[frostfire]

Thanks for the input, jbour13. We work with 1 station, standard system. Good point about people not being serious. It happened, but so far I didn't see it hampering the training at all.

You cover what perhaps is the future of the program. Currently I have to maintain these folks (okay...cadets) interested in marksmanship against other interest such as gaming, girls, dates, intramurals etc., so stress training might not help except for the very dedicated ones. It was made clear to me that I cannot kick anyone out for poor performance. I love this work and don't want to be kicked out myself.

Yes, so far the canting, trigger pressure, NPOA, and follow through trackings are the most useful feature as they pointed out flinching, bucking, etc. readily and the trainees can see their errors themselves. We also use M16 firing blanks to get over with that initial uneasy feelings. Heck, when there're M1A to my right and left at matches, I still got jittery myself.

A case of training problem from last course. A female shooter has short neck and arms. She had problems with maintaining cheek weld and placement/reach of left arm on the A2 heat guard. Have you encountered a similar problem and have any suggestions for her to improve?


Gene Econ Sir,

still working on it. I'm almost 100% confident of just the marksmanship feature. I've run all the courses myself, all in unsupported position with results above experts. Aiming tiny dot had trained me well to have excellent holds when it comes to silhouette. Many credits go to you and Rick.

I also doubt the course will progress that far into the tactical scenarios, not to mention at that point I'm not qualified yet to instruct and can only serve as the system grease monkey as I also do the maintenance. When you say tactical, do you mean the collective (customizable) or the shoot/don't shoot scenarios?

Once we made it clear that the .22 mags are to be untouched after loading, the failure to feed dissappeared. Also had a lot of failure to fire, but the old coach was also a machinist and he worked the firing pin and other parts somehow that they functioned without hiccups after that.