1-Day Pistol RDS Critical Precision Course

Tactical Options Pistol Red Dot Sight Critical Precision Course is a 10-hour basic to intermediate level performance program designed to advance the individual’s knowledge of pistol fundamentals with a mounted RDS system, motor skills, and speed under a series of progressive teaching stages and drills.  Pistol RDS systems are, and have been, evolving as a more common primary pistol sight system within the shooting community. It is important to advance confidence in applying the RDS system with the correct fundamentals for the full achievement of precision shot placement in small hit variables.

Students will receive critical skills and knowledge through comprehensive building blocks of instructions and performance on a mounted pistol RDS. Therefore, shortcutting trials and errors of impractical and/or incorrect teaching methodologies and performance stages may limit or hurt the student being trained on the application of a mounted RDS system. These concepts are crucial in training students on the care and maintenance of Pistol RDS systems, efficient economy of motion techniques for sight acquisition and sight tracking during stress courses of fire, enhanced pistol fundamental application, and increased everyday readiness status. This program will prepare the student on accountability for applying their shot, tactics, and drills that focus on the sustainability of critical skillsets.

This 1-day program and course objectives include:

• Everyday mental readiness, individual weapon, and kit maintenance and preparation, kit/duty set up (principle vs shooters solution)
• RDS familiarization on technology, mounting, cleaning and care, optics adjustment buttons, weather and lighting considerations
• Enhanced RDS fundamental application and principle training path at various distances
• RDS precision shot accuracy drills that focus on grouping advancing to limited angle shots, HR shot requirements and low-percentage shot drills, active shooter precision shooting drills
• Sight tracking methods during presentation and cadence fire at various distances
• Target assessment and shot placement under stress at various distances and stages
• Multi-target engagement at various target formations, depths, and angles
• Mechanics and efficient economy of motion of pistol speed reload and tac-mag reloads with threat follow through while maintaining accountability of pistol RDS
• Pistol manipulation techniques on a pistol with and pistol mounted RDS on malfunction clearance procedures combined with recovery for rapid target engagement
• Failed pistol-mounted RDS to iron sight transition, sight acquisition, and precision target engagement
• Moving and shooting/shooting while moving at different angles and depths: RDS sight tracking
• Barricade occupation during threat engagements, clearance procedures, and pistol sight clearance awareness when breaking plains of cover or clearing unknown sectors
• Speed and accuracy drills requiring combinations of movement, cover barricade usage, shoot / no-shoot targets, stress on the performance of fundamentals, and individual’s assessment and execution
• Tactical shooting drills that advance skills for confined spacing and close-quarters environments
• Various body positions stressing pistol manipulation and shot accuracy
• Critical Task Evaluations speed and accuracy standards and execution

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Round Count:

• 500 training pistol rounds per student

Cost:

$325.00

Packing List: 

• Pistol system with mounted RDS system
• Spare batteries and mounting screws for pistol RDS (none will be provided)
• Minimal of 5 pistol magazines (will shorten reload times during active courses of fire)
• Duty belt, tac-belt, and / or concealment holsters inside or outside the belt (SERPA or stiff leather unauthorized)
• Range training clothing
• Ballistic tinted and clear eye protection
• Hearing protection (noise cancelling recommended)
• Gloves (optional)
• Note taking material (you will record your data)
• Weapons cleaning kit with lubricant (have Q-tips, optics mounting tools, lens wipes)
• Water and snacks
• Lunch (optional as an hour lunch break will be provided)
• Sunscreen
• Wet weather clothing (check weather)

Note: Contact the instructor with any questions you may have about additional items not listed.