Class Cons
My concerns about this class mostly fall into a single bucket; lack of structure. This class felt less like a training session and more like a group range trip where one of us kept suggesting things we should do. The 50/10 schedule was not adhered to, and due to the temperatures we had one case of heat exhaustion after skipping two breaks. However, sometimes the breaks ran obnoxiously long because the instructors were swapping stories with the students. The first one or two were entertaining, but most of us were grumbling about it by the end of Day 1. We also had some shooters show up with un-zeroed rifles, so we spent well over half of day one on zeroing. This was mostly wasted time for me and several others in the class. To make up time, Chris proposed that we start day 2 an hour early. I thought this was a reasonable compromise. So all the students showed up an hour early, as well as Steve. However, Chris didn't show up until normal time so we got zero benefit out of that extra hour. This was more than a little irritating to many of us. It also cost us the "cover and concealment" content of the course because we never made up the time we lost.
I was also surprised by the amount of profanity Chris used. To be fair, he did ask if anyone minded. However, the amount of 4-letter words Chris can force his monologues was pretty shocking. The frequency of dirty jokes was similar. I don't mind that type of humor, but it got pretty old after two full days of it. Maybe not an issue for everyone.
Last, I brought 1000 rounds for this course as required. That cost me quite a pretty penny, but I was excited at the thought of that much trigger time. For me, that was a factor in choosing this training class over others. However, at the end of Day 2, I had only fired about 360 rounds. That's a pretty big difference. That didn't seem to bother everyone, but I felt like I spent $300 that I didn't need to.