’s glowy.
How accurate are they? Well, check out these three shots I pulled and the four I didn’t (“That was at 7 yards? Don’t you have Bianchi Cup next week?” Yes, yes, you’ll find me in a ball under that little table by the Practical at the practice range crying.):
I need to shoot more.
So… You can see the sights at night, I love the two-dot system for carry because it’s fast, they’re accurate, and designed by someone who knows what he’s doing. Big fan. They can stay.
Side note: I also have Sevigny Peformance sights on my competition FNS and one of my M&Ps.
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On Friday, Caleb had scheduled a post regarding the press check. He simply posed a question, and in true bloggy nature all of you answered with varying degrees of opinions and several insults. As you are all now stuck with me as primary content creator on Gun Nuts while Caleb is on a leave of absence for a couple months (a vast upgrade, I agree) I figured I would throw my opinion in with the bunch.
Now I’m a liar because I press checked my M&P for this terrible photo. Also, I know my nails are chipped, sorry about that moment of weakness.
Personally, if I’m picking up an unholstered gun, no matter its state or what it’s been doing, I press check it. Now, having said that, I haven’t looked inside the M&P that lives by my bed in like a week because, well, it’s been in a holster and it’s not like anyone’s been around to unload the thing. It hasn’t been touched since that night there was a screaming woman across the street (I’ve been trying to turn that into a blog post, but turning “I locked the doors and grabbed my gun and by the time I was at the window dialing the cops they were already there” into 300 words is more difficult than I previously imagined).
Press checks are an important part of a safety routine when you’re handling any firearm. On the same stroke, the holster is a lot safer place for a loaded gun than your hands. Which is why my M&P, for example, stays securely in its holster unless I know it’s been handled (so yes, the night with the screaming lady across the street it got a press check). My carry gun? Checked every morning before I holster it, because it’s being handled. It’s a pretty simple gut reaction for me.
So that’s where I draw the line between “paranoid about bullet gremlins” and “safety is the most important thing” (safety is the most important thing).
Ah, the press check. The way truly paranoid people make sure the bullet gremlins haven’t magically removed the round from the chamber of your carry gun. Some people will say that it’s an unnecessary measure that can cause bullet setback, and other people say it should be an essential part of your daily routine. So bro, do you even press check?
The “Keeper” holster with the included foam blocks and my pet Wilson CQB.
Recently an article on Appendix Inside the Waist Band carry published in one of the NRA’s online entities generated a bit of controversy on forums and social media. AIWB carry does seem to be getting more popular as people discover that carrying the handgun in line with the widest profile of the body makes invisibly carrying a duty-quality pistol much easier. The author of the NRA article is, from what I hear, a really good guy…but even really good people can be blind to the limitations of their knowledge. One of the primary factors Mr. LaSorte mentioned in his rebuke of AIWB carry was a pretty common complaint: Comfort. I’ll quote Mr. LaSorte:
“The first day that I tried appendix carry was the first and only day I could have thrown my Glock 19 across a parking lot. It was the thing that hurt me, and I wanted it as far away from me as possible. I didn’t go through with it, of course, but my rage was strong.”
I can sympathize. The first time I tried AIWB carry it was so heinously uncomfortable that I’ve compared it to shoving a ninja star down the front of my pants. What I have learned since then is that successful AIWB carry depends on getting a number of factors exactly right. How much adipose you are carrying along your waistline (I’m carrying FAR too much at the moment), the fit of your pants (not just size but how they ride on your waist/hips), your general body type (short or long torso), and, of course, the holster all have to be matched up to make for successful AIWB carry.
I’ll be blunt: A lot of holsters out there suck. No qualifications to that…they are just awful. People try them, find them heinously unsuitable, and then make a broad pronouncement about all AIWB carry as a result. It would be like test driving a rusted out Civic with no brakes, 4 mismatched tires, the world’s crappiest body kit and a wonky transmission and emerging to proclaim that all Japanese cars are utter garbage.
Different guns might require different holsters to work with AIWB? Mind. Blown.
With AIWB carry even good holsters don’t necessarily work well for everyone because of all the individual factors listed above. If you want to do it successfully, you have to be willing to buy a few holsters and experiment to find the right solutions…and to further complicate the matter, you may find that different guns carry very differently even in the same make and model holster. What you need, then, are a few known good options you can try to see which one fits you and the handgun you are trying to carry. I’ve covered one of my favorites before, and I’m about to cover another good option now: The Keeper.
I recently went insane and bought a Wilson Combat CQB chambered in 9mm. I had no holster for it and Spencer, the owner of Keepers Concealment, asked me if I’d like to give one of his “Keeper” holsters a try. The 1911 has a thin profile but a very long barrel. That combined with the relatively heavy weight of the gun (as it is an all steel handgun, and I haven’t carried one of those for quite some time) makes the 1911 a particularly challenging pistol to tackle with an AIWB holster.
The velcro backing is securely attached to the holster, allowing placement of the included foam wedges wherever it suits you.
One of the benefits of the “Keeper” is that it is built with adjust-ability and customization in mind. In multiple locations Spencer has added velcro attachment points (which look really well done, by the way) that allow use of the included foam blocks to add extra tuck for the butt of the gun, or for comfort. You can even get creative and attach other things to enhance the comfort of the holster for your needs. I didn’t need to get quite as creative as Melody…the included foam blocks worked well for me.
Because of the length of the barrel I figured out that I needed to slightly alter where I located the holster on my waistline compared to other pistol/holster combos I already have. The difference was maybe half an inch, but that half an inch made a huge difference for me. Another top tip about successful AIWB carry: 1/2 an inch really can make the difference between comfort and misery. You have to be willing to experiment to get this right.
The ride height of the holster works well for me with the ride height of my pants and shorts (another area you have to play around with for successful AIWB carry) allowing enough space to get a good firing grip on the pistol while riding low enough for comfort when I sit down. I actually used the “Keeper” in a class I’ll be discussing in the future and when I was on the timer against the vital area of a humanoid target I was able to pull runs ranging from 1-1.2 seconds for the first shot with a closed-front concealment garment. That’s pretty good speed for my skill level, made possible by the ability to get a solid master grip on the gun in a hurry.
This kink in the sweat guard will actually re-engage the manual safety of the 1911 as you holster the pistol if you forgot to do so yourself. I like this feature. A. LOT.
I also rather liked the attention to safety that’s gone into the “Keeper”. Pulling it out of the box I noticed a “kink” in the kydex that covers the left-side thumb safety of the pistol. I had a hunch for what this was for and I cleared my CQB and attempted to place the pistol inside the holster without the safety engaged…and the “Keeper” actually forces the safety on when you holster the pistol. Given that this is intended as an AIWB holster and given the dire consequences of accidentally discharging a handgun in that orientation, I think it’s quite nice to have the holster acting as a backup. I’m as human as anyone else on the planet, and while I try very hard to ingrain proper handling procedures it’s entirely possible for me to miss this crucial step when I’m tired, sunburned, and dehydrated after a long day at the range. The thumb safety used on the Wilson CQB is a much lower profile affair than the traditional Swenson-style 1911 thumb safety, but this feature of the holster still works splendidly with it.
Spencer also tried to engineer in a means of keeping someone from reholstering with their finger still on the trigger:
I tried this out for myself (using a cleared gun, of course) and I can tell you that it’s noticeable when you attempt to reholster with your finger still on the trigger. By “noticeable” I mean “unpleasant”. Given that the “Keeper” will actually re-engage the thumb safety of my 1911, I couldn’t actually create a condition where I would be able to successfully pull the trigger on my 1911 while reholstering the pistol. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s impossible but after playing with it for a while the only way I could see even the possibility of making it happen would be to ram the pistol into the holster so fast and so hard that I would likely break my trigger finger…including ripping off the nail and any skin on the top of it. I’m all about doing thorough product testing for you guys, but I’m going to have to draw the line at deliberately smashing bits of my anatomy.
So what’s the verdict? I think if you are looking at AIWB the “Keeper”should be one of the holsters you consider. It tucks enough to conceal the butt of even a full-sized 1911 with a mag well on it effectively, it’s comfortable, it’s well made, and it has some neat safety features that I found very worthwhile…especially when training with a type of pistol I haven’t done much serious work with in years. A good holster will likely be more expensive than the mediocre and utterly crappy ones on the market, but the mediocre and crappy ones don’t make daily carry comfortable and don’t conceal effectively. Trust me on this: good carry gear is worth the investment.
Editor’s note: today’s guest post is by Cecil Burch, renowned martial artist and self-defense instructor. You’ll see his posts appearing here on Gun Nuts from time to time.
I have been training some form of Martial Art/H2H fighting method for almost thirty five years of constant work, always under the direct eye of a knowledgeable instructor. I have been shooting for even longer. For most of that time, it was really strange to have a foot in both camps.
Generally, I was the odd duck. If I mentioned firearms to most martial artists, I was treated as if I had just said “Heil Hitler”. And if I brought up H2H work to the typical gun enthusiast, I got to hear the refrain along the lines of “I carry a gun so I don’t need that ka-rotty stuff”.
Fortunately, over the past few years, there has been a nice change. Certainly in the Tactical Gun world, where it is much more accepted that there can be a good use for H2H skills, even in a weapons based environment. At least now, when I write something on social media or on a discussion forum, the bulk of the time is spent less on justification, and more on application. This is certainly a more productive use of time!
One of the side effects of all this is a number of trainers who now offer coursework that addresses this need. The flagship of course (and in my opinion, the one that did the most to make people realize the need for it) is Craig Douglas’ ECQC. When he started teaching open enrollment work in 2005, he helped set the groundwork for all that came after. He is still going strong, and has been joined by a number of people who bring their own experiences and ideas with them. While this is a positive thing, it brings with it some problems.
Just as the explosion in CCW permits and gun sales brought the opportunity for less than qualified instructors attempting to cash in, so does an increasing acceptance and search for H2H teaching open the way for poor or incomplete knowledge hitting the marketplace. In an area where this type of thing is new, how can we know if what we are getting is good to go? As someone who has been obsessed with what is fighting functional in the real world my entire martial life, I will bring up some things in this series of articles that I have found to help guide my own journey.
The number one, over riding thing a H2H instructor must bring to the table is pressure tested material; not what he likes, but what he has found what works in the heat of the crucible. The problem right now is that the term “pressure testing” is getting co-opted by instructors with an agenda, and is making the phrase meaningless by changing how it is derived. Like the Scientific Method, it must have defined and repeatable characteristics.
So what does constitute real pressure testing? Here is what I believe is the most proven way of defining it. This definition was a collaborative effort by a number of people on the discussion forum Total Protection Interactive. While I had a hand in it, there was a lot of input from incredibly experienced instructors. I t consists of four parts.
First, you must have a Physically Resisting Opponent. He must be an active barrier to what you are trying to accomplish.
Second, the opponent must have Opposing Will. It is not enough that he is going through the motions of resistance; he must have the will of doing so to fuel the physical action.
Thirdly, the opponent must have Malevolent Intent. Essentially this means he must want to not only stop you and your actions, but he must want you to lose and be put in a worse place than where you started. For example, if we are testing our technique of getting out of a wrist grab, not only does our partner have to try and stop us; he must also want to make us either get stuck in the grab or even end up on the ground totally under the attacker’s control.
And finally, there must be Freedom of Action by the opponent. This is where most martial artists and Combatives people fail. It is relatively easy to “win” if we know that our opponent can only do one thing. Again, as in the above example of countering a wrist grab, if all the attacker can do is hold on, it is not going to be that tough to escape. However, if we let the opponent also throw strikes, drag us around, and try to knock us to the ground, suddenly our problem becomes more complex. More importantly, it becomes more real.
Before we just accept that something has been pressure tested, we need to ensure that the pressure testing meets a logical, defined standard.
I was busy on the range most of the weekend. Saturday evening after returning home after a long, sunburned day I find out that a free speech event had been attacked by two AK-wielding islamists intent on murdering everyone there. It was just a couple of weeks ago that I was in a class with Greg Ellifritz and William Aprill that covered the possibility of active shooters and suicide bombers…and some people invariably questioned the validity of covering that material in an open enrollment course. Is it possible to look at what happened in Texas…or Oklahoma, or Boston, or New York, or…and still believe that the course content has no application for the average Joe/Jane?
There are many lessons we can glean from what happened in Texas…
1.We have yet another example of a good guy with a handgun stopping a slaughter
The national media has gone to great lengths to try and discount the potential impact of someone with a firearm and the knowledge to use it making any positive difference in an intended mass-casualty event, but every time there is armed resistance present at the opening stages of an intended slaughter it turns out completely different to the plans of the bad guys. A sixty year old off-duty police officer armed with a handgun saw these two chuckleheads roll up and open fire…and apparently without hesitation he pulled his pistol out and used it to excellent effect. Kudos, sir. I hope you remain anonymous for the sake of your personal safety, but I think I speak for tens of millions of people when I say I’d like to buy you a beer and a few boxes of ammo. You. Rock.
2.Accurate fire is a force multiplier
Two dudes with AKs bent on slaughter versus one guy with a pistol is some pretty bad math on paper…but violence doesn’t happen on paper. In the real world the ability to put a bullet exactly where it needs to be exactly when it needs to be there can make the critical difference. From what I’m hearing, the good guy here fired his weapon with exceptional accuracy delivering hits on both terrorists that were almost instantaneously physiologically debilitating if not instantly mortal. If you want a handgun to make someone stop their violent actions, you have to put the bullets in important bits of their anatomy. There’s no better way to overcome being outnumbered and outgunned than putting bullets into the hearts and central nervous systems of the bad guys with lethal efficiency.
3. Bad guys travel in packs
The more dastardly the deed, the more likely the bastard wanting to do it will have help. Always assume there is one more.
4. You don’t get to pick when you need to use your gun. The bad guys decide when you need to use your gun
Granted the nature of this event made the possibility of a violent attack a bit more visible, but I’d wager that the officer working security that morning probably didn’t expect that with all the SWAT studs in attendance that he would be the guy dropping the hammer on a couple of terrorists if any showed up. Life dropped a big ol’ bucket of jihad right in his lap and to his credit he responded immediately and effectively. Again, sir, bravo. If we had scorecards, even the French judges would be holding up 10.0.
5. The people on the front lines of these type of events are often pretty “ordinary” folks
If this were a movie, the terrorists would have been engaged by well-equipped SWAT officers in a dramatic shootout complete with lots of pyrotechnics and a bitchin’ electric guitar solo in the background. In reality it was a traffic officer not too far from retirement age that was confronted with the need to do battle with ISIS-inspired scumbags. Extraordinary violence almost always happens to ordinary people.So to believe that only ninjas have to worry about being able to make an accurate shot under a pretty stiff time constraint, or that only SWAT/JSOC studs need to have ready access to the tools and knowledge to deal with casualties and potential explosive devices seems pretty silly to me. If stuff goes down in front of you, you are on your own for what may well be the rest of your life.
I have a lot of questions about this event, too…like how a dude who has already been convicted on terrorism related charges is walking around a free enough man to get guns and tweet about attacking this event without our massive surveillance state doing anything proactively to prevent him from doing so…but that’s another rant. Erm, “article” for another time.
For now, I encourage you to look hard at the “unthinkable” elements from this event. Those who think it’s “unthinkable” that they would ever be in the middle of a terrorist attack should probably reconsider given that the scumbags busy cutting a murderous rampage across the globe have promised more. Those who believe it is “unthinkable” that one guy with a pistol can make a difference in such an event should probably get their head right, too.
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