PMCI - December 2019

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6MM TRAINING
ATTACKSENSE ELECTRONIC TARGETS
With “6mm Training” now becoming a “thing” in the minds of not only shooters but indeed some of the big
firearms manufacturers the PMCI team are constantly on the lookout for new and innovative training products.
Bill has been following the rollout of a fabulous system from Attack Sense originating in the UK and now gives
it the attention it so richly deserves!
Sooo, “6mm Training”is “a thing” right enough,
but I’m still finding that some shooters are
denying that this is anther useful tool in the
box, and I genuinely have to qestion why?
Anything, and by that I do mean ANY THING,
that makes us more competent, and above all
safer, shooters MUST be a good thing surely?
I have said this in the past on numerous
occasions, but being resident in the UK means
that my access to handguns and any semi-automatic long
gun above .22 for training is severely limited; it’s only when
I’m lucky enough to work with a “Section 5” dealer (and that
also has its limitations legally in the UK!) that I get my hands
on something “meaningful”, and otherwise I have to head
to sunnier climes (poor me!) to lay down some rounds; this
involves an investment of both time and money.
However, in the meantime I do still want to work on
my “skills and drills” without breaking the bank, and whilst
running countless dry manipulations, magazine changes and
transititions is all very well, it’s absolutely no substitute for
some intensive live target work. I do this on a regular basis
using “6mm” (read airsoft BB!) replicas, and it would appear
that from the growing buzz in the training world I am far from
alone in this, up to and including some LE units around the
globe!
But how do yomake your 6mm training varied and vaild?
A friend of mine, Phil, recently acquired a superb new training
system from a UK-based company called AttackSense, and
having spoken to him about it at length I decided to approach
them myself, and have been so impressed, not only by the
system itself, but by their open approach that I felt it 100%
necessary to bring their training products to your attention as
soon as possible!
To set the tone though Phil has been kind enough to
let me share some of his initial overview comments on the
AttackSense system, and I thank him for his input to this article.
He told me:
“I often find myself traveling through the internet to find new
and exciting things to look into more and see what it’s all about.
One evening whilst on YouTube, I saw a video with some rather
funky target system that responded to being hit and could run
different programs, all done through a wireless link. Not only
that, but it gave real quantifiable data and, as a scientist at
heart, having a way to actually measure any improvements
was a huge plus!”
In the words of the guys behind AttackSense from the website:
“AttackSense is a wireless electronic target system that’s
affordable, versatile and easy to use. Our targets work across
a large area and connect to an app that lets (users) act out
a variety of target practise, competitive shooting and multiplayer
scenarios.Up to 32 targets can be connected together
using our round builder to create complex practical shooting
and kill house configurations, with automatic scoring and
interactive leaderboards.”
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