Tough Training
I just returned from four days in the Nevada desert training hard with the M9 pistol. I borrowed a Beretta 92F from a friend and put over 600 rounds through it while wearing the body armor that I need to fight with the next time I deploy. The Front Sight instructors were great and I improved my pistol skills dramatically during the challenging course.
Although the weather sucked, including howling winds and 6 hours of firing in snow/slush mix (see the picture), having friends at the course with me helped out a bunch and made it tolerable. Randy, James, Joe, Adam, Tom, and Jim (who i met for the first time on the trip) were a blast to train with. Adam even drove us out there in his palatial RV.
More pictures on my Flickr account (link on the right)
Now it's back to my other job... IT manager.
Although the weather sucked, including howling winds and 6 hours of firing in snow/slush mix (see the picture), having friends at the course with me helped out a bunch and made it tolerable. Randy, James, Joe, Adam, Tom, and Jim (who i met for the first time on the trip) were a blast to train with. Adam even drove us out there in his palatial RV.
More pictures on my Flickr account (link on the right)
Now it's back to my other job... IT manager.
posted at 12/16/2008 10:47:00 PM
2 Comments:
I'd like a shoot off. I have the Ft Richards combat pistol record, unofficially. The range control guy said I broke the best he's seen.
9M I'm darn good, 44M is a different story. Hurts the hand, except when the bear was running at you :-(
Rodger
I heard that place is a great but expensive school to train at. Must have been cool to get that many friends to go at the same time.
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