Threat Dynamics In Portland Area

[bzdog]

You probably need a more regionally focused forum.

There is a regional forum called Northwest Firearms Community that has a business reviews section. You might check/ask there.

OTOH, the regional forums tend to have a higher noise ratio.

-john

[sproc]

I haven't been yet, but here is some feedback from the Vuurwapen blog.

I did a search on a regional forum (northwestfireams.com), but the vast majority of the posts were by people whose opinions I doubt most of us would value.

[quackhead]

I didn't get a good vibe when I was just in there. The guy behind the counter was " beating his chest" to impress a female customer who was interested in learning to shoot/ defend herself. I'm pretty sure he was pushing a "woman's gun" on her as opposed to teaching fundamentals and how to handle a pistol suitable for her needs. I was in there for a short time and was not impressed

[strambo]

On the off-chance anyone still cares...I went there with my wife and we did a whole bunch of scenarios to include the 300 degree simulator. I have had a ton of training, her just a 2 day defensive handgun course. She did extremely well, good situational awareness, trigger control, and accuracy. The video scenario training is great and well-worth adding to your training on occasion since the force on force aspect is both the most important and most difficult aspect to train. The staff "driver" of the simulators was good as well from a technical aspect and he had a good customer service rapport. He didn't ask our training background to tailor the simulators to us and I felt he should have asked if we were carrying since it is a shall-issue CCW state and we were going into a no-ammo training environment.

I don't go to indoor ranges so I can't comment on that, or the gun store, or the classes. The video simulators are definitely worth the time and expense on occasion. I wouldn't use them to substitute for range time though