Originally posted by deSelys
I've done a training IPSC-like session last saturday and I've had a blast.
I did it with my personal Glock 17 (I know, factor minor, booooh!) and I didn't made a fool out of myself. Although I need to learn to shoot faster and shoot while moving.
I was curious to know if OCers had experience in this type of shooting.
We never had any official matches, sanctioned by anyone where something is won, but we did have IPSC like department competitions.. under the guise of "training" so it was all paid for... the "Gas Co" range was the live fire training, but the dorks from LAPee wee, er I mean LAPD rolled a patrol car into a ditch, and shot up a few black & whites by accident... we never let em off the hook for that.
We used to also bring targets of little kids holding ice cream or lollypops.. to harass the School police.
We used our Dept issues S&W 645 .45s, MP5s, AR-15.. anything we had in the armoury, as Borat would say "Sexy time", all day spent shooting at stuff, diving in the dirt, driving around blasting targets from inside the unit... getting paid time 1/2..
I also went through the Orange , LA and Riverside counties Sheriffs IPSC motivated lazer villages, which we all amazingly fun. Not live fire though. The OC laser village is state of the art complete with cars, buildings and Marines from Pendleton as role players... Marine MPs were also training with us.
Heres what the OC laser village looks like:
http://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/ondisplay/emergency/exhibit/es7.htmlDuring training, the streets are full of role players... with "teh bad guy" somewhere in the mix, we got into some crazy "OK corral" shoot outs that were fun.
There was a reporter from the San Gabriel Valley Trib at the OC laser village who shot everyone, kids, old ladies, even an old yeller looking dog... but the armed suspect. At one point you're entering a ghetto apartment and a kid pops out pointing an x-box like controller at you, the reporter shot him in the face ... oops.
