I’ve met three people (at the local gun range and gun stores here in NE Florida) who have been to Front Sight and they had nothing but praise. I’ve read some books and blogs by people in the survivalist movement lately, and Front Sight comes up as their training location of choice too.
I think this lawsuit was primarily designed to “get” Piazza and put Front Sight out of business.
For people that aren’t familiar, Piazza does look like a slick used-car salesman and his email advertising campaign makes you feel like you are being pursued by a cult (or at least an Amway distributor), but the classes look intriguing and a couple friends and I have been considering taking the 4-day pistol course in the Fall. We’ll have to put that on hold until we see how this shakes out.
Piazza is a big-time scientologist, from what I understand.
The training has been top notch in the past.
The reason you feel like you’re being pursued by a cult could be the fact that Piazza is a level-whatever cleared of thetans pooh bah in Scientology.
Just a hunch from someone with no first-hand knowledge, but by this fall I don’t think that’ll be an option.
What could possibly take four days to learn about pistols?
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.