Historical Handgun class April 2021 (part 1)

As part of the 6 days of training Tom Givens (Rangemaster) taught at KR Training’s A-Zone Range in April 2021, Tom and Karl co-taught a one day session of Karl’s Historical Handgun course. The course consisted of a 4 hour lecture from Tom, and a 4 hour block of live fire drills from the 1910’s-1980’s run by Karl.

The oldest course of fire that we shot was the drills from Pollard’s 1917 book on pistol shooting. Details about that course of fire, including video, are here.

We also shot Fitzgerald’s 1920’s police qual.

Tom discussed “point shooting”, including Jelly Bryce, Fairbairn and Applegate.

We shot the 1940’s FBI course of fire, including the hip shooting part at 7 yards.

Older blog posts about this course of fire are here (part 1, part 2, part 3)

More about this course will be in part 2, as we move into the 1950’s-1980’s.