OVERVIEW
At the end of the day the ARG Firearms Competency Course is a
pass or fail affair, and on this occasion we all passed and were
awarded our certificates!
My colleague really summed the whole thing up for me when
he emailed me the following morning: “I thoroughly enjoyed the
whole day, and even though we were running around inside
a range with loaded weapons, I felt safer than I have at some
commercial “shooting experience” days when there’s a RO with
his hand on your shoulder at all times.
Since I have no formal training experience and only limited
firearms experience, I was overjoyed. A perfect balance between
confidence-inspiring instruction/guidance and freedom to learn
at one’s own rate, without being “chewed out” by an overbearing
instructor. Consumate and confident professionalism on Bob and
Pauls part!”
A huge “thanks” to both Bob and Paul for having us, and to all the
course participants for making it such a great day. If the course
we attended was in any way indicative of the standards of ARG
training in general then I have to put my neck on the line and say
that if you go and train with them your money will be very, very
well spent.
FIRE
running these drills for a couple of hours it was then time for a
wee competition; this was run individually so the pressure was
really on to perform! The final competition consisted of moving
downrange between four firing points. At each point we took two
shots onto each of three turning targets, before moving forward
to the next point and repeating. Once the front point was reached
we then moved back uprange repeating the exercise.
Sound simple? Absolutely not! Not only were we moving and
firing, but Bob was scrutinizing us the whole time to ensure that
our muzzle security and safety were 100% spot on. He also threw
a wee “fudge factor” into the exercise by having us load two
magazines, one with 20 rounds and one with 16 rounds; he then
muddled them up so we didn’t know which was which. At some
point we knew we’d have to perform a magazine change, but we
didn’t have a clue when!
Suffice to say that everyone came through with flying colours,
with a couple of the guys even performing pretty flawless
stoppage drills as well as the magazine change; the Smiths
performed superbly all day with very few issues at all given the
number of rounds that went downrange.
For more information on the courses offered by ARG Ltd visit their
website www.associatedrisksgroup.com
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