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Harvested this bull elephant at 0830 on 15 January. He way-laid us after we lost sight of him and then charged us. Took him down with a single frontal shot to the brain at 30 paces with a .416 Rigby, using 450 grain Woodleigh solid bullet. We then were off to hunt "problem" lions in the central Kalahari of Botswana. While tracking 5 lions, this huge leopard came out of his hiding place (warthog hole in the ground, surrounded by brush/trees) and charged us. I dropped him at 10 feet with a single shot to the chest. Plan to return for a lion hunt in 2011.Will send photos via other means so you can use them on your gun club's website. Lloyd

Frontsight Training Center Session - Eric Hutchins posted 1-15-2010
Guys, Got back from a 4 day tactical pistol course at Front Sight near Las Vegas NV.
Days were long... About 12 hours each and every day which included 2 lectures. The rest was on the range....
Front Sight is very disciplined. They say it's not boot camp which it isn't but a very tight ship it is. About 1/2 of the instructors are retired Army or Marines. They are easily identified. When taping targets too slow or talking for instance when an instructor is lecturing, they will jump a person. This was good. People move way too slow. After day 1 or 2 people got the picture.
Every shooter is paired with another. It is expected that when not shooting, the other acts as a coach and watches for safety and skill issues. If something on the line occurs it is partly the coachs fault if not corrected or detected. The drills start out slow and dry practice is used alot. As speed accelerates on drawing and malfunction drills, a vest or concealment garment is then introduced. I had a level 3 retention holster for my SIG 220 and the LE style mag pouch on my duty belt. This put me at a huge handicap as 99% of the shooters were using kydex blade style holsters and loose vertical stack mag pouch. For me to draw and fire in 1.5 seconds 2 shots to the thoracic cavity under a concealed level 3 holster, I had to really focus and push myself. Many times the targets would turn away before shooters had fired their 2 rounds. Speed was really a skill they taught. If skills and shooting deteriorated, they would slow down again and build the confidence.
After day 2 the commands and shooting drills are brisk. Those shooters that did not do tactical reloads, especially those with single stack 45 acp pistols, would sometimes run dry. If the instructors saw that, it was an ass whoopin.....Malfunction drill, type 1, 2, and 3. were performed twice a day every day. Using live ammo, we would have 100's of rounds lying on the ground. They did not want us to pick them up but several of us went during lunch break and over the 4 days I retrieved maybe 400 rounds or 40, 9, and 45... The 9mm was the weapon of choice for most, a few 40's and a few 45's per group of 40 students....
We did a fair ammount of head shots. Hostage targets, door entry and house/room shooting drills with multiple targets. A night shoot, 1 on 1 competition using plate silouetes that drop when hit. Another good excercise on the trigger and sight picture were the ragged hole drills. Placing 5 shots in 1 hole if possible.
I rate the class a 8.5/10 scale... My shooting was average or middle road out of the 40 people in my class. This was humbling and suprising actually. My stance and grip were wrong and I was always going back to the old way... The best shooters in my class of 40 were those that had never fired a handgun or had little exposure to them. This in my opinion is a testamant to the instruction and fundementals that is the foundation at Front Sight. There were 2 people from Australia and you know what their gun laws are. They blew me out of the water....They used rented Springfield XD9's that had worn bluing down to the silver on the slides. Eric Hutchins

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