What should I be practising before taking Black Badge Course?

Quigley said:
Prepping the trigger as you extend your arms out to index the target is an advanced technique. Prepping the trigger before you even extend your arms (as you have suggested) is a bad idea...to put it mildly.

In either event...not something you should be suggesting to a prospective BB student.
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With all the thousands of pics we took at the Provincials and others I know I have a good Picture for this, but this is all I could find right now, Notice that the finger is nowhere near the trigger....and it won't be until the draw is 95% finished, I generally don't touch the trigger until it's fully mounted.
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Thanks for the kind words guys.
The only thing getting your finger on the trigger early will possibly get you is the bill from Dairy Queen at the end of the rest of your crews day when they have finished shooting.
 
I am writing this out of curiosity not to stir the pot or offend anyone. I took my black badge course in 87 thats 1987 and shot actively until 93-94 when i got out of it. I did not have the cash at the time to keep up with the "arms race" and pretty well got out of shooting at that time. I got back into hand gunning a few years ago and have decided to compete in other disciplines. Enough for the back ground. My question is why during the black badge course (now as in 87) is there time limits on the courses of fire. I understand teaching basic techniques and especially safety (i learned lots, all those years ago). In "MY" opinion as long as a shooter demonstrates proper technique and does everything safely why does he have to meet a "standard" many find this intimidating and see IPSC as kinda elitist for it. I know a person who cannot meet the time limits would not be very competitive but as long as he/she is doing it safe why not let them shoot.

Again I am not trying to start an argument of bash on IPSC ( i had great fun when i participated) but am trying to find out the reasoning behind this requirement.

Thanks in advance for the constructive answers to come.

Andy
 
Well not much has changed, there are still time time limits as listed above.
I would put forth that it trains the shooter to be able to preform safely under pressure. As I am sure your aware during a course of fire, the stress and pile up and people can do odd and dumb things.
 
And I think if they don't have it in 1987, and they have it now is for some reason.

Perform safely under time pressure is one thing my BB instructors had mentioned at the course.:)
 
the main thing you should work on is a list of original excuses. The BB insturctors have heard them all so if you can come up with something good it will make their day more enjoyable
 
The idea of seeing how people perform under stress or pressure makes sense. I can see a person walk through if there is no limit then go totally nuts or dangerous with pressure so i guess it makes sense. Thanks for the input people.
Andy
 
Number of rounds for a Black Badge Course

I would advise you to bring at least 500 rounds.


cableguy said:
Yes....you'll need to bring your own ammo.
Depends who's teaching the course.
You'll probably use most ammo on the second day....bring about 250-300 rds.
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Unfortunately there's a lot of that happening at Black Badge courses. The only person that should be "instructing" a student is the instructor. Anyone else who's helping is there to watch the firing line for safety only.


maka said:
I thought the BB was a safety and competency course. I didn't know it was the instructors job to tell all his students how they do it. When I took my BB there was 1 main instructor and 5 helpers. each with there own way of doing things. Very frustrating
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Hi;

The actual reason for the time limits are due to the origin of the sport or practical shooitng. Being a "gunfighting" sport, and one that used to be very "practical" in nature, the time limit on the stages was there to induce a little "anxiety". Not stress, but anxiety, and there's a difference. Since the sport was "practical" in nature, it was reasonable to assume that the course should have some time limits as a real gunfight does.

Also, because of the way the "hit factor" is calculated in the results, it is important to learn how to shoot with some degree of spped in order to score well at an IPSC match.

I hope that explains it properly.


ampegor said:
I am writing this out of curiosity not to stir the pot or offend anyone. I took my black badge course in 87 thats 1987 and shot actively until 93-94 when i got out of it. I did not have the cash at the time to keep up with the "arms race" and pretty well got out of shooting at that time. I got back into hand gunning a few years ago and have decided to compete in other disciplines. Enough for the back ground. My question is why during the black badge course (now as in 87) is there time limits on the courses of fire. I understand teaching basic techniques and especially safety (i learned lots, all those years ago). In "MY" opinion as long as a shooter demonstrates proper technique and does everything safely why does he have to meet a "standard" many find this intimidating and see IPSC as kinda elitist for it. I know a person who cannot meet the time limits would not be very competitive but as long as he/she is doing it safe why not let them shoot.

Again I am not trying to start an argument of bash on IPSC ( i had great fun when i participated) but am trying to find out the reasoning behind this requirement.

Thanks in advance for the constructive answers to come.

Andy
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Walter Hornby said:
there are a number of problems with people "practising" before a BB course. the first one is that they usually do not know how to properly grip a gun. i have seen every type of grip on a BB course up to and including a "homey" grip.

The next problem is that most people draw a gun and swing it up instead of bringing it to the centre of the body and punching it out.

it gets very frustrating for a student to have the instructor always saying grip and punch it out.

While it is nice to have a student to be familiar with his handgun and to be able to hit an IPSC target at 20 meters, it can get very time consuming to have to correct bad habits. the worse case scenario i had was a fellow who had a IPSC shooter with one year experience try to teach him what he needed to know to pass his BB course. he could not hit an IPSC target at 7 meters with any constituency. it took 800 rounds to fix everything which is the most rounds i have ever had used in a BB course (normally i run around 400 on average.)

I would really suggest that before you practise anything you have an instructor show you the basics.
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This is very good advice....
 
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