Instructor Development – Pistol Mounted Optics
Pistol Mounted Optics (PMO) aren’t the future; they are now and they are here and in the last decade technology has enhanced the reliability and durability of the Handgun mounted optic for duty and self-defense use.
This instructor development course focuses on teaching the instructor how to teach optics within the Modern Technique. The course material takes legal and human factors into consideration while addressing what does and doesn’t change with the PMO. Teaching new students on the Pistol Mounted Optic presents unique problems for students learning to acquire the red dot with the dominant and non-dominant hand and while firing multiple shots. Objective based training techniques will be utilized to get maximum performance from the students while using a PMO.
Topics to be covered will be presenting the optic, changing visual attention and focus, blocked and broken optics.
Topic covered:
- Review the types of red dots and mounting options
- Training considerations
- Policy considerations
- How to properly sight in (zero)
- Equipment inspection and maintenance
- Advantages and limitations of a pistol mounted sight
- Application of marksmanship fundamentals review
- Holdover/offset
- Down Optic Drills
- Alternative Positions
- Using a Pistol mounted sight around barriers
- Single Hand Shooting
- Multiple shot considerations
- Shooting on the move
- Multiple target engagement techniques
- Establishing performance based training the PMO
*Important Note: Assigned as an instructor or RSO at your agency, organization, shooting range or club.
This was my 4th class at Gunsite and by far the best one yet!! I learned and experienced so much, that I am actually still fully processing everything and connecting the dots. :-) There is so much more that I could write, but the allotted space...
