Rank Training Classes & What Worked

[Kentucky]

I am hoping that a new job and a new AO will allow me to start taking more training classes this summer and fall. I have been reading up on many different class reviews and training schools, I thought I would throw this question out to the THR folks.

What classes have you taken/recommend/want to take?

What gear worked for you, what didnt work for you, and what did you observe about other students gear?

I already know that I want to attend one of Long Range International's courses for precision shooting. Several of Gabe Suarez's classes are also high on my list. A Pat Rogers carbine course, and the WRSA medical course seem very practical as well. Looking forward to hearing others experiences and opinions.

 

[sidheshooter]

Sounds like you have thought it through a bit on your own.

So far as a random recommendation, I'd say Ayoob's original LFI-1 and any highly reputed shooting school by anyone else.

Lots of good shooters out there at this point. LFI is not a hot-shot shoot n' loot school, but it will surprise the heck out of you what you do learn there. It goes waaay beyond in the gravest extreme (or a subscription to guns, or an internet forum).

LFI-1 for legal and ethical, and someone else solid from the en vogue crop to teach manipulation and tactics; the ultimate 1-2 punch, IMHO.

Just one opinion.

 

[Tim Burke]

The legal and ethical portion of LFI-1 is well covered in the 2-day Judicious Use of Deadly Force.
Other Recommendations:
For improving your shooting, Randy Cain or Louis Awerbuck.
For working on speed, Bill Rogers.
For fighting with the gun, Bill Jeans and Scotty Reitz.
For a fixed site experience, Gunsite.
There are also a number of other itinerant instructors providing top tier instruction, including Tom Givens, out of Memphis; John Farnam, and InSights Training, Greg Hamilton's school out of Issaquah, WA.
This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, but these are all schools that I've trained with on multiple occasions, and for which I can give unqualified recommendations.

 

[sidheshooter]

I can personally vouch for Greg Hamilton's teaching as well.

 

[possum]

i have take courses fron, Rob Pincus (combat focus shooting). blackwater, TDI Ohio, Tactical response. all of them had there place, and of those schools i have taken handgun courses at all of them, Combat Focus shooting was by far the best handgun course that i have ever been too. i can reccomend all the above with confidence, but i can say without a doubt that the cfs program is the best that you can get into (handgun) imho.

tactical response was good. but cfs was head and shoulders better.

what works? my xd has worked, and my glocks, my bushmaster, my remington 870, blade tech holsters, factory mags, and factory ammo. grease to lube the guns, lithium high temp as a matter of fact.