Long Range Shooting Schools and Instruction

[iron cat]

The best way to go into any of these specialized courses is to forget everything you know and learn what they teach you .
As far as stuff like muscle memory goes,
Rob has had students that had never shot centerfire guns to any extent at all , and by the end of the weekend were hitting at 1,000
The most difficult teach students I have ever encountered were ones that either could not get rid Of their bad habits or refuted what I was trying to teach them.
In the end they came away with nothing learned and also questioned my competency.
Cat

 

[old303]

If you've been around awhile you've already learned a lot of stuff, some good, some bad, some that may help as a foundation to the fine-tuning you're learning, some that may be applicable to a different discipline that gives you instincts that will hold you back from this new one, and some inapplicable enough to not get in the way. Sometimes the instructor's assumptions about shooting conditions are a bit different from what you'd been thinking and you have to understand what conditions lead to what conclusions and learn flexibility. But a lot of fundamentals apply at 20 yards as much as 1000.

 

[Desert Precision]

Copperhead Precision Rifle Training is another Alberta precision rifle training outfit ran by a great shooter and person

 

[corriganogjournalis]

Been a hunter, not really a shooter. I am going to invest some time and money for training in 2025, to become a better shooter. I will be investing in a new rifle for this endeavour.

The only shooting school I am aware of in Alberta is Rob Furlong Shooting School.

Does anyone know of anything else? Or a Instructor near Calgary that does lessons? Would travel for a 2-4 day shooting school.

I don't plan on shooting PRS, may explore NRL Hunter for fun. Really just looking to shoot long range with proper form.

Thanks

If you’re willing to travel a bit, honestly just pick a reputable course and go - there aren’t that many options in Canada anyway so most of the names that keep coming up are there for a reason.

RFMA gets mentioned a lot and for good reason. Same with the other outfits people listed. From what I’ve seen and heard, the biggest difference isn’t really the distance you’ll shoot, it’s how they teach fundamentals (position, wind reading, data, etc.)

 

[sprint]

Ben Klick S64 Riflecraft
Master Sniper. Patrol Pathfinder. Somalia veteran.
The easiest translation is that Ben is part of a small body that maintained and developed the sniping curriculum for the CF.

A well known friend of mine with a notable reputation in the CF and a strong background in MOI once explained to me that Ben’s real strength came from vocabulary to impart concepts to the learner.

I prefer to steal a little bit from Steve Serdachny (IYKYK) who said: “There are lots of schools you can go to learn to skate from someone great. I will make you into a great skater”.

Ben walked in company of many giants of CF marksmanship. Dave Oakie. Blake Ives. Wayne Jure. Amazing personal resume. The important part is this tho. No matter what level you shoot at, Ben will improve your game.


Also strongly recommend Joel Blackburn at Echo Precision. Combat diver. Somalia veteran. Accomplished ELR competitor, Outstanding human.

I’m no ELR shooter. Not even a rank beginner. But you might lean that way. Joel really helped me with reloading bench concepts.


RFMA is a great academy and you can’t go wrong with anyone Rob has vetted. From time to time I think Ive seen legendary guys like Graham Ragsdale teaching there. This is kind of the way of connecting into the community. You’re going to meet folks who walked in a particular set of shoes for a while. There was a time you could walk into one of Jacob Bynums classes at Rifles Only and find out your instructor is Nic Irving.

I don’t personally know C/S66. But I know some pretty switched on guys that have commented on it’s founder’s “spooky” ability to call wind.

No matter which of these groups you connect with to learn from, you are becoming part of a connected community invested in a tradition of passing deep rifleman’s knowledge from one generation to the next.

Get out there and train.