Reduction Drills

At In-Service, we started range with a cold qual.

Our mags refilled, we honed our skills, shooting at four inch shapes at seven yards, two handed at first, then one handed; strong hand first, off hand next.

With one hand, firing bladed is best, but it exposes the arm hole of the vest leaving the heart and lungs vulnerable.

We shoot square, knees bent, leaning in, arm slightly canted.

Then, began the malfunction reduction drills, a familiar refresher with two hands, but difficult with one: How to strip a mag, Empty reload, How to defeat a double feed.

Racking a slide on a leather holster with ramped sights is no easy feat.

The First Rule of Policing applies to our day at the range: Overcome your problem, return to the fight, go home.

The training reflects our job, it’s not about what’s likely to happen, but the potential of what can occur.