nstassel
NES Member
After sitting on a gift card at Sig Academy I finally used it for an intermediate rifle class they call Rifle Mechanics. I picked this class since I'm familiar with my AR rifles but have never taken any formal training with them even though I have shot them a bit and have owned AR rifles for many years. In preparation for the class I took off the SPARC red dot and replaced it with a 1-6 primary arms optic and sighted that in so I wouldn't make a fool of myself. I could have easily taken the class with the red dot though now that I've taken it.
The instructors were Jon Carlson and (I think) Andy Delorey. Both were excellent instructors and nice guys to hang around with for the day. After basic safety rules and paperwork, there was an hour or so in the class room discussing sighting in distances which was interesting to me but repetitive for me a bit. Then discussion of the basic operations of an AR rifle. We then went to a 50 yard range.
Outside those who needed gear or ammo took it. The ammo was very reasonable so rather than use my own, I shot Sig ammo. 10 bucks a box nowadays was fair I think. We then did some prone shooting and sighted in the rifles and worked on general marksmanship. We then shot the guns close for hold under. The we shot standing from 5-50 yards.
After the lunch break we worked on malfunction clearing drills with dummy rounds and a mix of live and dummy rounds. We then worked on reloading from retention techniques. We were taught transitions and shot some two and three target transitions. Then we learned shooting from kneeling and sitting positions. We shot a lot of steel in the afternoon. All together there was 250 rounds or so.
I would recommend this course greatly to anyone looking to expand their MSR skills.
The instructors were Jon Carlson and (I think) Andy Delorey. Both were excellent instructors and nice guys to hang around with for the day. After basic safety rules and paperwork, there was an hour or so in the class room discussing sighting in distances which was interesting to me but repetitive for me a bit. Then discussion of the basic operations of an AR rifle. We then went to a 50 yard range.
Outside those who needed gear or ammo took it. The ammo was very reasonable so rather than use my own, I shot Sig ammo. 10 bucks a box nowadays was fair I think. We then did some prone shooting and sighted in the rifles and worked on general marksmanship. We then shot the guns close for hold under. The we shot standing from 5-50 yards.
After the lunch break we worked on malfunction clearing drills with dummy rounds and a mix of live and dummy rounds. We then worked on reloading from retention techniques. We were taught transitions and shot some two and three target transitions. Then we learned shooting from kneeling and sitting positions. We shot a lot of steel in the afternoon. All together there was 250 rounds or so.
I would recommend this course greatly to anyone looking to expand their MSR skills.
