Handgun Survival
Many criminals and terrorists use guns to intimidate or injure their victims. Even in areas with strict gun control laws the laws can do nothing to prevent a determined criminal or terrorist from using firearms to commit acts of violence. This “reality” is precisely why the Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection system is inundated with firearm survival techniques, tactics, and scenarios in every course. To make your training more realistic a variety of training tools are needed: plastic or rubber replica handguns and air guns that shoot a 6mm plastic projectile. Thus, the goal of this course is twofold. The first is to teach you how to properly handle and use a handgun, and the second is to teach you how to safely use an air gun for RBPP scenarios.
You will be shown the Equipment that you need for the training and you will be issued safety equipment.
Before you even pick up a training gun you will learn Gun Safety. Since the training area is also considered the “gun range,” you will be given the Range Safety Rules. You’ll learn terms like cold range, hot range, muzzle discipline, and RSO. These are the same rules known on any police or military firearms range the world over.
Then comes the hands-on portion of the course with Weapon Familiarization. You will learn the Weapon Nomenclature, that is to say the parts of the weapon, for the semi-automatic pistol and the revolver.
Next will be Weapon Handling where you will determine you’re Dominant Eye for shooting, learn the proper Grip, and how to avoid Negligent Discharges by Indexing. Right after that you’ll be demonstrated each of the Standing Shooting Positions and get into each one of them yourself: the Low Ready Stance, High Ready Stance, and the Extended Time Ready Stance. With all of these stances comes proper Trigger Pull for various situations: Single Fire, Controlled Pair, Double Tap and Triple Tap.
After learning about Drawing the Weapon and Reholstering you’ll learn Target Acquisition. Along with this are legal issue concerns.
The next group of positions you will learn to shoot from are the Ground Shooting Positions. These include the Kneeling, Sitting, Back, and Prone positions.
Once you have a good grasp of the basics the next step is learning Movement with a handgun. Several firearms drills will help you do them smoothly and confidently. For good defense you get more training in taking Cover & Concealment. You’ll learn how to go around Corners where the bad guy may be waiting for you on the other side, and how to do Building Searches; such as your own home that a criminal has broken into. Techniques include Dynamic entry, Stealth, the Jim Wagner Threshold Peak, leading to the Position of Advantage, Low-light Use of Light and Sweeping.
What about if you do find a bad guy in your home or business? Whether you are armed or unarmed you need may have to control the intruder. This is why you will learn Subject Contact & Control.
To finish up your training you go through a few more important firearms drills like Body Shielding, the Interference Engagement, and Firefight.
Again, this course does not qualify you to go out and start using a real firearm. You must get professional range training for that. However, this course will make you much safer when doing Reality-Based Personal Protection scenarios with your training tools.
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