Greetings,
Had a great IDPA match yesterday here in podunk Idaho. Our MD made a "Shooter Powered Mover" for this match, and of course it worked great. We had a range car this time too, arranged for the MGM Ironman 3-Gun. It is hard to get out of under stress.
As a side match, or more like side instruction we also had paintball FoF. There were two scenarios. In the first the good guy was walking along and was asked for money. There turned out to be three bad guys, and they tried to surround the good guy. If the good guy was too meek, he got robbed/shot with paint.
The second was based upon being at home. Late at night a knock on the door, with someone wanting to use the phone. If that failed, then the person wanted to get a drink of water, or use the bathroom, or whatever they could to say to get the good guy to open the door. There was another bad guy standing along the outside wall of the house out of sight.
I survived the home alone stage, because I simply do not open the door for strangers. Still they escalated but the bad guys left after I called 911. And eventhough this was a FoF instruction, some people actually opened the door. Some still survived, and some did not.
I wondered at the outset, just how FoF could realistically be done with paintball guns. The good guy had to carry the paintball gun muzzle down in their weak hand. Moving the gun to the strong hand meant that the good guy had drawn his/her concealed gun. The bad guys kept their paintball guns muzzke down, but in their strong hand. All the bad guys had to do was raise the muzzle. This gives the bad guy the advantage, which they almost always have at first in real life.
I must say it worked as instruction pretty well. Each good guy was debriefed afterword, to see what they would tell the responding police officer. Then their performance and after action report was critiqued. I mulled the two scenarios over and over for some time afterward. It makes you think.
I learned a lot, and got painted once. See the last pix in the group to see what a paint ball does from about 25 feet, through a light shirt.
Pix are at www.parmarng.org [Photos]
Your thoughts?
Ken Reed
Had a great IDPA match yesterday here in podunk Idaho. Our MD made a "Shooter Powered Mover" for this match, and of course it worked great. We had a range car this time too, arranged for the MGM Ironman 3-Gun. It is hard to get out of under stress.
As a side match, or more like side instruction we also had paintball FoF. There were two scenarios. In the first the good guy was walking along and was asked for money. There turned out to be three bad guys, and they tried to surround the good guy. If the good guy was too meek, he got robbed/shot with paint.
The second was based upon being at home. Late at night a knock on the door, with someone wanting to use the phone. If that failed, then the person wanted to get a drink of water, or use the bathroom, or whatever they could to say to get the good guy to open the door. There was another bad guy standing along the outside wall of the house out of sight.
I survived the home alone stage, because I simply do not open the door for strangers. Still they escalated but the bad guys left after I called 911. And eventhough this was a FoF instruction, some people actually opened the door. Some still survived, and some did not.
I wondered at the outset, just how FoF could realistically be done with paintball guns. The good guy had to carry the paintball gun muzzle down in their weak hand. Moving the gun to the strong hand meant that the good guy had drawn his/her concealed gun. The bad guys kept their paintball guns muzzke down, but in their strong hand. All the bad guys had to do was raise the muzzle. This gives the bad guy the advantage, which they almost always have at first in real life.
I must say it worked as instruction pretty well. Each good guy was debriefed afterword, to see what they would tell the responding police officer. Then their performance and after action report was critiqued. I mulled the two scenarios over and over for some time afterward. It makes you think.
I learned a lot, and got painted once. See the last pix in the group to see what a paint ball does from about 25 feet, through a light shirt.
Pix are at www.parmarng.org [Photos]
Your thoughts?
Ken Reed
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