Pat Mac’s Basic Pistol Drill for Beginners

[@californiawashinable]

I went to the Asymmetric Warfare school in VA in 2010 and they still ran your shooting drill as part of the curriculum. Returned to the 25th ID 3bde with some motivation for 3/4 Cavalry. We need constant trickle down in our force. Thanks.

[@nickwardwell2318]

What troop were you with? I was in Comanche Trp. 2013

[@preston1022]

Cav Scouts are 🌈

[@joshroten3997]

PatMac always does such a good job of focusing the students attention to the key points of any drill. There is always more information being introduced at the same time, but as a quality instructor he knows it is up to him to separate the key points from the rest so the students can focus on those key points.

[@jeffhouse9387]

Mac is such a great instructor. He can dumb it down or drop deep knowledge with ANY level of shooter.

[@jasestrong]

Such a cool dude ! We are blessed in this country to have warriors of this caliber defending us! Thank you SGM Mac!

[@n3qdz]

Pat is master! Matching the energy to the class. If Pat went around “burn it to the ground mode” the class would have been too intimidated to learn what he really wanted to be teaching which is a super strong foundation. Once you have that you can work your way up to “burn it to the ground mode” one of these day I will make it to a Mac class!

[@ClergetMusic]

I am not sure if Pat has any formal education training, but his instruction ticks several of the boxes for good classroom instruction. There is a best practice model called the “Hunter Model for Mastery Learning,” and I am able to identify several parts of it in his instruction. For example, he uses the overall structure of Direct Instruction, Guided Practice, and Independent Practice. During Guided Practice, he uses the trimodal hear/see/do approach. Then, he assesses the students during the Independent Practice phase and offers remedial correction when necessary. He circulates among the students like a trained classroom teacher. If Pat doesn’t have official training as a teacher, he naturally understands what students need to succeed.

[@parklloyd6690]

Pat, thanks for this. I went to the range yesterday with a DA/SA pistol and was doing two-shot groups, slow enough to deliberately reset with a goal of a quicker double shot. For the DA part, I was saying “sight, sight, squeeze, squeeze,” and then after the shot “realign, reset” and then pull again. It felt a lot smoother and I got better results. Thanks for great content! Cheers!

[@steveb8001]

Pats a fantastic instructor

[@MrYournamehere4202]

The realign and reset part of the drill is probably the most important part of the drill, but also probably the most skipped over part, for me at least... Something to keep in the memory bank.. Many thanks Pat!

[@fountainofyouth5]

What a great teacher, outstanding stuff, sir!

[@Gunge-vq2ik]

BRILLIANCE IN THE BASICS!! LOVE IT THANK YOU PAT!!!

[@deepzone31]

Zen and the art of one mag warmups. With a cameo of the back of Costa's head.

[@xSP3CTREx]

Laying some knowledge on us, appreciate it brother!

[@janpurisco6886]

amazing instruction! thank you for sharing this!

[@phileds1736]

Strong work

[@frank.preacher]

always love your tips

[@dougpaust4709]

Great teaching video and technique!

[@anno.nym.faceless]

Since i live in the netherlands, not very probable i will be on pat's range course. But even via youtube very educational. I did apply resetting the trigger and building trigger pressure on the range here in holland. But we mostly are static sporting shooters, no dynamics here.

[@lupeooo]

Same here in Germany. Hate it.

[@onpsxmember]

@@lupeooo If you want more dynamic shooting, look for the right clubs that feature disciplines of the BDS like steel challenge or if you want to move more you've got to move to ipsc. There are several good training options. You can also take part in shooting events in other countries if you got the travel money. Recently Lynx Brutality in started in Slovenia and if you're into long range/prs there are big events in Poland, some ranges in France and Austria. If you look for it there are lots of great classes out there from some that extensively trained in the US as well.

[@Joe_Friday]

Could y'all get the range masters to let y'all try something a bit different?

[@anno.nym.faceless]

@@onpsxmember I just found out there is NPSA / IPSC in the Netherlands. There is a range, not to far from here, so perhaps i can inform over there. Thanks for the info!

[@michaelwalsh3915]

Your videos are great Pat , thank you 👍

[@douglasachtzehn6676]

Great video Thanks Pat will definitely try this one next time out.

[@chrisbordeaux575]

Outstanding

[@tbdog99]

Well, I know what I’m gonna do 375 times (15 ROUNDS/MAG X 25 REPS) at the range this weekend....need to build muscle memory. Drill makes sense.

[@Kingkealo]

Does your stance determine how accurate you shoot ? Or is it all preference?

[@profoundlyvanilla2708]

where is a good place to go for prescription eye pro?

[@scruggs6633]

Walmart vision centers have prescription eye pro usually. Sometimes smaller local places do too, and you might get a more accurate prescription there, but if you don't want to search around Walmart is a good bet. Not all Walmarts have vision centers though.

[@drewmcrae2798]

Pat is the Next Gen Chuck Norris ….Bam

[@Whitpusmc]

Mac, big fan. One thing you always say is “check your work through the sights.” I find on a drill like this my students start snatching the pistol back sooner and sooner. How do I get them to check their work through their sights and not snatch back too soon?

[@timgwynn3192]

Make sure that they know that end of the drill is to drop their firearm and yell "kill me" to their adversary.

[@boveeinc44]

Zen mode!

[@patriot8421]

Two years later!!!! 🏴🇺🇸🤘🏼🎯

[@jamesschmidlin789]

*MORNING Y'ALL*

[@jeffpraterJSF]

Goodnight brother

[@blueoutside3394]

Morning! Coffee and Mac! Always before work.

[@tomweaver7723]

It’s the hand sanitizer for me

[@dustinmcneal]

Chris Costa casually taking a beginners pistol course 3:28 🤘

[@rykehuss3435]

He is training fundamentals

[@billyhurst1407]

I thought that was him

[@MichaelDavis-uu9zh]

Any more classes coming up? I see your booked :/

[@roussmotorco]

Now we know who Chris Costa learns from

[@milesrost6674]

Pat Mac "The SORCERER"

[@azhivago2296]

Does "squeeze squeeze" means "squeeze the trigger" or "squeeze the handle and grip so the weapon is as stable as possible before pulling the trigger"? Confused because 1) I'm a noob and 2) he says "sight, sight, squeeze, squeeze" twice.

[@JA-oo9qp]

It refers only to manipulating the trigger

[@connorperrett9559]

@@JA-oo9qp Does "Squeeze, squeeze" mean small, incremental bursts of pressure on the trigger with your finger until you fire the gun?

[@JA-oo9qp]

@@connorperrett9559 It’s very much to be judged by you what the correct pace is. To understand what that might look like ask yourself what acceptable shot placement looks like and pull, squeeze, yank or apply pressure incrementally to the trigger as fast as possible while keeping the sights within that acceptable range of deviation. The best way to keep the sights still i.e., within the acceptable sight picture during the entire ignition phase, is to grip the pistol as hard as possible with the support hand while sights stay inside the wobble zone.

[@jimb9454]

Trigger. If you squeeze the grip after establishing your initial grip, you move the the gun, altering aim. Lots of instructors got away from "squeeze" and went to "pull", but that's actually more problematic. Better instructors stay with "squeeze" but explain it more thoroughly. At least that's been my experience. Haven't had the honor of training with Pat in person yet.

[@BlackWat3rGTR]

Didn't know Jeff Bridges was a firearms instructor.

[@Riskmangler]

Question: Why realign before reset?

[@supertrooper7403]

You don’t shoot unless your sights are aligned with the target. It’s forcing you to have proper sight alignment/sight picture before the gun can send the next shot accurately. Doesn’t do you any good to reset your trigger if your sights aren’t on the target. Faster you get realigned and back on target, the faster you can send your next shot to the target.

[@StutteRShot]

^correct!

[@chief5981]

Is that a Shadow System pistol?

[@Rking4094]

Where do I find out the info on your classes?

[@chrisgrooms3697]

GETCHUSUM!!

[@lindelloutdoorsinc]

What holster does Pat have there?

[@lewisatkinson7277]

Oops 😬. Some incorrect distal-falandage spotted!

[@drewmcrae2798]

Or was Chuck Norris the First Gen Pat Mac?

[@mrkeogh]

Is it just my old eyed or is Pat Mac starting to look like _The Dude_ ???

[@pyeitme508]

Wow

[@slaawm1]

So why the "sight sight squeeze squeeze sight sight squeeze squeeze realign finger off the trigger?" I wish he would of explain the reason and purpose of it.

[@StutteRShot]

I gotcha. People tend to rip through the trigger making them shoot low left as a right shooter and low right and a left hand shooter. Telling yourself "squeeze" allows you to audibly tell yourself to squeeze the trigger allowing for accurate shots, "sight" is simply making sure your sights are lined up correctly and that your aren't disturbing them while, you guessed it! Squeezing the trigger! Hope this makes sense! I know I'm a year late but if you see this, I hope your learning journey is going great! Good luck 🤞🏻

[@scottypippen3778]

Quick reupload. What happened?

[@lingualunatic]

What’s meant by reset?

[@PotionSlammerGaming]

Reset is to prepare to follow all of the previous steps. Sight alignment, proper grip, trigger control, etc. then break your next shot rinse and repeat

[@phillippearce9680]

👍

[@larryeddings3185]

👍👍

[@gr7927]

What pistol is pat using

[@StutteRShot]

I know this is late but it does look like a model of "shadow systems". Look them up! Really good guns! Good luck

[@StutteRx]

I like this but hes also pinning the trigger

[@MikeHunt-rw4gf]

Algorithm.

[@rcjames5286]

👍👍