O.K. You asked .... 1. I could care less what people at Glock Talk or any other forum take seriously about what I post. If you have issue with what I post then you should speak up!

Hey, thanks for getting back with your specific objections! Sounds like you've already noticed that many of the instructors over at GT, full-time and otherwise, have been taking your posts with a, 'grain of salt'. As a favor to you I've already pointed out that much of what you write, too often, comes across as strongly self-serving.
2. I hope people take the DCJS Instructor seriously I earned it from the Virginia Dept of Criminal Justice Services I am not only an Instructor but an Instructor Trainer. I am also Maryland State Police Handgun Instructor Certified, NRA etc, etc.
OK, fine, are you also the guy who trained that other famous government agent .... What's his name, again, Lee Paige? (Hard to believe that public tax dollars actually paid for that kind of crappy government firearms training, isn't it!) By the way, there isn't a certified NRA firearms instructor on the planet who would have made the series of dangerous and stupid mistakes that DEA agent made with a gun - Not one!
The pictures you post do not represent proper sight picture. In order to get accurate hits on target the shoot must use the TOP edge of the front sight and line it up exactly with the target. In the pictures that were posted the shooter would be shooting low.
Well, Tom, it took a lot of courage to write that! Of course they do! As a matter of fact I got them from another instructor over at GT who is presently retired from a long career as both a police armorer and trainer. Those sight pictures were good enough for him; and, they were also good enough for several people who have repeatedly posted them at GT - Where nobody else has ever objected to them. (Except, of course, you!)
I'd like to know: Where are you getting that sight picture spiel from anyway? Forgive me for being so blunt; but, it's pure corn!
First, no two pistols will shoot quite the same way. So, before you make an irrevocable statement on, 'exactly' where the sights should be, the first thing you need to know is the gun you're using. (They don't all shoot to the same point-of-aim!)
Second, when you're moving at speed, a low hold on a humanoid target is actually a very good thing. (If you were quicker with a pistol - at distance - you'd already know this!)
No! You should NOT be working with the top edge of the front sight. I have to suspect that this kind of sloppy pistol training is the effective reason, 'Why' so many so-called professionals generally miss the majority of their rapid-fire follow-up shots. Do you realize what you're actually telling me? (You are training people to use a pistol from within very close range; and, it's taking your students way too long to get off effective second and third shots.)
If you really were an expert pistol instructor you'd already know that it takes well developed proprioceptive reflexes, fast hands, and a well conditioned recoil response in order to SETTLE THE FRONT SIGHT INTO THE REAR NOTCH before you take any rapid fire follow-up shot. (You know what I'm talking about .... the shots that better than 90% of pistol shooters always throw away!)
Who cares about, 'exactly' where the top edge of the front sight is! When you're shooting at speed it's the whole sight picture that really matters. Settle-in your front sight and follow the target with the muzzle. (If you watch any of the really good civilian shooters handle a pistol you can see exactly what I'm talking about in the rapid fire shot dispersion that takes place on their targets.)
In my own (albeit humble) experience, 'exact' sight alignment is not an expression that any rapid fire CQB pistol instructor should be using.
The handgun correction charts are in my opinion worthless.
Of course you hold this opinion. Your response is entirely predictable! Most of the internet gun jocks I've encountered don't like those charts. Kind 'a makes you wonder, 'Why' The Army Marksmanship Unit ever bothered to create them - Doesn't it!
Still, I have to suspect that those same charts have brought more novice shooters along a lot faster, and saved many thousands of rounds of, what would have otherwise been, wasted ammunition. Those charts work; and they work well - Period! (It's just that, 'gun heroes' don't usually like them.)
There are three (3) things that matter for a shooter to get accurate hits on target.
1. Grip
2. Front Sight Picture
3. Trigger Control This is 75% of all shooters errors.
OK, that's good! You did better on this one; and, you're more than half right, too. It's wonderful to see you acknowledge that grip is important. The last guy I got into an internet argument with on this subject was completely unwilling to admit that much. (Because he, obviously, didn't know!)
Let me offer you this: Trigger control does NOT represent 75% of all shooting errors; and, I've got more than 50 years of shooting experience that says so. Trigger control is the very last physical symptom in a long chain of incorrect proprioceptive reflexes that finally manifests itself with the trigger being, somehow, incorrectly pulled ('pressed') and the shot going wrong. It's, also, been my lifelong experience that if you really know how to hold a pistol, then, proper trigger control is easy!
Let’s get one more thing straight I don’t play expert. I work full time as a firearms instructor. Teaching for MVM OCONUS Ops. Blackwater USA. And I am the Training Director for Commonwealth Criminal Justice Academy. I very seldom teach civilians most of my work is Govt, Military and L.E. I don’t just teach on the weekends to make extra money.
Here, I have to differ with you. Whether you consciously realize it or not, you do, 'play expert'. You had no real business jumping into a simple informational post like the one I wrote and making those, 'mysterious remarks'. Your reply remains as rude as it is provocative. That is a post which has, by the way, often been praised whenever I or someone else like me has chosen to present it in the past.
(And, I have to think that deep down inside you actually agree because, after all, you did end your original comments with a, 'disclaimer'.)
Anyone can repost pictures of someone else’s work. I may be controversial but I have to be, you see when I train people to fight with a handgun they have a 100% chance of having to use it in a real world conflict. You have a standing invite to attend any training class I am teaching for FREE to see if I can walk the walk not just talk the talk.

A 100% chance! Wow, what can I say? Here, I'm clearly in over my head. Sure, I've had to face a few bad hombres in my time; but, gee, I've never had to actually train any of them. What's next? Are we supposed to exchange internet war stories, or something?
Couple of questions for you:
Are you a full time Firearms Instructor?
If not what do you do for a living?
How many years have you been teaching?
What Certifications do you besides NRA?
Are you a IDPA or IPSIC ranked Shooter?
If so what ranking?
Don't you worry about me. I ain't nobody; but, someone you chose to insult on the internet; and, common sense, would indicate that's the way we should keep it. In the future, if you stay away from my posts in the same way I've been staying away from yours, well then, we'll get along fine.
P.S. Love your tag line at the bottom of your post!
Yes, I knew that you would! It's just that I'm getting older; and, I'm really sick and tired of all this internet ego confrontation crap. Originally, I came onto this website because I hoped the manners might be better on a smaller firearms website; however, I'm quickly learning that people are people, and my time might be better spent attempting to teach others how to be more Christian rather than just better with a gun.
