Thread: Going to give pistol shooting a go

Originally Posted by Towely

Savage1 is a cop. That's about as under trained as you will get! His opinion on drawing from a holster and the other stuff that goes along with a pistolNz holster course is worthless!

By that logic then all of your opinions on using pistols in real world situations, not pretend situations, is equally worthless.

Have you had any direct experience with police firearms training, initial and regular?

Thanks @seano , I didn't realise there was more involved in the course than just holster use.

Originally Posted by Savage1

By that logic then all of your opinions on using pistols in real world situations, not pretend situations, is equally worthless.

Have you had any direct experience with police firearms training, initial and regular?

Thanks @seano , I didn't realise there was more involved in the course than just holster use.

Police firearms training has improved a lot in recent years (perhaps because a mate, who was one of the initial very small group that got IPSC started in NZ, is a Police firearms trainer). I shot the Police pistol course at Porirua Police College back when they were still using .38 Spec S&W Model 10 revolvers, and observed the pistol training in progress. I found the course very easy and 'cleaned' it with both the revolver, and then my .45 auto. The recruits were not showing good results at all, and I put that down to group training rather than 1 on 1. I think now more emphasis is placed on firearms training than it was back in the '80's when it was considered by many recruits to be a 'chore' rather than a survival skill.