Quote Originally Posted by soco11 View Post
Hey coloccw,
Just a thought from my perspective. I like the description of the class and I would definitely jump onboard but for one thing--the cost of the ammo. I understand (I am a competitive shooter) that you actually have to shoot in these classes...but 850 rounds is looking at well into the hundreds of dollars of ammo, if it can even be found in that quantity (which it still can't in some locals). Add that to the price of the class, the price of getting there and the other costs and the cost becomes really significant. I don't doubt for a moment that it is a great class from the description but these are hard times and ammo is almost as precious as gold....
Why not cut the number of rounds required down some? Many of the national trainers have done so over the past couple years as ammo got so expensive and difficult to find. My own feeling, having attended many, many training classes over the years, is that nothing can be learned shooting 850 rounds that can't be learned shooting 500 rounds. And 500 rounds is alot more relaxing and enjoyable in that it allows a person to actually slow fire and practice good technique rather than just ripping off rounds in the general direction of the target.
Soco11,

I appreciate your concerns and perhaps this will address your concerns. The round count is derived from the number of drills that are run throughout the course for each block of instruction. The numbers we use come from the average number of rounds that students have used in the past. 750 is a recommendation, more is better. If you can not, for whatever reason, acquire the recommended number of rounds, no problem. Less rounds means that you will have to be a bit conservative during the class. If availability is the issue, let us know and we can assist with that (Walmart has lots here for $40 per 100). As far as the class price, that is fixed based upon our prices for Law Enforcement. It would be a dishonor to the LE community to offer similar training to them for a higher price; their budgets are dimishing as well. If there are any other concerns you have, please let me know and I will see how we can help out.

Hope to see you there!
Stay Safe...