John McPhee 2-Day “Gunner” Heavy Carbine Marksmanship Class - Sept 15-16, 2012 - WI

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John McPhee 2-Day “Gunner” Heavy Carbine Marksmanship Class - Sept 15-16, 2012 - Racine, WI

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SGM(ret) John McPhee served a distinguished career in U.S. Army Special Operations for over 20 years, retiring in 2011.

John has spent his adult life in Special Operations and Special Mission Units. He is a Master Instructor in all aspects of special activities, missions and operations. He has over 6 years of private special activities consulting and is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in: Special Activities, Operational Preparations, Limited Signature Operations, Reconnaissance, Singleton Operations, High Threat Dignitary Protective Services, Extreme Long Range, Designated Marksman, Advanced Precision Rifle Marksmanship, Combat Marksmanship, Live Fire CQB/CQC, Advanced Pistol Marksmanship, Advanced Carbine Marksmanship, Ariel Gunnery (Rifles, Shotguns, Ariel Personnel and Vehicle Interdictions, Mechanical, Ballistic and Explosive Breaching, Freefall Instructor Programs, Infiltration/ Exfiltration Techniques, Ground Mobility, Unit Pre-Deployment Training, and Research and Development of; Soldier Systems, Weapons, Ammunition, Thermal and Night Optics.

Qualifications;
Special Forces Target Interdiction Course
US Army Sniper School
NRA Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun, Instructor
NRA Range Safety Officer
Advanced Mountain Sniper Course, Instructor
Advanced Freefall, Instructor (Ratings Current)
Freefall Coach (Ratings Current)
California Personal/ Executive Body Guard Certification (Rating Current)
2005 Budweiser World Cup Super Heavyweight Jiu-Jitsu Champion
2004 Presidential Security Detail (Ariel Heavy) Cartagena, Colombia

He has trained countless U.S. Special Operations forces, thousands of International Tier 1 Operators and Special Forces around the world. He is one of the handful of operators with over a decade of combat having served in multiple theaters from Bosnia and South America to recent war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Alias Training & Security Services
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John McPhee 2-Day Heavy Carbine Marksmanship Class - Sept 15-16, 2012 - Racine, WI

2-Day “Gunner” (Heavy Carbine Marksmanship) course is designed to teach you to make the SHOT and do it in as little time as possible. Being accurate is final but being accurate in seconds or less is better.

In this course you will mount, level, zero, and shoot several courses of fire. You will do this with your gear. Bring what you have; we will make you good with it. Learn to use your rifle, scope, reticle and any accessories for them. Shoot for accuracy; true your gun, with your zero, skill and making the SHOT in fractions of a second. Engage from different shooting positions, analyze the mechanics of each one, and practice for time. Learn to estimate range, wind and shoot rapidly. Learn from your misses where the shot went, why and correct for a hit in seconds or less. Use hold offs, hold under, and holdovers to better increase your time to accurately hit your target. Learn to correctly and rapidly reload, correct malfunctions and stoppages to get back in the fight when seconds count.

Do these things while applying the Perfect Fundamentals of Marksmanship. Practice doesn’t make perfect, Perfect Practice Makes Perfect.

Topics covered:
- Basics of the Heavy Carbine Rifle
- Weapon manipulation
- Safety
- Load/ Reloads
- Unload / Clear weapon
- Scopes/Reticles
- Zeroing
- Ammo, Ballistics
- Fundamentals of Marksmanship;
- Stance; prone, kneeling standing
- Malfunctions
- Estimate range; Wind calculations
- Hold offs, Holds, Land-marking
- Mounting accessories
- Cleaning, Maintenance

**This class is open to; AR-10 platform guns in any caliber, AR-15 platform with 5.56 or larger caliber (SPR & RECCE type rifles), 7.62 or larger caliber Foreign weapons, 7.62 or larger caliber bolt guns (be ready to reload, haha).**

*** Bring a clean gun your first shot will be for Data.***

*** In this class you will be taking shots from contact to 600+ yards.***

Instructor: John McPhee

Class dates: Sept 15-16, 2012

Cost: $450

Location: RACINE, WI

Required weapons, gear, ammo round count list;
- Scope 1-4 power min, with any reticle - Red dot scope with magnifier also acceptable
- Number of rounds; 450
- 4 magazines
- Kneepads
- A way to carry 2 mags on your body
- Rifle sling
**Optional ballistic computer (will reference and use them)

To sign-up for this class please use this link;
http://aliastraining.com/johnmcphee2-dayheavycarbinemarksmanshipclass-sept15-162012-racinewi.aspx

If you have any additional questions please feel free to contact me;
Paul@aliastraining.com

[ErikL]

This should be a great class, looking forward to bringing John to the Chi-waukee area.

[SigFanM4]

Great news. I was registered via GG but sent an email to Paul about re-registering. It's rare to have such great training opportunities this close to Chicago.

[ErikL]

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[VA_Dinger]

Thanks guys, I know everyone is very excited to have this class back up and running agian.

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FYI: This world class John McPhee 2-Day “Gunner” Heavy Carbine Marksmanship Class is getting close and we do have seats available. If you are interested in attending please feel free to sign-up. As always if you have any questions please feel free to help. I am always available to help students.

Trust me; you guys are in for one hell of a class.

Thank you,

Paul

[Shawn.L]

For the guys going to this, come back with some feedback from John on recticals , using SPR type AR's in 5.56 for this class, and bolt gun users.
Id love to take this with my 3-gun rifle.

[SigFanM4]

I'll be using a MK12 Mod 1 SPR in 5.56 with a Nightforce 2.5-10x32 with a NP-R2 reticle for this class.

[Shawn.L]

I'll be using a MK12 Mod 1 SPR in 5.56 with a Nightforce 2.5-10x32 with a NP-R2 reticle for this class.

Im looking forward to hearing about the class. If you get feedback from John on some of the other optic choices available let us know.

[polymorpheous]

Lol.
Tactical Response will be at that range during that weekend as well.
Apples and oranges!

I'm already signed up for a different class in October.
I hope this one goes well and McPhee returns again soon.
I'd really like to get into some longer range stuff.

I look forward to reading any AAR's on this class.
Thanks again to ErikL for bringing these high caliber instructors to our area.

[Fontaine]

Looking forward to the class!

Will be running a SCAR-H with Elcan

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Looking forward to the class!

Will be running a SCAR-H with Elcan

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Damn awesome. :D

[SigFanM4]

Paul - Will you be sending out any email with course info (location, hotels, etc)? It's a week out and I haven't gotten any info yet. Did I miss an email?

[SigFanM4]

If only I'd waited a couple hours.....thanks Paul!

[Fontaine]

AMAZING class, cannot wait to see SGM McPhee's AAR and write one of my own.

One of the best classes I've been to, I hope to go to more GROM classes in the future.

GROM, being of course, the name of McPhee's new company. You're just gonna have to ask him what it means ;)

[SigFanM4]

It was a great class and I too will wait for John's AAR before submitting comments. I will say for now that I was a complete beginner on the AR platform, and by the end of the first morning I was shooting 1.5" groups at 100 yds. At the end of the second day, I was easily pinging the plate at 650 yds with both my 5.56 and John's 300 Win Mag. I learned a great deal and had a super time. Thanks, John and Sean.

[SigFanM4]

For the guys going to this, come back with some feedback from John on recticals , using SPR type AR's in 5.56 for this class, and bolt gun users.
Id love to take this with my 3-gun rifle.

To address these issues, I was using an MOA reticle (Nightforce with a NP-R2 reticle). John said that the Navy still uses these, but most of the world uses or is switching to MilDot reticles. At 5X magnification, my MOA reticle was essentially a MilDot reticle (1.14 Mil anyways - close enough for what we were doing - maybe not close enough out past 1000yds or for accurate ranging).

So I found the best of both worlds. The NP-R2 reticle was easy to use and to find and maintain holds and I was used to working off MOA, but I could go to 5X magnification and use the reticle as a mildot scope when it made sense (like when shooting with a partner who would call out corrections in mils.)

As for the 5.56 SPR at this class, I didn't have any problems. We shot out to 650 yards, which is stretching the max effective range for my Mk12 SPR, but I was able to successfully make the shot. Most of the shooting was from 100-300 yards, which was a piece of cake for the 5.56.

I shot about 550 rounds in the course, and that is match ammo, so from a cost perspective, the 5.56 has an advantage.

I would say the majority of the class used .308, but I didn't think I was at any disadvantage. John taught for both calibers, explaining ballistics and holds for both.

I wouldn't want to take a bolt gun to this class. Too much reloading.

[polymorpheous]

Just a heads up to the guys subscribed to this thread.

John McPhee's AAR:
http://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?p=1403186#post1403186