Wayne Dobbs’ Service Revolver Fundamentals

Description

A revolver class where you will learn the fundamentals of shooting your service revolver.  Your instructor will be Wayne Dobbs. 

Wayne Dobbs is a retired 25-year veteran of the Richardson TX PD (Dallas Metro Area), where he served in uniformed, covert and investigative assignments including narcotics, intelligence and Federal Organized Crime Task Force duties.  

Wayne has been a certified firearms instructor since 1980 and continued his training in other force level instructor certifications (baton, defensive tactics, OC) and has remained a student of many of the top names in firearms training over the past generation.  Those names include Ken Hackathorn, Pat Rogers, John Farnam, Tom Givens, Jeff Gonzales, Rob Leatham, Larry Vickers, Paul Howe, Greg Hamilton and Larry Mudgett.  Wayne holds instructor certifications from Larry Vickers, Rob Leatham, Paul Howe, John Farnam, Erick Gelhaus, US Department of State and Texas Commission on Law Enforcement.

In addition to his 25 years of operational police service (with many successfully managed armed confrontations), Wayne served for two years on a Department of State Police Training contract from 2004-2006 in the Iraq combat zone, where he managed a firearms training program for delivery to the Iraqi Police Service.  After that service, Wayne served from 2010-2012 on another Department of State Worldwide Protective Service diplomatic protection detail training program in the US for Triple Canopy.

Wayne is currently employed by Aimpoint, Inc., where he is a Law Enforcement sales manager and assists in delivering training in the use of red dot optics on carbines and pistols.

Topics Covered

Topics Covered –

• Safety Brief for the real world, not just the range
• Critical Fundamental approaches: vision, grip and triggering
• Manipulations: loading, unloading, reloading, drawing/reholstering, ready
• positions
• Range Work: learning the trigger stroke, several short firing drills to build
• fundamental competencies, reality of the stress reload
• Ammo and maintenance discussions

Expectations and Outcomes

Takeaways –

• Solid understanding of fundamental shooting and manipulation techniques
• Personal evaluation of your equipment and its suitability
• Understanding of how to structure your training and practice efforts to match your
• needs regarding the revolver
• Hopefully, understanding that the revolver is still an excellent, viable choice for
• use in defensive and recreational service
• Revolvers are fun!

Types

Advanced, Basic, Intermediate

Requirements

6 shot standard sized revolver desired
300 rounds of ammo
1 speedloader minimum - more is better!
Speedloader pouch desireable