Who was the instructor?

Is usually Marty,

FAS started in Seattle and until WSI shut down used to teach classes there in addition to the ones taught at the home range.

Glad you had a good experience with the class. I’ve taken 3 classes at FAS and earlier this year I took FAS 7, got the certificates and that whole thing. While I found the class to be somewhat worthwhile, I didn’t think it was nearly as complete as it should be. Things that were advertised in the class outline weren’t covered or were only lightly touched on and there wasn’t even a trace of a lecture at the beginning of the course. Not that a lecture is everything just that it’s nice to have some type of introductory from the teacher as to his or her opinions on the weapons system, it’s use/application, and what the goals of the class are. I think Marty’s words to my class were... ”my idea of the AR-15 differs from most... I think the gun is an offensive weapon and teach the class as such.” That about covered it.

The class was also a bit void in the shooting instruction department. Even though some of these things were advertised in the class outline the instructors failed to cover such fundamentals as: administratively loading and unloading the gun, checking the status of the weapon, tactical reloads, and malfunction clearance drills just to name a few. Other things that, while covered were hardly touched on such as search techniques, transition drills, and one-handed operations. Plus when shooting around a hard right hand corner or around the left side of a barricade a right-handed shooter was instructed to transition the rifle to their left side and there was no instruction on how to properly shoot right handed around the aforementioned obstacles. But I think one of the worst parts was during the low light section where the students received absolutely no instruction on how to use both a rifle and a flashlight. In fact, only the shooters with dedicated gun mounted lights were permitted to use them during the low light section.

Now don’t get me wrong I don’t think the class was a complete waste of time and I’m certainly not trying to bash the school, not one bit. But for a course described as “Tactical Rifle” I would think the course would focus on a bit more practical aspect of rifle shooting as opposed to how to hit targets at 100yds and beyond. Personally I can imagine many “tactical” situations wherein I would be required and legally justified to engage a “threat” at 100yds much less 265yds. YMMV.