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[seanb]

Hi, my name is sean, I live up in the Bothell/ mill creek area about 20 minutes north of seattle. I'm new to tactical shooting but i have 2 rifles (AR and a VZ.58) a shotgun and several handguns. I am very interested in getting into some competitive shooting for fun now that I have the fundamentals of shooting down.

[bkb0000]

Hi all I am John, married with 3 children. Former 8404 grunt doc, ex ID LEO, reserve WA LEO. Currently work as an analyst for munitions corporation. Live in SE WA state. Moved here from L.A. about 15 years ago. Primary training is CQB pistol, shotgun, rifle/carbine. Do some LR as well. Also breaching specialist(yeah I could swing a door hammer good). Anyways cheers, don't do as much training as I want, have 2 daughters under 2 yrs old so wife has me short leashed.

Glad to be here!

welcome

Everett WA resident here. Name is Fernan, new to AR's, just got mine about 3 months ago and probably have about 1000 rounds thru her. Been shooting on and off for about 15 years, primarily pistols. Active duty Navy for 20 years now. Only formal training I've had is with the military back in 1995 when I was in Pearl Harbor as a member of the Base Security Force. I shoot at Sam's. Looking forward to participating on future training and drills with both AR's and pistols. Good to be here!
MotoServDog

glad to have you

My name is Ryan and I am from the Puyallup/South Hill area.
Ex 19kilo back in 1998 and have been working in the "industry" since 1999 as part of a sewn nylon manufacturing company.
Just purchased my own Carbine back in January, but since my training ended back over a decade ago my skill are a bit outdated

bienvenida

Hi, my name is sean, I live up in the Bothell/ mill creek area about 20 minutes north of seattle. I'm new to tactical shooting but i have 2 rifles (AR and a VZ.58) a shotgun and several handguns. I am very interested in getting into some competitive shooting for fun now that I have the fundamentals of shooting down.

good to meet you


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you're all from WA... i don't have anything against you guys, but i think it's probably seriously time for a WA sub-forum. you vashintonyans outnumber us oreganoians.

[jklaughrey]

BKB come on now sir we won't hold your "back asswards" state government against you, as long as you don't hold our left wing pacifist governor against us. You can always move up here with us, of course you will have to keep your Oregon home for your Reg. SBR's, mine are in Idaho hehe.

[wichaka]

I'm in Washington as well, but am closer to most of the Oregon folks, distance wise.

Me thinks most of the WA. people are up in the Puget Sound area?

[bkb0000]

PNW Calendar of events thread up- please post local, regular events which you have information about:

http://m4carbine.net/showthread.php?p=690462#post690462

[oltmann]

Howdy all. I'm Kevin Oltmann from Vancouver.

Haven't done a lot of moving and shooting, just Practical Rifle at the Tri County Gun Club. I normally focus most of my energy on long range shooting. Always looking for a chance to learn new skills and shoot.

Hope to join up with the PNW group at a shoot this summer.

[bkb0000]

Howdy all. I'm Kevin Oltmann from Vancouver.

Haven't done a lot of moving and shooting, just Practical Rifle at the Tri County Gun Club. I normally focus most of my energy on long range shooting. Always looking for a chance to learn new skills and shoot.

Hope to join up with the PNW group at a shoot this summer.

welcome, Kevin. we're still trying to get a date nailed down, but one will be happening soon.

ETA- and we're definitely the place to get some CQB/move-n-shoot practice in... that's pretty much all we do. we also shoot quite a bit of pistol, and i've started incorporating CCW drills into the events.

[SCTSQRL]

Chad here. I'm also over at the NWFA regional board. I'm down in Eugene, and bounce around the valley alot - at least along the corridor. I shoot practical handgun down here with EPS, but haven't done much group carbine training - would like to change that. Great to see that the NW contingent is so healthy here - kicking myself for not getting to the Magpul stuff that you guys have pulled together.

[kaltesherz]

I'm Alex, just moved to Seattle from Ft Campbell, KY. Before I joined the Army I grew up and spent most of my adult life in San Diego, so I lived a sorry existence as a California gun nut. Spent 3 years in the Infantry and was lucky enough to be in a heavy weapons company. While I've qualified or carried in combat pretty much every weapons system in the U.S. Army (M4/M203/M249/M240B/M9/M14/M2/MK19/M500/AT4) we got very little practical training that wasn't on a restrictive range (and no, the two-way ranges didn't make up for that either). When we got back from Afghanistan we got a new battalion commander when was a big competition nut and introduced some new "running and gunning"training that was semi-useful, but it was still big army aka dumbed down, ridiculous, and no fun. I think the closest thing I ever did to fun training was Squad Designated Marksman school which was 3 weeks of shooting the living shit out of my M14 for 3 weeks on KD and UD ranges. Sounds like alotta fun till you throw in I did this in Jan/Feb at Campbell and frozen ground seems a little colder when you're lying prone on it for 9 hours a day.

I've always wanted to take a Magpul or Vickers class but couldn't afford it then, def can't afford it now that I just ETS'd, but would like to get together and do some carbine and pistol training. I've only been to one range up here so far, the Bellevue Gun Club, which is by far the nicest and most high-speed in-door range I've ever been to. Only problem is they require a $275 yearly membership to shoot rifles and right now considering both myself and the wife are unemployed it's not going to swing. So it looks like the only training I'll be getting now is getting my ass-kicked on Call Of Duty by some 12 year-old.
FML.

Hopefully I'll find a part-time job soon (start school in Sept) and can meet up with you guys so we can talk shop and put some lead downrange.

[bkb0000]

welcome alex. thanks for your service, glad you made it back. i'm a retired 11b myself, and can relate with your military training frustrations. i was MEB'd out early in my career, and i suspect it got at least a little better after i left, but i can remember waiting and waiting for "real" stand-up fight training, and it never coming. at the same time, i was young, green, and ignorant, and didn't even know what i didn't know.

we're currently scheduling for a July (maybe August, now) shoot. i may have already linked you the thread in another thread, but here it is again.

http://m4carbine.net/showthread.php?p=702407#post702407