Magpul Dynamics

[gos]

This was what I posted on ar15.com:

Just wanted to follow up (I took the class last month) and give a quick summary.

Background: I am not LE/Mil, background is about 1 year of shooting, I have taken 1 other 3-day handgun class.

This year apparently Magpul and Steve have revised the curriculum to focus more on fundamentals and less on more advanced techniques. Compared to my previous class, the focus of this class was much more on pure accuracy, and not "acceptable accuracy" or "combat accuracy". For every single drill, the only acceptable hits were to the 8" circles on the targets or to the brain triangle between the tip of the nose and the eyebrows. You shoot until you get your hits.

Every day (even the first) started & ended with 10 shots to an 8" bullseye at 25m with no time limit. Everyone in the class was a LOT better on day 3 than on day 1.

There was no rolling around in the dirt, urban prone, etc. On day 3 we did do some shooting and moving, but it was all standing up, and intended to be more informational on how your accuracy is hurt by movement.

We did hundreds of rounds worth of malfunction clearance drills which works the hands pretty hard, but is a great skill to practice. The technique taught for this was different than my previous class, much simpler. The drill setup is a lot less artificial, with every one of us having to clear real, hard malfunctions under simulated pressure.

The day 2 walk-back competition was fun, with three of us hitting the steel plate at 125m, and one of us hit the plate at 150m. They did a good job mixing in a few speed & accuracy competition drills throughout the class for a little friendly competition, with magpul gear as the prizes. An ACS stock was awarded for one of them, a hat for another.

2 instructors for the class, and most of the time we were divided into two relays so that it was 10 shooters on the line with 2 instructors. This gave a lot of individual attention for people with questions or who needed help with a technique or a drill.

Round count (for me) was about 1200, but it would vary based on the loadout you bring to the line. Most of the time I was loaded with 4 spare mags. For people who had fewer mags on them for each drill, their round count was probably closer to 1000.

All in all, highly recommended for a level-1 handgun class. Wasn't what you see in the DVDs from a few years ago, but it definitely improved my shooting quite a bit. I will definitely attend another one.

––gos

[lowbeyond]

This year apparently Magpul and Steve have revised the curriculum to focus more on fundamentals and less on more advanced techniques. Compared to my previous class, the focus of this class was much more on pure accuracy, and not "acceptable accuracy" or "combat accuracy". For every single drill, the only acceptable hits were to the 8" circles on the targets or to the brain triangle between the tip of the nose and the eyebrows. You shoot until you get your hits.

good review, i actually like this structure better.

There was no rolling around in the dirt, urban prone, etc.

While fun, i always did find this stuff as not that useful, maybe its just me.. That being said, it was fun to shoot thru, under, and around travis' truck

to bad bruce gray doesn't have a class in CO, id take his class again...