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Front Sight Trip Part III: Day Two
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Front Sight Trip Part IIIDay TwoAfter sleeping like a rock for six hours, I was up and about at 0600 and ready to face my second day at Front Sight. I showered and shaved then walked down to the casino restaurant and had some more of that good `ole Nevada breakfast buffet! MmmmmmmmMmmmmm!At about 0645, I hopped into my car and made the 15-mile drive to Front Sight. Ten minutes later I was standing at Range Seven, loading up extra magazines and mingling with my fellow students. Class started promptly at 0800. We warmed up with more dry practice drills for the first hour or so. The rest of the morning was spent doing slow, controlled, live-fire exercises. Double taps to the thoracic cavity, followed by precision follow-up shots to the cranio-ocular cavity. At noon thirty, we were dismissed for lunch, where I took the opportunity to dine on some of Uncle Sam's finest MRE's. Note to self: Never eat anything labeled "Beef Frankfurters". Especially when it's coming out of a vacuum sealed bag. Blech.The 1330 lecture for the day was on The Color Codes Of Mental Awareness and Stopping Power. (I was wrong: Day One's lecture was on The Moral and Ethical Decisions Associated With The Use Of Deadly Force.) I'm sure most of you are familiar with the Color Code's that Bill Cooper made famous. If you've never heard of the Color Code system before, you're missing out. Here's a link: http://combative.www6.50megs.com/cc_color.htm Once the lecture was over and we were settled back at Range Seven, Instructor Fisher introduced the class to the wonderful world of malfunction clearances. We learned how to quickly assess and repair all three types of malfunctions, then to quickly follow up with well-placed thoracic cavity hits. After we had practiced malfunction clearances until our hands were bleeding (literally, in my case), Instructor Fisher decided to turn up the heat a little bit. We would be clearing malfunctions and then firing our thoracic cavity shots like before, but now we were going to be doing it against the clock while firing on rotating targets. We were given just under two seconds to clear a type one or two malfunction and fire our thoracic cavity shots. Type three malfunctions, also known as the double-feed, were given an extra three seconds to clear and fire....and hit. Once we had more or less mastered the basic principles of clearing and firing at conversational distances, we moved back to the 15-meter mark to try our luck. By the time we had progressed back to 25 meters, it was starting to get dark out so we called it a day. I didn't have the energy to have dinner with any of my new friends, so I did the unthinkable and hit McDonald's Drive-Thru for a quick "meal". I scarfed down the crap and settled down into bed fully-dressed and armed. I think I was out in less than twenty seconds.To Be Continued...
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