good ol days of training over?

[Nocaster]

I am not seeing a shortage of classes. Mostly a shortage of money and time to take all the classes I want. Currently I am good for 3 classes per two years.

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[taliv]

The regional training group forums are pretty dead, but you can try posting there and see if anyone bites. I would like to see them be more active. Where are you located?

East TN

[Hank6046]

thanks! well that makes me feel a lot better, though it sucks having to go to FB for anything. Is there a non-communist forum out there with class announcements? (the arfcom training forum is even more dead than here) or suggestions on where to get plugged back in?

TBH i'd like to do a class or two just to see how they've changed and what new techniques the cool kids are using, but some sort of group study monthly local session would be much preferred

ha! only for laughs hopefully you didn't bedazzle your jeans jk!!!

I didn't bedazzle my jeans but I did find an accessory or knife to stick into every pocket of my 5.11's

[SteyrAUG]

I have found the most practical way to do this is to form a shooting club and then arrange a "league night" with one of the local ranges.

[Hank6046]

East TN

There are tons of training opportunities around you. Valor Ridge, Tactical Rifleman (KY), and others. I personally never get down there and haven't taken any classes from these people but I hear good things. I would look at the Eagle Eye shoot complex south of Nashville, it looks like Runenation and Baer Solutions are doing a Concealed Carry Pistol course in October.

[The Dumb Gun Collector]

The lame ass that used to arrange all my training classes got too lazy to schedule them. SAM

[Achilles11B]

The classes are out there. For me, the hurdle has been ammo, but that will pass eventually.

[Buncheong]

All of the instructors I was interested in were booked solid for several months or a year long before Wuhan virus, riots, etc., anyway. There was no signing up.

So it’s same ol’, same ol’ for me ...

[OH58D]

I must not be in the same league as some of the shooters here, but since retiring the end of 1999, I have not set foot on a firing range, nor taken any formal firearms training classes. I guess I never felt the need for it after spending so many years deploying here and there worldwide, while heavily armed in one way or another.

I've seen plenty of Gunsite videos and that place always made sense to me because of it's location in Arizona. All the tactical moves, the various firing positions, reloads, etc., looked like fun, but I'm not a full-time LE member so I don't face the tough underbelly of society on a daily basis. I am proficient in the sidearm and rifle/carbine, but I guess you can always learn new stances and repetitive reflex actions that make you a better gunfighter.

The wife and youngest daughter do mounted cowboy action shooting, and that is quite impressive shooting targets from a horse at full gallop.

[SteyrAUG]

I must not be in the same league as some of the shooters here, but since retiring the end of 1999, I have not set foot on a firing range, nor taken any formal firearms training classes. I guess I never felt the need for it after spending so many years deploying here and there worldwide, while heavily armed in one way or another.

If I had the time and money I'd love to take a few classes with some famous names just to do it. Kind of like the people who pay money to take a NASCAR class and a few laps with whoever is the race king to those folks.

But personally I like to do staged shooting at least bi monthly just so I feel like I'm maintaining. Nothing huge, 10 stages and a couple hundred rounds covering all the basics. I like to know what I'm mostly capable of "right now" so I don't run my ass into a situation where I'm actually going to be in over my head. Also if I have to bet all the marbles I want to feel like I'm at least current.