Check out Boone County IN.

No reason to go elsewhere.

Considered a coward by guys in the field. A quick google search of his name and Iraq 2005 should show you why. He may be good at teaching basic fundamentals (don't have to be a genius o do that) but I would be wary of mindset lessons from a guy who stands in between the targets his students are shooting at to "keep his edge" Better off learning mindset from those who actually participated in gunfights, not off crying in a ditch.

Form your own opinion however it seems that he is constantly trying to prove how tough he thinks he is...

Basically, there are many better choices...

Take the Tactical Response Fighting Pistol. If you are not happy at the end of the 2nd day with the class, you can ask for a refund. You must state why in front of the class but the ability is there if you didn't like the training.

As for ColoCCW - seems like he takes the opportunity to bash Yeager / Tactical Response every chance he gets. -shrug-

So what would you have done in his situation?

I've done the most important thing each time...keep my head in the game. I've never set an emergency brake in an ambush, I've never hid in a ditch while teammates were getting shot up, I actually faught back (when not moving a principle), and I didn't go and bitch about it to the world with a public AAR. That's why I'm still doing this job and why some of my teammates ar still doing this job.

Does that sufficently answer your question? Did he not tell you of his past cowardace while you promote his classes?

As I said before...there are many better choices.

Yeager invites anyone that has something to say about him to say it to his face at SHOT Show every year.... no takers yet.

Yes, he's a horses ass and he knows it. But he's also an extremely competent shooter and instructor. I spent a few days with him while we were both in LA on shooting/tv related business a couple of years ago. He's pretty damn funny and cool to hang out with.

I've only taken his Fighting Pistol but he wasn't the instructor. Jay Gibson taught the class.

For the money it's a good course, but its more of a mindset course than a marksmanship course.

IMHO, I didn't feel like I was pressed for accuracy enough, but that's not really the point of the class anyway. The purpose of the course is to instill a fighting, never-give-up attitude and survival mindset.

If you take the class in Camden, BE SURE to stay in the Team Room. There are loaded AKs in every corner and a holster screwed to the wall in the bathroom so you can stow your pistol while you take a shit.

There is a combat reading library in the Team Room too, and you can borrow books so long as you return them.

There was an Iraq vet with his wife in the class as well as a DHS instructor. There were a couple of other guys in class that I've remained good friends with, that are both secret squirrel contractors with the Army.

And for those who care, the company that Yeager worked for in Iraq reported later that he had followed procedure.

TR is a "big name"

Bet TR has more students every year than GS or Thunder Ranch have in recent years.

Good luck with that. There was a thread on here about a year ago(in TN hometown i beliave), about how bac of a class it was and TR refused to refund his money.

I would take it hands down and would recommend it to anyone else.

I have taken a fair amount of courses over the years from various "big name" and not so big name places.

For the record, I have taken several courses from the big boys, like SigArms (now Sig Sauer) Academy and Blackwater (when it was still Blackwater).

I have also taken courses from small shops (EAG Tactical and CCJA). I have also taken instruction from Tactical Response.

Here's my take:

James Yeager IS controversial. Period.

There are those that hate him, while others love the ground he treads.

Some of us don't give a shit, either way.

TR is different in that the training was outside what I was accustomed to. For example, there were none of the usual "range rules"
that one is accustomed to at various schools and ranges. The Four Rules Of Firearms Handling were the principles adhered to at Tactical Response.
This meant that there were times when students were 'down range' during firing excercises.This reflected a philosophy that in a real scenario, the bad
guys are not going to wait for all of your party to be on a nice linear line before they open up on you.

Some folks have issues with this and call it unsafe,

I had no problem with this at all.

In the end, I am happy that I did take instruction from Mr.Yeager. Any good instructor tells their students to get as much training from as many
different instructors as they can. Thus, I feel that going to TR was a good experience, to go along with what I had learned at the other places I have been.

I have no regrets.

As others have stated, he offers a money back guarantee (with some limitations) and if you do not like the product, you can take
advantage of this offer.

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...and people think it's wrong to require someone to be sucessfull in a gunfight to teach gunfighting to others (hiding in a ditch doesn't count as sucessfull).

Please link the thread if you're going to make assertions like that about the person who posted it.

That thread happened, the OP of that thread went a bit off the reservation and was sanctioned for it...