Posted on 05/16/2009 4:24:22 AM PDT by rellimpank
I’ve never liked Piazza’s advertising campaign either. However, I have nothing but praise for the Front Sight (FS) training. Attended the 4-day Practical Rifle (PR) in Jan 2009 and my son and a friend attended the 4-day pistol at the same time. Top notch and I’ve taken other professional training (Chuck Taylor American Small Arms Academy in 1995). Here’s my FS trip report from another board where I discussed merits of my rifle as well:
Steyr Scout .308 was absolutely awesome for 4-day PR. Would not take PR with any other bolt action rifle. As each of the four days progressed I was increasingly thankful for Jeff Cooper’s legacy, the Steyr Scout. Not ONE malfunction in 400 rounds of .308 Magtech ammo purchased at the Pro Shop. (very clean ammo by the way).
Lightness was the chief advantage. You do a lot of holding your rifle up and 7 lbs. is much easier than 9 to 12 lbs. The both eyes open, long eye relief scope was another user friendly feature. The two 5-round mags (one in the stock) prompted me to christen my Scout a ‘tactical hunting rifle.’ Made using a bolt for malfunction drills much easier than old-fashioned floor plates.
FS rangemaster worked with me to utilize unique features of the Scout, e.g., I was able to use the integrated bipod by unlatching before fire command and then sweeping legs forward and falling forward into prone. He realized unlatching each leg would slow me down too much. Shooting prone from 200 yards WITH a bipod beats an elbow. Still slowed me down a bit but I’m more concerned about accuracy than speed and wanted to learn the most efficient way to leverage this awesome rifle - which I did with the help of the great staff at FS.
Everyone that I’ve encountered has lots of praise for FS. I watched a guy at my local range practicing his drills from FS and I was impressed by the military precision of the drills. I had never heard of FS until I spoke to him after he was done shooting. I went home, logged in, and the emails started flooding in! LOL.
Like it or not, you have to admit that his advertising is effective because its just enough to keep me interested and not enough to get placed on the spam list!
What could possibly take four days to learn about pistols?
For the more trainable remainder of folks they take four days to learn basic competence.
I have been looking into some training courses at Tactical Response located in TN.
Anyone here have experience with Tactical Response?
This lawsuit process has actually been going on for a few years. Front sight already lost the lawsuit itself, this money thing is just from the after effects. No it wasn’t an attack on the 2nd Amendment, it was about some poor real estate development practices when the center first opened.
And no it hasn’t really damaged their firearms training business. Business is up, and they were just hiring new instructors (yet again) a few weeks/months back to keep up with demand.
Yes the place is a bit pricey compared to other facilities, but oh man the training is five star.
If you look around you can get some great one time only deals on their classes in the form of transferable gift certificates, you just gotta pay for the trip to Nevada and supply your own ammo (no reloads, only factory).
Anyone ever taken one of their armorer’s courses?
Or has anyone viewed an AGI armorer’s course?
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