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by baldeagle
Thu Aug 12, 2010 9:33 pm
Forum: Rifles & Shotguns
Topic: Anyone been to the Frontsight training
Replies: 57
Views: 10711

Re: Anyone been to the Frontsight training

Charles L. Cotton wrote:You didn't hit a nerve. No discussion of FS is complete unless it covers its business practices. I don't want TexasCHLforum members going to FS based upon something they read here without knowing about those practices ahead of time.

Chas.
You have no worries here, Charles. I can't afford a $500 dollar training course here in Dallas, much less the high dollar stuff that FS is selling.
by baldeagle
Tue Aug 10, 2010 7:13 pm
Forum: Rifles & Shotguns
Topic: Anyone been to the Frontsight training
Replies: 57
Views: 10711

Re: Anyone been to the Frontsight training

HeeHaw wrote:The thing that kills me the most about all these haters is why are you trying so hard to tear apart a gun organization whose purpose is to train and educated people about firearms.
I thought your response was very useful and helpful -- up until you wrote this.

I know very little about FS. I've seen their ads, and I've discussed with my wife whether she thought the course was worth the expense. (She didn't, because for me it would include the travel expenses in addition to the cost of the course.) I was completely unaware of the accidental shootings and the class action lawsuit. Frankly, those don't bother me much. Lots of businesses get sued, but that doesn't make me stop doing business with them if I think what they are selling has sufficient value to justify me paying them the money they are asking. The shootings also don't bother me. How many times have we read on this forum about a police officer who shot himself while practicing? Some people are very careful with firearms. Other people are not. It's not possible to watch every person in a class every minute.

The over-reaction of the "FS-defenders" to criticism does make me curious, though. Why the need to defend them in such emotional terms? Surely you can understand why some, like Hoi Polloi, might think that multiple accidental deaths and a class action lawsuit are justifiable reasons for being skeptical about the program?

It sounds like you have enjoyed the training as well as benefited from it. And I agree with you that the training has value, although perhaps not as much as some of the others who have been named. But I don't know that, because I don't know who any of these people are. I thank you for your comments about FS. I just wish you hadn't written the sentence that I quoted. It comes across as a personal attack on other members of the forum, even if that isn't how you meant it (and I don't think that you did.)
by baldeagle
Mon Aug 09, 2010 12:44 pm
Forum: Rifles & Shotguns
Topic: Anyone been to the Frontsight training
Replies: 57
Views: 10711

Re: Anyone been to the Frontsight training

extremist wrote:As for two-way range? I not sure what you are talking about.
He's referring to a range where the bullets go two ways; from you and towards you. There's nothing like a live fire exercise to get your attention and make you seriously question your commitment to the armed forces. Not to mention teach you how to eat dirt and make yourself real thin and flat. ;-)

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