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NCPatrolAR
03-31-13, 15:59
On 23 March 2013, Defensive Concepts North Carolina taught its Basic/Vickers Shooting Method Carbine course in Carthage NC. In attendance were 17 students that came from varying backgrounds with a huge mixture of experience levels. To make the day even more interesting; there was a huge variety of weapons being used. Weapons being used included: AE-15s, Mini-14, several M1 Carbines, an AR10, a HK MR556A1, and a Ruger 10-22.

The class began with the usual introductions and medical briefing. Once this was completed, the students hit the range and began the process of zeroing their carbines. As usual, the zeroing process took approximately 1 hour to complete. While it is expected for people to show up to a level 1 course with a non-zero’ed gun, it pays to zero the gun prior to the class if it all possible.

Once zeroing was complete, the class began working on various topics such as shooting from the standing position, bringing the gun up from low ready, proper target areas on the body, and shooting from 3 different kneeling positions. This took the class to lunch and with that everyone took a much needed break and spent time decompressing from the morning’s material.

After lunch, we briefly went over the high points of the morning material then pushed into topics such as emergency reloads and malfunction clearing. Once 1700 rolled around, everyone was physically and mentally spent and the class concluded with countless satisfied students headed back to where they came from (some as far as Ohio).

NCPatrolAR
03-31-13, 16:00
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ChrisCross
04-23-13, 18:08
The fiancee and I had taken their VSM Hangun class last year (excellent class as well) and wanted to learn more about our AR's.

Just wanted to say thanks to Chris and Steve for putting on a great class. The fiancee and I were AR tyros and they got us up, comfortable with the system and shooting well (I thought so anyway :D) by the end of the course. Went over a range of things including zeroing, mortaring a stuck round (never seen that before) and the drills at the end of the class clearing malfunctions after a short sprint. This was pretty interesting since there were a large number of different guns to practice on (AK, AR-10, 10-22, Mini 14's M1a's etc) other then AR's.

Chris and Steve were great and I would recommend the class to anyone beginner - expert. Sadly I think alot of what they know/talked about was over my head at the time but that just means we'll be back again (if they'll have us) :smile: