Libercontrarian

Crushed between the wheels of capitalism and big government.

Discovered: a shooting school, right here in sunny Colorado!

I have a neighbor friend I will call Dave. I have injected poor Dave with an evil and insidious infection known as Black Rifle Disease. I have taken this poor bloke to the range a few times and have let him shoot some AR-15s, my Carbon 15 (what a rifle!), and my G-3/HK91 and HK-93 clones, and on the last shoot, he nearly collapsed from lust over the experience.

Dave is a successful single man who's looking for love in all the right places; i.e. gun shops. He is now primarily looking for The One, that special bond a man makes with a battle-rifle, so his heart is now set on finding an AR-10 of some sort... He likes the feeling he gets when he shoots the AR-15 but wants to "dual-use" the weapon as a personal protection/hunting gun, so the AR-10 is the natural choice, being offered in .308 AND with a 5-round magazine for the law-abiding sportsman.

In searching for a good deal on Dave's gun for him (it's gotten so that I can't get through a day without one of my friends asking me to help them find the right gun for them, mount a scope to one I have built for them, or to teach them pistol basics) I discovered that there's a rifle school that teaches the Art of the Long Gun to the military and the police organizations, and have now offered courses to endow the Great Unwashed such as myself with their valued knowledge.

The school is called PRW, which stands for Precision Rifle Workshop, and it has been created as a traveling school for Front-Range area shooting ranges. In their civilian offering, this school has in its cirricula, courses ranging from pure-D "this here's tha BIDNESS END, what the bullets come outta!" to advanced long-range shooting against moving targets, called "PRW-Hunter 1000," with this mouth-watering description:

"Put that favorite hunting rifle and your shooting skills to the test.  PRW will take you out and let you shoot from 100 to 1000 yards.  We'll show you what you and your rifle are capable of one on one with a PRW Instructor.  Unknown distance training and moving targets. We don't expect you to shoot your game at 1000 yards, but this will be a huge confidence builder for that 350 yard shot. (120 rounds) ($350 One Long 12-14 hour Day)"

Sounds pretty exciting, doesn't it? I am eager to see how my "go-to" long-range rifle would handle this course. Clearly, the man behind the boomstick will be the primary factor in successfully completing such a course, and while I have plenty of trigger time, it's never been as a result of formal training. I'd certainly learn a thing or twelve. There's a more basic course which might be less of a challenge for me to take on called PRW Hunter Advanced. If you've ever read my blog, you'll understand that I don't point the Business End at anything that isn't threatening me, and as the Safeways continue to stock beef cow, I doubt that starvation would drive me to hunt, but... it's good to be prepared.

Anyway, more to come on Dave's descent into Black Rifle Madness and the school. Once Dave gets his shootin' ahron, I think I'm gonna cajole the hapless feller into taking that course with me.

posted by: underwhelmed at March 12, 2008 20:27 | link | comments |

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