a recurring theme you guys are hearing on our youtube channel and all of our social media pages
is our desire as a company to invest in you with content that educates you and also products that
are going to help you become better prepared when we're talking about our firearms and
carrying those firearms our desire is to equip communities with the right information so that
you can be a better prepared defender so that trickles down into all of our lineup
and all the aspects of our target systems so what i have here today is our mini adap system
and attached to this is one of our hostage assemblies and the hostage assembly is a unique
attachment for any adap system any generation that's going to allow you
guys to train with purpose and have a higher level of accountability let's get into it
the hostage target assembly bolts on any of our 8 app systems and doesn't matter if you purchase
it in 2015 or 2021 this bracket will attach to your top bracket and that's super awesome because
there's part commonality in our brand from day one even though we released the hostage assembly
later on and installation of the hostage assembly is super easy we include four bolts four nuts some
washers and you can just bolt it right to the top bracket through the four holes the paddle
is pretty slick it just locks into the gussets so the mechanism itself locks it in in a way that it
can't jump out and we do offer a couple different paddle sizes for the hostage assembly so if you're
shooting 22 long rife when you like to just plink and enjoy stuff like that with smaller calibers
the 3 16th paddle is awesome for you most people purchase the 3 8 inch ar 550 reduced paddle which
is what we have here this is perfect if you're using centerfire pistols or light carbines
and what we distinguish or determine or define like carbines as is 556 300 blackout 762 by 39
anything that falls into that realm would be perfect for this paddle if you find yourself
engaging this target system at longer distances with bigger calibers we do have what we call
our 308 paddle and that's going to work with anything that is ballistically similar to a 308
so there's a lot of versatility in this system you don't have to change the bracket you can just
simply switch paddles depending on what you're using and in my personal firearm journey what
i've used this hostage assembly for and what my reasoning behind designing it and developing it
was was to just offer people more accountability in their system but also add some reactivity the
reactivity is key because it's a challenging target it's small this paddle is not very large
so this is our mini 8 app that i have here but you can see that the paddle itself is much much
smaller and when we developed the hostage assembly originally all we had was our sea zone 8 app so
we had a big target plate and we wanted to push people with their accountability so we
released this hostage assembly as our way to offer people some more accountability with reactivity
and a little bit of a side tangent before we release the bolt-on assembly for the hostage
we actually had our own hostage system that was a totally separate product than the 8-app system but
over the years we just decided and as time went on that it was a better move to have something that
anybody that had an adap system could just simply adapt it to their target plate my favorite thing
to do with the hostage assembly is pistol training and that's because pistols generally
are very difficult to shoot they're difficult to master i'm definitely no master i have a lot to
learn and to be honest we're out here at sleigh b it's hot it's dirty we've been shooting all day
and we're all hungry at this point so you know my shooting's not the best right now but this system
is going to take you at those times and push you to a higher accountability level so what i wanted
to do is actually show you one of my favorite ways to use this system so i've got some earpro
and we're just going to come back to 10 yards guys this video is not going to be super complicated
when it comes to pistols you can shoot as close as 10 yards with the light rifles light carbines
you can shoot as close as 50 yards and if you're shooting 308 on 308 paddle that's 100 yards but
anyway guys let's go back here to 10 yards so my friend phil with vigor training talks
about a drill that he calls the pirate drill and so what that essentially is is i can put
multiple rounds on the body and then engage the hostage paddle and the goal here for example if
i draw and put one round on the body i want to engage the hostage paddle be engaging the body
and then be ready to be back on the hostage paddle as it swings around for that second
shot so essentially before the paddle comes to the other side i want to be on target and ready
to engage it so we're going to do that here real quick for you and we're going to use my sig p320
just on the beep so what's gonna happen is i'm going to shoot the body paddle body paddle
on the buzzer
okay so that time was 2.75 so what are we working here so why and also why is this
a exciting drill one of my favorites so for one it's fun it's super exciting two and i recommend
you guys check out this video on our youtube channel we talked to philip bigger training
and he kind of goes into the reasoning behind why these drills exist that would be episode four of
budgeting ammo we'll put a card up here check out that video but what i'm doing here is engaging
with what you could call macro aiming where i can just get the dot on the target break the shot
hit the center of the mini adapt and then on the hostage paddle i really gotta dial my aiming down
and make a high precision shot and then the timing is i'm reacting to how that paddle is moving so
i'm putting a time threshold where i have to perform at a very high level in order to get
that second body hit and then engage the paddle as soon as it comes around to the other side
another thing that we could do is just work on your reaction to the hostage paddle and i'll
try to make some hits here so essentially i'm just going to draw and engage the hostage paddle itself
and go paddle paddle so we're just going to try to flip it back and forth real quick
okay total time on that was a 2.04
not bad so in two seconds i draw from concealment engage the hostage paddle flip it side to side
so now what we can do is variations of that drill as well we can do two rounds on the body paddle
two rounds on the body paddle so we're gonna do that i think i might end up with a reload
which is fine because one of the other things i love to do on this is reload drills so
let's do this so two to the body paddle two to the body paddle that's what we're gonna do here
sometimes if you end up hitting the hostage paddle on the inside
you'll end up having to clear it essentially clear it around so light hits on the inside
of the paddle can get it stuck on the back let me actually just clear the system out
all right
so that's another thing with the hostage system that i really enjoy is the fact that you have to
react to the reaction of the paddle so if you have a poor hit you are going to end up having
a poor result and that is something that it's hard to replicate in our training i mean we can
see when we miss but this is a instant immediate i know that if i hit the inside of the paddle i may
not fully rotate it around and i can dissect the why behind that and then address that so
another thing i like to do this is the last drill that i'll show you guys real quick is just reload
drills so what i'll do is draw hit the paddle reload put two rounds on the body hit the paddle
all right that was a sloppy run let's see if we can get one clean run out of that
so we are going to draw hit the paddle reload two rounds on body hit the paddle
cool so those are just a couple drills that i'll run with the hostage system guys like i said the
hostage assembly it adapts to any of our adap systems in our lineup it doesn't matter if you
bought the 8 app in 2015 or 2021 so if you want some more reactivity you already have on our 8 app
systems definitely check out the hostage assembly and if you want to add a hostage assembly to your
8 app system in every single 8 app system that we offer we have the option on the website to
add the hostage assembly at a discount so you can save some money on a hostage assembly when you buy
it with a system then you can get out and start training with more purpose because ultimately
that's what we're trying to do here on the range and like i said a couple minutes ago
we have range days where we suck we have bad range days and like one of the drills i shot
here i didn't do very good and we're going to have those times the key is working through them
and using the tools that we have to become better shooters because ultimately that's
how we are going to better our community and then affect the culture around us and have an impact
on everybody around us so guys check them out tatargets.com go to shop steal target systems
and then look for the hostage target you're gonna love it it's gonna help you train
and you're gonna become better prepared appreciate you guys
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