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Deputy Lauck captains world class shoot team |
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| The 1991 World Championship Tactical Shooting Competition was held in September in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
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| Match directors selected approximately 250 entrants from top military, police and civilian shooters to make up 38 shooting teams to compete in the 1991 championships. |
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| Shooting teams were required to fire duty-type weapons from close to long range. |
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| Deputy Dave Lauck captained one of the teams. |
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| He says making the finals requires a combination of teamwork, marksmanship, and strategy. |
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| Excellent individual shooters who did not have the required teamwork and strategy often failed or ran into gun handling safety problems, Lauck said. |
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| The semi-final team shooting event was kept secret from the shooters, as were all shooting stages. This was to require quick decisions to an unknown situation. |
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| The semi-final event was similar to a military or police SWAT team being inserted into a hostile environment with very little information. The teams were inserted into the shooting situation via military vehicle with blacked out windows. The vehicle lurched to a stop and the team exited to solve the situation as quickly as possible. |
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| Live rockets and grenade simulators were used as shooter distraction devices during the course of fire. |
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| Targets in the final event ranged from the close handgun targets to long range rifle targets. Lauck fired the long range rifle anchorman position without missing a shot and helped turn in a first place time. |
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| Lauck had high praise for his team and the dedication it takes to compete at the world level. |
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| Lauck was also contracted to build the overall first place world championship prize pistol for the 1991 match. Lauck was honored at the awards banquet following the match by Lt. Col. R. K. Brown. |
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| Lauck encourages other officers to get involved in practical shooting training to improve safe and accurate gun handling. |