TDI: Tactical Defense Institute

Went to this place for the second time now last week. It is a 186 acre area with many different firing ranges and live fire houses. This place is world renowned for its quality. West Point sends their pistol team to the owner every year. Owner's name is John Benner (spelling may be wrong). He is one of those guys that knows everything, but is very humble about it. He's a very good shooter and good at teaching it.

We started on the beginner range with metal targets from short range doing draws from the holster, timing our shooting. The two instructors went around trying to correct problems they saw. They kept watching me a lot, but never said anything to me. After a couple of hours of this, we moved to different areas. Those that had been to TDI before moved to the "live fire" house. Basically set up with walls like a building and has doors and hallways and everything you may find in these buildings. You go through searching the building (very tactically) with a partner and if you encounter a "bad guy" (target) with a gun, you put a couple rounds into them. Some are very tricky in tight corners. Some targets are tricky (one was pregnant lady with gun pointed at you from her waist). Very tough and stressful going through these houses because it is live fire shooting left, right and forward. Have to make sure you know where your rounds are going.
Then we moved to the upper range which was the most fun. Metal targets set up at the end of the field. At the front of the field is a large ply wood wall with shapes cut out of it (triangles, rectangles, and squares). In between the wall and the targets were obstacles you may be able to hide behind. Instructor calls out a shape and you have to shoot the metal targets at the end of the field through the shape, moving along the wall shooting through each. In the middle of the wall is a staircase going up the wall and ramp going down. This may cause you to lay down shooting, kneel, or stand up depending on the shape and your height. At the end of the wall you run to different obstacles firing up the metal targets at the end of the field. The whole scenario takes about 4-5 minutes and is extremely tiring. That was the end of our day after a couple hours in this field.
It is kind of wonderful that I have a job that not only pays for me to go to these things, but pays me to go. Beautiful day, lots of shooting, what more fun could there be.