Training with your "tactical" shootzgun

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So, many of us here have fancy looking street sweepers and such with lights and bells and things that go boom ;)....

What I'm curious about is how we are training with them.. Or.. are you? :p

Serious question here, as I know I'd like to get more trigger time on the shotgun in a "non-clay pigeon" environment :D

I have completed several "tactical shotgun" courses at various ranges over the years, and am sort of looking for some ideas on how others have trained with their shotgun and how I could adapt some drills to my own range here.

Barricades? Types of targets?? Fire and movement? Slicing the pie?? etc etc..
 
El Presidente is excellent for quick shot acquisition. Particularly if you have an autoloader (for double taps). Any setup that involves shooting on the move and shooting/reloading behind cover works well too. Try adding in some "friendly" or "hostage" targets and see how you do with slugs. Reloading under cover/duress is a great exercise that gets the blood pumping. There are some great IPSC courses of fire that involve or exclusively feature shotguns. All of this is well and good if your range is flexible and allows it. When I lived by Brooks the range there was great for that sort of thing. Red Deer Shooting Sports when it was open was great, too, as it had blue barrels that you could setup stages with, until their Fudd community banned shotguns from that range. Here, there are too many Fudds out at the range at all times of the year to really do much "combat shotgunning".
Have fun.
 
Fortunately, the range I will be practicing this at will be my own backyard.. LOL
Good suggestions, some of this stuff I've done, some I haven't.
I think I'll be spending a bit of time building some barriers over the winter here.

Thanks for the input.
 
Just starting out with "training". First thing I decided I wanted to do was fast target identification and moving targets while loading on the fly.

So we have 3 jugs hanging from a wire all painted different colors, and a clay thrower.

2 rounds in the gun and a full side saddle. (using commercial target load for now due to the price).

The person operating the thrower will unexpectedly throw 2 birds low, upon hitting those (or missing as sometimes the case may be), we go to combat reload, during that the "thrower" calls out a target which I have to engage weather its blue, yellow, or orange.

Once we got better at it, we were finding we could get a combat reload in before the second clay hit the ground if we missed.


But that is how I am practicing with my shotty in my back yard.
 
If you realy want to challenge yourself, try shooting your coarse of fire using weak hand/arm only. Including reloads.Another great thing to do and we have used this often with strong shooters, is shoot a string or two single arm as if to represent a wounded or otherwise incapicited limb. Oh yeh..include a reload or two in there also. These are great drills, especialy with a pump action.
 
Plink said:
So, many of us here have fancy looking street sweepers and such with lights and bells and things that go boom ;)....

What I'm curious about is how we are training with them.. Or.. are you? :p

Serious question here, as I know I'd like to get more trigger time on the shotgun in a "non-clay pigeon" environment :D

I have completed several "tactical shotgun" courses at various ranges over the years, and am sort of looking for some ideas on how others have trained with their shotgun and how I could adapt some drills to my own range here.

Barricades? Types of targets?? Fire and movement? Slicing the pie?? etc etc..
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Nutnfancy style run and gun ?
 
jassoplau said:
"Tactical"?? Try shooting at moving targets:rolleyes:
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Yup, this is pretty much it. I am pretty pro at transitions, reloads of all kinds, slug changeovers, shooting fast, shooting from all positions, one handed manipulation, etc but then I go to shoot trap and I suck (well, I'm not horrible but it's a vast difference compared to how good I am when the target is just sitting there).

Moving targets really really really take things to the next level. I'm glad I have strong fundamentals (did I mention I'm pro at all the static stuff? LOL) but it really reminds me of how much better I can be.
 
Some great ideas here. Thanks. Completely forgot the strong hand weak hand and "injury" ideas. :)

I wonder how I could get moving targets built on the cheap.. LOL :D


I wish we didn't have such stupid pistol laws, it would be nice to be able to use both the shotgun and the pistol.... However, I'd need to go to the range to do this.
 
natesfitness said:
What about some long range slug work? 100+ yards?
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From a Policing standpoint, would that not be an unethical application for this system? I am asking, not the ethics police. I have never really shot slugs beyond 50m and I have only shot about 100 of them in my lifetime. Even with optics would this not be stretching the limits?
 
people main issue is reloading under stress, reloading and shootging when there is a barrier.
Tac shotgun is my main thing and have been doing it fo alot of years, but you have to reload evey second you not shooting , if you gaming V doing it for real, that meen reloading for cover .
You may want to do lots of left of barrier week side shoting.
Low and prone shooting as well as tac reloads
how you place you ammo on the firearms is allso very important.
Come to one of the One shot tactical shotgun courses and you will be supprised at what you dont know! And what earl can show you.
Earl will come to you if you have a range and a group of people.
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badboybeeson said:
people main issue is reloading under stress, reloading and shootging when there is a barrier.
Tac shotgun is my main thing and have been doing it fo alot of years, but you have to reload evey second you not shooting , if you gaming V doing it for real, that meen reloading for cover .
You may want to do lots of left of barrier week side shoting.
Low and prone shooting as well as tac reloads
how you place you ammo on the firearms is allso very important.
Come to one of the One shot tactical shotgun courses and you will be supprised at what you dont know! And what earl can show you.
Earl will come to you if you have a range and a group of people.
bbb
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I found that reloading under stress / on the move is the toughest thing to overcome at first. Most people want to STOP right in the middle of their run for cover and start popping in shells.. LOL

I'll do a lot of right of barrier weak side shooting ;) and prone as well. Prone with slugs on a short shotgun is quite interesting.. LOL

And, you are so right, one thing with a shotgun, if you aren't shooting, you should be reloading.. Damn things run dry wayyy to quick.

When is your course this year Simon?
 
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