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ARMY/USMCMP
08-06-2007, 12:46 AM
After 20 years of firearms training through the U.S military Army, the USMC and civilian law enforcement I finaly learned something that can be deployed as a life saving measure using a sidearm in the blink of an eye.

Ive been going to AJI a sporting goods/gun store in Apache Junction, AZ. for several years now. Several months ago I met a guy who works there part time, for the fun of it and so he can get guns at a discount price. He goes by the name of Brownie or the AZ Quick Kill Master. (Just kidding everybody calls him Brownie.) After several times of talking with Brownie, I not only decided he was a cocky SOB, but that he was also very well versed in several areas. Firearm recognition, trouble shooting, overall firearm and Training with a Capital T. It didnt hurt that he too was another Jarhead.

I decided to take a class from Brownie on quick kill technique. We did this class In Flagstaff, AZ. July 2007. I can say it was the best training without a doubt that I have ever taken. He not only showed us these tecniques in an outdoor area where we could spread out, but he also has the motto of (NO ONE LEFT BEHIND); for two days we learned techniques, that when using our handguns from a holstered position was easy to grasp, easily repeatable, and he has easy names for evry one of these, techniques so as he he is teaching it they are easy to remember when he calls out a command to deploy and tells you what to do. (These names are such as the BUMP, Elbow up Elbow Down and the Quick Kill.) Best of all, these techniques require no sight aquisition on the gun at all. This is what makes them so fast and a lifesaver.

These skills also included running in multiple directions while shooting in multiple directions from strong side and weak, speed shooting for crowd control/coverage, shooting a target behind you without tuirning around, multiple target aquisition with speed and many others. Again I say all without using a sight on the gun and that was just the 1st day. The 2nd day we did force on force learning techniques of disarming the (person/scumbag/threat) and applying the techniques from the day before so we could get use to getting the upperhand by firing the 1st shots. Yes I said shots! Meaning it is so fast you can get multiples downrange accuratly before your opponent can even draw.

In closing I would like to say this is better then any modern technique I have ever learned such as front sight only shooting or any other point of aim technique.

Brownie thank you so much for this training. I am confident this training if i have a need to deploy it will someday save my life or that of someone with me and in this day and age that is a real possibility.

Thanks,
Mike Gilliam
USARMY/USMCMP

P.S REX if you read this wait till you try the rifle techniques that I have learned from Brownie since the class. There amazing.

Brownie
08-06-2007, 09:44 AM
Mike,

We did have a good time in Flagstaff didn't we? The weather cooperated and was 15 degrees cooler than here in the valley which made for good training and shooting:D

Thanks for your thoughts on the training. I'm looking forward to more of the same with you in the future.

Semper Fi brother

Brownie
08-06-2007, 07:56 PM
Mike,

Could you explain what the QK rifle skill entails for our members here? How hard or easy it was to pick up, how long it took to be able to utilize the skills with a rifle, how accurate you found it to be with no front sight on the rifle using your natural ability, etc?

Some of the members might want to have more details in this training as well.

Thanks

ARMY/USMCMP
08-07-2007, 10:43 PM
Brownie in answer to your question and for the other mebers if you have not yet been instructed in the QK rifle skills it is a must.

In a matter of minuites using no front or rear sight on a long gun you can be hitting objects with ease to include moving targets. The day I was 1st introuduced to this skill it was very windy outside and and with this skill I was hitting targets in the air, nickle and quater size. This skill was also practiced shooting very small targets on the ground. All it took was getting the correct instruction from Brownie in maintaining the same cheek weld on the gun every time and getting my point of reference down for ground targets and targets in the air. The biggest thing this skill will do for me is make me better on the offence in the case of a defence situation. (Another one of those lifesaver techniques.) However for those of you that hunt big game and are also avid wing shooters like myself this will improve your hunting as well. (Just think of those times when you have pushed a deer out or flushed a bird out when you were not prepared.) This can improve your chance of a kill because you can shoot with out sight aquisition, providing your surroundings allow for the shot. All of this while using the natural ability you allready have. Another bonus is this skill can be practiced and made very repeatable with a BB gun think of the savings on ammo while practicing in your backyard.

Thanks again Brownie for the friendship and the skills.
Next maby we can start with the hand to hand and edged weapons.

Brownie
08-07-2007, 10:59 PM
Next maby we can start with the hand to hand and edged weapons.

Sounds good to me:D

I appreciate your thoughts and friendship as well Mike.

Beagles747
08-08-2007, 03:27 PM
Mike,

Could you explain what the QK rifle skill entails for our members here? How hard or easy it was to pick up, how long it took to be able to utilize the skills with a rifle, how accurate you found it to be with no front sight on the rifle using your natural ability, etc?

Some of the members might want to have more details in this training as well.

Thanks

Mike,
Good stuff isn't it?:D
My take on the Rifle Quick kill the day I learned it:
http://www.threatfocused.com/forums/showthread.php?t=647

Brownie is like a walking Encyclopedia for self-defense! Talks the talk but walks the walk!

-John

Brownie
08-08-2007, 09:07 PM
Brownie is like a walking Encyclopedia for self-defense!

No no, I've told you before John, I just stayed at a Holiday Inn a few nights:D

JMusic
08-09-2007, 08:35 PM
ARMY/USMCP welcome aboard. Feel free to post. We make special allowances for "Jar Heads" and no I wasn't one.:D


Jim

ARMY/USMCMP
08-12-2007, 09:46 PM
Jim thanks for the welcome and the allowance. Ive heard alot of good things about you from Brownie so I'll make an allowance as well seeings how you were not a Jar Head. Look forward to meeting you someday.

Dave James
08-13-2007, 07:08 PM
Welcome aboard, but I refuse to think of you as a jar-head, your title seems to imply we had you first GO! ARMY!!!!!:D

ARMY/USMCMP
08-27-2007, 10:26 PM
Yes I was in the Army 1st but I came to and saw my mistake and it was instantly corrected by joining the USMC.

Brownie
08-27-2007, 10:34 PM
Uh Oh:eek:

Dave James
08-28-2007, 01:43 PM
JAR-HEADS :D Just can't get them to see their evil ways :D :D :D