If you get a chance to take a course at Cawthon Cartridge Club be sure you pack a lunch. Bring your own coffee and water, as well. The facility is still a work in progress. I would have also like to have seen marked distances on the range rather than having to guess all the time. And you have to pick up all the brass when class is over. Otherwise, it’s a great place to train.
The “AK Guy” is an instructor at a new school called Gravick Ranch in South Texas. I’ll email him and see if he will let me put his address up here. He made me want an AK.
The dude with the SureFire Mini is a Jr. in High School and can shoot about 10x better than me.
I had a great time in the class and learn a lot about shooting the carbine. LAV gave us some great drills to take home and practice to improve on our own. He runs an informative class, but it is pretty loosely structured. As a military instructor in a different type of career field (highly structured), that was an adjustment for me. Flexibility is the key!
The team drills were great. Adding the stress of being on a team really enhanced my focus and made me strive to make every shot count.
A great class and it was a pleasure to meet everyone there. Huge thanks for LAV for coming to teach and GG and CCC for hosting and arranging everything.
some quick notes from the class:
-LAV is a hilarious smartass and his teaching style is awesome. If he doesn’t like something (optics, tactical doodads) he’ll be sure to let you know. He knows what works and what doesn’t.
-The speedbumps on the bridge ate the bottom of my car alive going to the range
-Team drills are awesome and definitely made me try my hardest not to let the team down
-Definitely pack a lunch if going to cawthon range, me and my friends almost didn’t until a class mate recommended that we bring some powerbars and some snack JIC. Thankfully we did otherwise we’d have been screwed since nothing is remotely closeby.
-I wish I could redo the shooting on the move drill where my gun malfunctioned and i forgot to transition…“monkey fucking a football” indeed as I fumbled to clear it and wasted so much time
-Thanks to the Laredo guys for being cool and also letting me run your 212 can on my rifle.
Great first class for me and my friends, and definitely not the last for sure…
Damn man, I KNEW he looked young as hell but I didn’t wanna be rude, lol, I thought he was just one of those dudes who aged very slowly!
Makes a LOT of sense now! The guns/kit he was running was pretty badass, lucky little shit! I never knew a single damn person at that age with anything even remotely as cool as all that.
And yeah, I saw you giving me the “You’re #1!” sign while editing the pics a couple days after class, gave me a good laugh!
Actually I think that’s what LAV was running if I’m not mistaking it. I know it was a red dot on his 1911, just not sure which brand though. I got some video of him running it. I’ll post if sometime this week. This shit (video) takes a lot longer than pics though.
It was a deltapoint on a G19. He had it out after lunch on TD1. I asked him what happened to the RMR and he said that it had zero shift issues on him. Also, just for everyone’s information, LAV commented that he believes we are still a ways off from companies perfecting the RDS for handguns. I will withhold judgment until I can get my hands on one for some T&E.
I actually held LAV pistol for a brief period and did a couple of draws from holster. It does take a little learning curve to find the dot. Two Squeeze was right, it was a deltapoint with Bowie’s custom job on the frame and rear sight in front of the RDS. I thought it was G17. Paul you missed out cause you were in the shitter! LOL
Brad W.
