U.S. Police Adopt
F.B.L Pistol Course

As Training Standard

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This article appears in The Shoulder
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John Edgar Hoover, Director
of the F.B.I.

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N EVENT of some importance
A to police pistol shooters in the

U.S. was the announcement
this spring from headquarters of the
National Rifle Association that the
F.B.I. Practical Pistol course had been
adopted as the standard for training
by U.S. law enforcement agencies.

This will take the place of the old
Camp Perry (or Police Course) with
its familiar twenty-five yard technique
of slow, timed and rapid on the
standard 25-yard target.

Apparently the decision has been
made to place the emphasis on the
practical rather than the match-style
performance, and in this the F.B.I.
course should prove an _ excellent
training program.

For those not acquainted with the
course, here’s an outline:

The targets are the well-known
Colt Police Silhouette, a man-size
black legless silhouette on white.

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Values of hits are allocated as K (kill)
5, 4, 3, 2 and D (disable) of the same
value. The F.B.I. only score the K
values.

To commence the course the
shooter takes his position seven yards
from the target where ten shots are
fired double action, in the elapsed
time of twenty-five seconds from the
command draw to the final shot. This
includes reloading time.

The shooter then goes back to the
60-yard line, where he starts again
with the reloaded gun in_ his
holster, and 35 spare shells in his
pocket.

At the command “commence firing”
he drops to a prone position, fires five
shots, reloads while prone, reholsters
his gun and advances to the 50-yard
line.

Here he fires five shots sitting, five
prone, and from behind a wooden
door-like barricade three feet in
width and six feet high, he fires five
shots with the left hand on the left-
hand side and five on the right. On
the left-hand side the right hand is
placed against the edge of the door,
the thumb acting as a crotch to rest
the right hand wrist. The perform-
ance is reversed on the right-hand
side.

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He then advances to the 25-yard
line, where he fires another five shots
sitting, and repeats with five from
each side of another barricade.

Total time for the course is six
minutes and ten seconds.

Chief advantage of the course lies
in the fact that it familiarizes the
individual with a type of shooting he
might reasonably expect in the
course of his duty. In this respect
reloading in the prone position is a
valuable exercise.

A disadvantage might be the
danger of accident on a crowded
firing line when men are shooting in
squads. However, the F.B.I. take care
of this angle by classing as safety vio-
lations:

(a) Drawing the gun before sitting.

(b) Drawing the gun in such a
manner as to cross the leg with
the muzzle.

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