"Why train on wobbly targets?" CCA blog Dec 15, 2011
When you can Train for the Real World at Frontier Firearms.
With two indoor shooting
ranges each fully equipped with the best target system in the world, the
same one used at the FBI Training Academy called ATS - the turning,
moving Active Target system, Frontier offers shooters the
advantage of training against smart targets that rush, run, turn and
move as well as stationary and reactive falling targets.
Unfortunately for old ranges
built before shall-issue handgun permits and before instructors
understood the needs of civilians preparing for self-defense carry, times have
changed and shooting at stationary targets dangling from string doesn't provide the real world experience needed to develop gun fighting skills.
BEWARE of clerks, range
operators, and so-called instructors who put down or argue against moving
target systems for they may have only $$ in mind and not your ability to win a gun
fight.
Indeed, today ALL
competent firearms instructors insist their students work out and drill against both
stationary AND moving targets - that is if they expect a fighting chance to
live through a confrontation involving handguns.
Furthermore, despite ridiculous claims of local range clerks and "instructors"
at ranges without moving target systems, assailants in the
"real world" never stand still so you can blast away at them.
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| Typical Equipment Carried by Officers |
WARNING! Don't be duped into believing
ex-cops make the best civilian firearms instructors. The world of
Law Enforcement and Civilian carry are miles apart. In fact, much of what
policemen are taught and teach must be "unlearned" in the civilian world.
While some police officers successfully make the transition from law enforcement to civilian training, there is no guarantee that former police officers make good civilian trainers. Dreaming up a tactical sounding corporation name gives no advantage in the field of civilian firearms training. Barking orders and bossing around 18 year police recruits doesn't translate to the world of non-law enforcement civilian carry or training.
Once out of basic Police Academy the average officer receives very little training with firearms. Most spend one or two days a year "qualifying" with their duty firearm. Then when allowed advanced firearms training, it's almost always spent working in
teams or squads learning to overwhelm civilian "adversaries" with military weaponry and tactics. Officers are taught to use and depend up superior equipment and firepower when confronted by potentially deadly situations. They wear ballistic body armor, are in constant radio contact with backup,
and utilize duty-belts and patrol cars chocked full of sophisticated and high-powered weaponry.
Moreover, policemen, unlike civilians have the full force and weight of the Government behind them. As a result they can and often do draw their weapons whenever they feel a threat or report of a threat warrants it. Whereas a civilian would go to jail for doing the same.
The simple truth is that policemen do a job that requires unique training and skills that too often have little application for non-law enforcement personnel. Policemen are trained to operate under completely different set of rules than the ones a civilian must live by.
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| Policemen train in teams |
While some police officers successfully make the transition from law enforcement to civilian training, there is no guarantee that former police officers make good civilian trainers. Dreaming up a tactical sounding corporation name gives no advantage in the field of civilian firearms training. Barking orders and bossing around 18 year police recruits doesn't translate to the world of non-law enforcement civilian carry or training.
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| LE depend on firepower and superior equipment. |
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| Civilians cannot rely upon force and teamwork |
Moreover, policemen, unlike civilians have the full force and weight of the Government behind them. As a result they can and often do draw their weapons whenever they feel a threat or report of a threat warrants it. Whereas a civilian would go to jail for doing the same.
The simple truth is that policemen do a job that requires unique training and skills that too often have little application for non-law enforcement personnel. Policemen are trained to operate under completely different set of rules than the ones a civilian must live by.
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| How many civilians get one of these? |
Unlike law enforcement officers a civilian has only his or her handgun, wits
and training to depend upon.
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| No tanks, no back-up! |
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| For civilians it's "one on one" |
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| Just your gun, your wits and training |
Finally Frontier does not use fly-by-night sub-contractors who chase the big dollars and bounce around from one training academy. At Frontier our instructors of still understand and how Integrity and Honor. Unlike a few "instructors" being touted by other range operators, Frontier's instructors keep the commitments and promises they make.
Train Where Integrity and Honor Still Have Meaning.
Train for the Real World at….
Frontier
Firearms Training Academy
Copyright 2011 by Frontier Firearms, LLC
Copyright 2011 by Frontier Firearms, LLC
