Another great class from Tactical Response.
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I came down for this with not much experience shooting past 300 yards. I wanted to get some training and practice in to stretch things out a bit further. The course really delivered.
I flew down from Canada with all of my gear and guns. For some reason the US Customs guys at YVR seemed to be more interested in my Canadian documentation than my BATFE Form 6NIA and other documents that I needed to bring my guns south. All of my paperwork was in order and other than some of my luggage deciding to stick around and spend a bit of extra time in Chicago while on the way to Nashville the trip went smoothly. Canadians should not view the border as a hindrance to taking courses down at Camden. It is remarkably simple to get the forms to travel with firearms down into the US. If you are too dimwitted to figure that out, Tactical Response can usually get them all squared away with guns, gear and ammo when they get there.
We ended up with a pretty small class which meant more time for shooting. Dave Keenom and Allen Webb were the instructors for the course with a brief visit from John Scarbrough as well.
Everybody was running .308 bolt guns with mildot type scopes of some variety. We also had some newer DPMS and Armalite .308 rifles that did not have many rounds through them prior to the class. The DPMS ran reliably but had inconsistent groups. Towards the end of the class it really seemed to tighten up a fair bit though. The Armalite had some ejection issues and was also quite inconsistent with it's accuracy.
The ammunition used was Lake City 7.62 M118LR, Federal GM 168gr, Black Hills 175gr, and a bit of Hornady TAP 168gr.
Thank you very much to the Yeagers for hosting us at the team room.
Day 1
We started the first day in the classroom. We went over introductions and safety plans. The it was time for some theory and then we were off to the range.
The initial distance was 100 yards where we could check zeros and work on some grouping exercises. Once that was sorted out we began working things out farther to 200 and 300 yards
Day 2
Back to the classroom in the beginning of the day to discuss some of the material that we covered the previous day and go over some new concepts as well.
Once we hit the range we did the cold bore shot at 100 yards and went over the 200 and 300 yard groups some more. We extended the distances out to 400 and 500 yards. To finish the day off we worked on doing mildot calculations for some MGM and Larue steel targets that were to be engaged at unknown distances between 200-500 yards.
Day 3.
We wrapped up the classroom material and got back out to the range. More cold bore shots and groups and 100 yards to begin with. From there it was closer distances of 75,50 and 25 yards. Positional shooting was also covered in depth. We did a short stalk where we had to move through an area and get set up in a position to engage a target without being observed by spotters equipped with binoculars and spotting scopes. Afterwards it was back to the main range to move the steel targets around a bit so we could recalculate their distances with the mildots and then engage them later on after the sun had set.
Day 4
Back to the range in the morning for the cold bore shot. Right from there it was on to a police qualification that involved some running and gunning at varied distances from 25-100 yards. We did another stalk to engage a steel target at an unknown distance. From there we moved on to getting hits on some steel targets at 600 and 700 yards.
Day 5
The final day started with us back at on the mound checking the cold bore shot. We ran through the police qualification course with a bit more physical exertion added to it. Another even longer stalk with simultaneous shots on multiple steel targets at unknown distances.
After that we spent some more time at the 600 and 700 yard positions. The steel got moved around again to be recalculated and fired upon.
www.tacticalresponse.com
I came down for this with not much experience shooting past 300 yards. I wanted to get some training and practice in to stretch things out a bit further. The course really delivered.
I flew down from Canada with all of my gear and guns. For some reason the US Customs guys at YVR seemed to be more interested in my Canadian documentation than my BATFE Form 6NIA and other documents that I needed to bring my guns south. All of my paperwork was in order and other than some of my luggage deciding to stick around and spend a bit of extra time in Chicago while on the way to Nashville the trip went smoothly. Canadians should not view the border as a hindrance to taking courses down at Camden. It is remarkably simple to get the forms to travel with firearms down into the US. If you are too dimwitted to figure that out, Tactical Response can usually get them all squared away with guns, gear and ammo when they get there.
We ended up with a pretty small class which meant more time for shooting. Dave Keenom and Allen Webb were the instructors for the course with a brief visit from John Scarbrough as well.
Everybody was running .308 bolt guns with mildot type scopes of some variety. We also had some newer DPMS and Armalite .308 rifles that did not have many rounds through them prior to the class. The DPMS ran reliably but had inconsistent groups. Towards the end of the class it really seemed to tighten up a fair bit though. The Armalite had some ejection issues and was also quite inconsistent with it's accuracy.
The ammunition used was Lake City 7.62 M118LR, Federal GM 168gr, Black Hills 175gr, and a bit of Hornady TAP 168gr.
Thank you very much to the Yeagers for hosting us at the team room.
Day 1
We started the first day in the classroom. We went over introductions and safety plans. The it was time for some theory and then we were off to the range.
The initial distance was 100 yards where we could check zeros and work on some grouping exercises. Once that was sorted out we began working things out farther to 200 and 300 yards
Day 2
Back to the classroom in the beginning of the day to discuss some of the material that we covered the previous day and go over some new concepts as well.
Once we hit the range we did the cold bore shot at 100 yards and went over the 200 and 300 yard groups some more. We extended the distances out to 400 and 500 yards. To finish the day off we worked on doing mildot calculations for some MGM and Larue steel targets that were to be engaged at unknown distances between 200-500 yards.
Day 3.
We wrapped up the classroom material and got back out to the range. More cold bore shots and groups and 100 yards to begin with. From there it was closer distances of 75,50 and 25 yards. Positional shooting was also covered in depth. We did a short stalk where we had to move through an area and get set up in a position to engage a target without being observed by spotters equipped with binoculars and spotting scopes. Afterwards it was back to the main range to move the steel targets around a bit so we could recalculate their distances with the mildots and then engage them later on after the sun had set.
Day 4
Back to the range in the morning for the cold bore shot. Right from there it was on to a police qualification that involved some running and gunning at varied distances from 25-100 yards. We did another stalk to engage a steel target at an unknown distance. From there we moved on to getting hits on some steel targets at 600 and 700 yards.
Day 5
The final day started with us back at on the mound checking the cold bore shot. We ran through the police qualification course with a bit more physical exertion added to it. Another even longer stalk with simultaneous shots on multiple steel targets at unknown distances.
After that we spent some more time at the 600 and 700 yard positions. The steel got moved around again to be recalculated and fired upon.
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Glad you had a blast down there.
