Perfect training? a live-fire house with pop- up Ivans targets, but I know that isn't feasible for most people. I personally do the airsoft thing, most of the time setting up one fire-team as agressors or opfor and letting the other two teams clear the building. Almost everyone has their own airsoft at work, and this is a pretty cheap and easy method of training against moving, breathing, thinking targets. It's also the only time we don't train in full gear. I make them wear pt shorts and a skivie shirt, nothing else. That way you'll know from the d#$% or s%$^ whether they've been hit or not. I don't like training without full gear, but this is a special case.
Be advised, however, that my training doesn't focus that much on accuracy. It focuses mainly on tactics and techniques of their movement through the objective, and also geometry of fires. I'll be frank in saying that most of our marksmanship training is done through live-fire EMP and shoot houses. I like the treadmill training idea for marksmanship, though. I have never thought of doing that, so I learned something today. One more reason why FLF is here for us. I think it would be a great technique for someone that doesn't have the resources LE or military has. I have nothing against the dry firing with a laser sight, it seems like a good tool for some people who don't get to shoot dynamicly and clear an entire house or town. I really like the airsoft on a treadmill idea, also. I may incorperate that in my own training for skill maintanance. It also just sounds plain fun.
Last thing, I'm not knocking lasers. Especially on a pistol. On a rifle? questionable. The Marine Corps uses an infrared laser sight called a peq-2 or peq-4. It's only visible through NVGs. We honestly don't rely on it heavily to shoot with, but it is awesome to mark targets for close air support. It's great just to mark a target for your squad at night, as far as that goes. Lasers have their purpose, but they are not the be all end all.
Meanwhile, I'm going to go and set up my treadmill targets and go for a jog. Thanks for the input skyguy
Be advised, however, that my training doesn't focus that much on accuracy. It focuses mainly on tactics and techniques of their movement through the objective, and also geometry of fires. I'll be frank in saying that most of our marksmanship training is done through live-fire EMP and shoot houses. I like the treadmill training idea for marksmanship, though. I have never thought of doing that, so I learned something today. One more reason why FLF is here for us. I think it would be a great technique for someone that doesn't have the resources LE or military has. I have nothing against the dry firing with a laser sight, it seems like a good tool for some people who don't get to shoot dynamicly and clear an entire house or town. I really like the airsoft on a treadmill idea, also. I may incorperate that in my own training for skill maintanance. It also just sounds plain fun.
Last thing, I'm not knocking lasers. Especially on a pistol. On a rifle? questionable. The Marine Corps uses an infrared laser sight called a peq-2 or peq-4. It's only visible through NVGs. We honestly don't rely on it heavily to shoot with, but it is awesome to mark targets for close air support. It's great just to mark a target for your squad at night, as far as that goes. Lasers have their purpose, but they are not the be all end all.
Meanwhile, I'm going to go and set up my treadmill targets and go for a jog. Thanks for the input skyguy