 Hey guys, Dylan Schumacher, Civil Health Defense. I wanted to go through the gear list for handgun tool one, for those of you who are considering attending and give you a rundown of the things that you need to bring and why you should bring what we tell you to bring. So the first thing on that list is an open and teachable mind. I put that as the first thing on that list because I mean that. If you want to come to class, I hope that you want to come to class to learn. Otherwise, I'm not sure why you're coming. If you don't want to listen to me and do what I tell you to do, I guess you already paid me to teach you, so that's your loss. However, my goal in every class is that people would come away and learn things. I've taken a fair amount of classes. I've been doing this for a little bit and I have some reasons for some things that I think is the right way to do things and I'm not just making this stuff up. I would be happy to tell you my reasons for doing things but what I would ask is that if you would come and take a class with me that you would try it the way that I would suggest for today and if after that you think it's garbage and crap, you can toss it out and do it your own way. But I want you to come to class to learn. I want it to be a learning experience for you and I honestly want it to be a learning experience for me because over time, of course, I will teach things differently and I will change and as I grow and learn and become a better shooter and a better teacher, we'll change some things and we'll start to do some things differently because maybe there's a better method, maybe find a better way of teaching it, yada, yada, yada. So come to class and come to class ready to learn because I want to have a good learning environment and I want to equip you with the skills that you're here to get. The second thing on the list is a handgun, nine millimeter to 45 ACP. I also put on there a G19 size or larger and then a spare pistol is a good one, a good idea if you have one. So the reason I put a G19 size or larger is the class, as we're gonna cover here in a minute, we shoot about 700 rounds, give or take. And therefore, that's a lot of shooting. That's a lot of shooting in the day. And if you have a gun smaller than your G19, you're gonna feel it. By the end of the day, that gun's gonna start to beat up on you a little bit. I'm not a big fan of single stack guns in general. I understand that some of us have to carry those because we have conditions where we can't carry a real gun, a G19 size or bigger and that's fine, I get that. And if all you have is your G43 or your shield or whatever and you wanna come take the class with that, I'm not gonna stop you. However, I would recommend strongly that you have a G19 size or larger and we have some guns available that you can rent, so I'll rent that to you for free so that you can come take the class. But a bigger gun is gonna serve you, especially when we start shooting at longer distances. And by that I mean outside of 10 yards, you're really gonna notice that full-size handguns are gonna serve you really well in ways that those trimmed down guns are just not going to serve you. Second thing, third thing on the list is 700 rounds. We do a lot of shooting, okay? Where we're loading or shooting all day. We do a lot of shooting because I want you to get as many good reps in as you possibly can and we don't always shoot all 700 rounds but that's what I tell you to bring for the day. I also highly recommend that you bring brass case ammunition. I've had some people bring steel case ammunition and as we all know, and if you don't, you're about to find out, steel case ammunition just is not as reliable and often causes more feeding issues. And it's very frustrating to be taking a training class and have equipment issues. I've had that myself where I've gone to take classes and had equipment issues. I was in a night class and I was a rifle night class and two flashlights on two different rifles died during a night class with rifles. And that was a very frustrating experience with me and after that I went out and bought some new lights so that I didn't have that problem anymore. But I don't want you to come to class and struggle at class because you have equipment issues when you're trying to learn. That makes learning much more harder for you. It makes it harder for the class flow in general and of course you just leave with a frustrating experience. And brass case ammunition really isn't that expensive. For nine millimeter, you shouldn't be spending more than 19 cents around anyway and steel case ammunition just isn't gonna save you any money. Note taking gear. I tell you to bring note taking gear because I would expect and hope that you would want to take notes at class. Whenever I go take classes, I come back with notebooks filled with notes because I am writing down everything I can as fast as I can because I wanna be able to review that later. I wanna be able to retain it in the moment and I wanna be able to continue to learn from that class after I leave it. So if you're gonna pay money for a class, you're gonna take a day or two or four or whatever and go take a class. I would recommend that you take notes and write things down so that you're able to maximize your learning experience. Holster. So a hard sided holster is required and by that I mean something kydex or kydex-like or even leather if you really want. Big fan of kydex and kydex-like holsters. No soft sided holsters. You shouldn't be taking a serious shooting class with a soft sided holster anyway. The problem of course there is that those can fold in and when you go to holster your gun it can catch on the trigger or more than likely what happens is people will hold the holster open so you'll have to pry that nylon, soft nylon open and then you'll flag yourself as you put the gun in there. Now is there a way to holster that sucker without flagging yourself? Yes there is. However soft sided holsters do not have the weapon retention that we're gonna need and again if we're shooting 700 rounds think about how many draws that is during the day. It's quite a few and a kydex or kydex-like hard sided holster is gonna serve you. It's gonna pay for itself in just one day because you're doing these repetitive draws and holsters and reloads and whatever and doing all these kinds of things that require you to have a holster we also wear our guns all day. We load our guns up once in the morning and then we wear them loaded the rest of the day and having a solid holster is really gonna serve you both for your learning experience and just from a safety perspective so we don't have any accidental or negligent discharges. I carry my gun appendix when it comes to holsters you can carry your gun however you want. I'm gonna go ahead and recommend some gun the waistline if you're gonna carry your gun on your ankle all day that's gonna be difficult for you. I've never had anyone wanna show up with a shoulder holster. If you did we could probably put you on the far left of the line and deal with that but I wouldn't recommend that. I would recommend something on the waistline right and either appendix maybe strong side or if you wanna go four o'clock in the back that's fine too. But I don't have any restrictions about where or how you can wear that holster. Magazine pouches, look you can carry your mags in your pocket if you want but again a magazine pouch is gonna serve you a lot because we're gonna be reloading and doing a lot of manipulations with that gun today so I would recommend bringing some kind of mag pouch. Seasonally appropriate clothing we shoot rain or shine wet or dry. I've taught classes in the rain I've taught classes when it's like 40 degrees and like sleet raining that wasn't fun but we taught that class and we had a great time. So no matter what, no matter the weather we are gonna shoot that day. I do not cancel because of weather so bring whatever you gotta bring in order to function in that weather. A bag lunch and water, we're not gonna have time to go out for lunch so go ahead and bring lunch and lots of snacks and lots of water. Eye and ear protection, that one should be fairly obvious but we're shooting guns so you need to wear eyes and ears. I highly recommend electronic ears. You can find some on Amazon for like 50 bucks those Howard Light ones are great. Electronic ears are gonna let you hear me and hear what else is going on around you and still have hearing protection against gunshots. Bug spray and suntan lotion that's again pretty obvious. Bring bug spray and suntan lotion we're gonna be outside all day shooting so you'll need suntan lotion if it's warmer and bug spray because usually we shoot in rural areas and they have bugs. At least four working magazines I would recommend at least four assuming you have a double stack gun. If you have a single stack gun you're gonna need at least eight magazines. The reason we need at least that many magazines is we're all gonna load our magazines we're gonna go out, we're gonna shoot some repetitions and I base those repetitions on you having that many magazines. If you have less than that then we have to reload more often it slows the whole class down. So please bring at least four magazines so that we can keep the flow of the class moving along. If you have more magazines that just means you get to reload less during the day. A tactical light so if you have a handheld tactical light go ahead and bring that. This is not a night class this is a class that takes place during the day. However when we do single hand manipulations you'll have a chance to work that light and just get some dry run practice in with it. Knee pads for those of you who maybe have some knee issues or it hurts to kneel I would recommend bring some knee pads because we're gonna spend some time kneeling. A lawn chair, a lot of the classes I teach are in brutal areas and so in between and on breaks and during launch it's nice to be able to sit down and you need a chair in order to be able to do that and sometimes we don't have those available. So I highly recommend you bring your favorite lawn chair so that you can sit down and take a break while we're on breaks. I do not have any prerequisites for this class this is an introductory handgun class so we'll take you from zero to 60 as long as you are willing to learn and willing to follow instructions. Hope to see you at handgun 201, thanks a lot.