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At what point will we finally acknowledge that classes like this are cosplay for gun nerds?

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At what point will we finally acknowledge that classes like this are cosplay for gun nerds?

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At 0:43 what did I see? It looked like ricochets or incoming rounds from the outside of the shoot house...

I made it an additional 7 seconds  and gave,up...

NCPatrolAR  [Member]
2/10/2006 11:26:06 AM EDT
I've done multiple classes with Tactical Response (in Carthage and other places). Each of the trainers are top notch and know their stuff. They also keep the classes entertaining and don't have any ego.


If you have any specific questions feel free to ask me or M4-grunt (he has a "bit" of expereince with Tactical Response also). I've done the Fighting Pistol, Fighting Rifle, Fighting Shotgun courses along with attending their Alumni shoot last year.

Also unless something comes up; I'll be in Carthage again in April

NCPatrolAR  [Member]
2/10/2006 4:54:51 PM EDT
Personaly, I think the Tactical response classes are head and shoulders above the Howe class. To me, the Howe class was more of an entry level carbine operator class and focused more on marksmanship than anything else. With Tactical response you make the shift from doing pure marksman work to learning how to actually fight with the rifle. Transitions (in the rifle class), shooting on the move, verbalization, mental training (often overlooked by other trainers), are things that you will get a lot of exposure to in any of the Tactical Response classes. Also, they run hot ranges (Howe's cold range got on y nerves).

NCPatrolAR  [Member]
4/13/2006 2:28:55 PM EDT
Rifle class AAR

Let me start by thanking Steve and Paul for organizing the classes (though I'll focus on the rifle class in this post) and for Aaron making the trip down to tolerate us and try to pass on some useful information.

The rifle class ran very smoothly with us spending a fair amount of time shooting DEA dots doing drills such as the infamous MS meltdown and reconfirming the principle of bore-sight relationship. Alternate shooting postions, the use of cover, and shooting on the move were covered on the first day. Of course gear tweaking was covered on day 1 and continued well into day 2.

When I got to the range on day 2 everyone was already well into training on how to conduct peels. At this point I noticed a number of people had shed their chest rigs and had gone to simple subloads. We continued with more shooting on the move and ultimately concluded the day with a large 14 man peel (which Steve seemed to get into more than anyone else even though he wasn't shooting ). It was a great conclusion to a great class and a even better 4 days of training.

On the gear specific side of the house, basically every variant of AR was in use on the range minus a full size rifle. The typical sights being used were the EoTech with a few AImpoints thrown into the mix. One shooter had one of the larger ACOGs mounted and I made the decision to run a Trjicon Accupoint (1.25-4X variable) on my rifle for the class. The idea of using a variable scope had became more and more interesting to me as I continued to read up on optics like the Accupoint and the S&B Short Dot. After running one for a solid two days, I can fully see the benefits to having the scope mounted. I ran the entire course with the scope set on its lower power and didnt have a single issue with it. I even ran a few drills when the front lens cap closed to simulate an occulded weapon sight (think the old OEG sights). While I doubt I would place something like the Accupoint on all my rifles, it has certainly earned the right to rest on one of my primary rifles.

WHen it comes to pistols, Glocks seem to rule the day with 2 1911s being used along with a Sig or two. I dont persoanlly recall anyone's pistol going down during the class. I used my standard Glock 19 with Surefire X200 in a Bladetech OWB holster. 2 spare mags rounded out my pistol gear and rode in an Fobus dual mag pouch.

In the nylon department, again all kinds of gear was seen. It became readily apparent that some people had bought gear and was trying it out for the first time in this course (which is better than trying out for real). As I stated earlier a few people ditched their chest rigs for subloads and most of these guys said they much prefered the subload. Typically I run a Hellcat in classes like this, but I made the decision to drop the tactical ted getup and run a more "civlian"/"grab and go" setup. For this I used a "patrol bandolier" built by Eagle Industries. The bandolier holds 4 AR mags in 2 pockets and has 1 smaller pocket on each side of the 2 mag pouches for items like SUrefire lights, mini ALS smokes, or spare pistol mags. In the smaller pouches I ran spare pistol mags since this would closely mirror how I have the bandolier setup at home. Overall the pouch ran great with the exception of trying to stuff mags back into during various drills requiring tac reloads. The large front portion of velcro (soft side) continued to roll back into the pouch and hampered the rapid inserting of mags back into the pouch. This is something I'm continuing to try to address.

In closing the class was great, as I expected. This was my second rifle class from Tactical Response and I was happy to see new material being presented. It was great to see some familiar faces and meet new people that obviously have similar interests and a healthy desire to learn. The only think I would chnage if I weas able would have been my level of interaction with everyone. During all four days of the classes I was having to driving 2 hours to the range (following a full duty day the night before), shoot all day, drive two hours back home, sleep for about an hour, go back to work, and repeat the process the following day. Needless to say, I was quite tired by the end of Sunday (or should I say Monday morning when I got off work and was finally able to get some sleep).

I look forward to training with everyone again.

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This is right up.there with your "you guys hear of this safe act deal in NY."? Thread last week

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gym you have to own a firearm to take a class.

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James Yeager is the Donald Trump of the training world.
A loud mouth asshole who is going to fuck it up for everyone.

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Yeager is offering a service and seems many want the training.  What's to hate?

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gym you have to own a firearm to take a class.

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james yeager loves donald trump.

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nope.

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So many operators running around with AKs.


To operator for me.

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Trump/Bieber 2016

Somebody has a crush

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How many people have been shot?