Well folks its regretfully over. I hosted a class in tunica, ms and it was this past weekend. I basically started this thread to give my experiences and to praise the Suarez instructor Randy Harris. The class was a two day fighting rifle class. Like I said before it took place at a outdoor range in tunica, Mississippi. I honestly didn't know what to expect as far as range officers and what not but it was a great experience. They didn't at all breathe down our necks, brought out water, and even let us stay a little late Saturday and start early Sunday. The weather was absolutely horrible. Saturday it was great as far as temperature but the freaking wind was blowing about 25mph and blowing the target stands and targets to pieces. But we managed with anything from screw boxes, ammo cans, and cases of water to hold down the targets....it was redneck engineering at its finest lol. Saturday started off with the basic safety stuff that everyone needs to know. Up until lunch it was a dry fire class. After lunch we started working on off hand rifle manipulation and it was a awesome learning experience. I will tell you know from experience keep your thumb down on off hand ak manipulation. Saturday night we all met up at Paula Deans for dinner and got to know each other a lot better. Its pretty awesome that you go in to something not knowing people and end up feeling like you've known them for years. I don't think Randy will look at people from arkansas the same though. Sunday we got started an hour early not to mention the time change that already took an hour. It was cloudy with 35-40mph gust that were almost knocking us over much less our targets. We were rushing like crazy trying to beat the big storm front that was supposed to hit between 3-4pm. Well it came about 3 hours early. Even though the weather sucked we stayed and fought it out. This was a great time to test out what works and what don't from chest rigs, arrangements of equipment, optics, guns, all the way down to your hearing protection. I was so happy that I didn't skip on a quality optic on my ak. I can honestly say that aimpoint is worth the money in my book. At the end of the day we had a great class and great instructor. I really appreciated the fact that he tried to do some dry fire practice as well as live fire drills to conserve as as much as possible. I think everyone walked away with way more knowledge than before and a confidence with a rifle we didn't have before. Overall from my view we had a great turn out and I can't wait for the next one.
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