Denny Hansen
Staff Emeritus
Last week I attend the Carbine Advanced Tactical Problems (CATP course at Gunsite. Range Master was Pat Rogers and coaches were Ben Lenett and Tim Lau.
I used a pre-ban Olympic Arms carbine equipped with an EOTech 512 and SureFire X200 on the bottom rail with a vertical foregrip. Pistol was a Kimber TLE/RL, also equipped with the X200.
The first day was spent on review of gunhandling procedures. The MEU (SOC) carbine and pistol courses were fired each morning. This is a great course of fire as it incorporates many shooting positions, shooting on the move and transitioning to the secondary weapon.
The remainder of each day was spent on numerous runs through outdoor and indoor simulators using two-man team tactics. Since there were an uneven number of students, I lucked out and my “partner” and I made several three-man runs, which added to the complexity of the problems. Having more guns up front is a good thing, but also pushes the student to be even more aware than normal about safety issues, muzzle awareness, etc.
The course required 660 rounds of .223 ball and 460 rounds of .223 frangible, though I fired about 800 and 300 respectively. Also required are 150 rounds of pistol ball and 50 rounds of pistol frang. I used about 200 rounds of ball, but only ended up firing one round of frangible pistol ammo. This last due to 1) my carbine never malfunctioned on a simulator run and 2) I was able to tac load it and didn’t need to transition to the handgun.
The final day was spent on numerous force-on-force exercises using Simunitions. The class rotated between good guy and bad guy roles so we could get a good look at situations from both sides of the muzzle.
I plan to write a complete review of the course in an upcoming issue of S.W.A.T.
I highly recommend Gunsite’s CATP course. Pat is a superb instructor, and his coaches are always top notch as well.
Denny
I used a pre-ban Olympic Arms carbine equipped with an EOTech 512 and SureFire X200 on the bottom rail with a vertical foregrip. Pistol was a Kimber TLE/RL, also equipped with the X200.
The first day was spent on review of gunhandling procedures. The MEU (SOC) carbine and pistol courses were fired each morning. This is a great course of fire as it incorporates many shooting positions, shooting on the move and transitioning to the secondary weapon.
The remainder of each day was spent on numerous runs through outdoor and indoor simulators using two-man team tactics. Since there were an uneven number of students, I lucked out and my “partner” and I made several three-man runs, which added to the complexity of the problems. Having more guns up front is a good thing, but also pushes the student to be even more aware than normal about safety issues, muzzle awareness, etc.
The course required 660 rounds of .223 ball and 460 rounds of .223 frangible, though I fired about 800 and 300 respectively. Also required are 150 rounds of pistol ball and 50 rounds of pistol frang. I used about 200 rounds of ball, but only ended up firing one round of frangible pistol ammo. This last due to 1) my carbine never malfunctioned on a simulator run and 2) I was able to tac load it and didn’t need to transition to the handgun.
The final day was spent on numerous force-on-force exercises using Simunitions. The class rotated between good guy and bad guy roles so we could get a good look at situations from both sides of the muzzle.
I plan to write a complete review of the course in an upcoming issue of S.W.A.T.
I highly recommend Gunsite’s CATP course. Pat is a superb instructor, and his coaches are always top notch as well.
Denny