{"id":56,"date":"2008-09-16T20:56:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T20:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/consumermaven.wordpress.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2020-01-04T19:02:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T00:02:04","slug":"frontsight-nevada-firearms-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/2008\/09\/frontsight-nevada-firearms-training\/","title":{"rendered":"FrontSight Nevada Firearms Training"},"content":{"rendered":"

Outside of the military, I have taken commercial firearms training courses at both the SIGARMS Academy in New Hampshire (now called the SIG SAUER Academy<\/a>) and at FrontSight<\/a> in Nevada.<\/p>\n

My experience at SIG consisted of a 3-day Concealed Carry Pistol course.\u00a0 They have a great indoor range where they shoot only lead-free frangible ammo, which means you can get up close with the reactive metal targets.<\/p>\n

At FrontSight you generally have to contend with outdoor courses where you are exposed to all of the rigors of weather in the Nevada desert.\u00a0 In return you get access to some very long ranges and simulators.\u00a0 My first experience at FrontSight began with a promotional half-day submachine gun course.\u00a0 Subsequently I have done one-day assault rifle and shotgun courses, as well as a two-day practical rifle course.\u00a0 In every case I drove up each day from Las Vegas.\u00a0 My best experience was with the one-day courses, which you can custom schedule almost anytime one of the longer courses isn’t in session: My wife and I had an instructor and a range to ourselves, and all ammunition was provided.\u00a0 List prices for Front Sight can seem very high, but the institute’s director, Ignatius Piazza, is constantly running promotions so I would be surprised if anyone pays full tuition.\u00a0 You can usually find discounted course “certificates” that cover tuition on Ebay.<\/p>\n

The single most important variable in your experience at either institute will be your instructor.\u00a0 On the whole I have been quite satisfied, though not every instructor is equally engaging or capable of adapting the content and pace of instruction to the students.\u00a0 Both institutions keep a decent instructor\/student ratio, so incompetent students tend not to bog things down.\u00a0 One other thing you have to deal with at Front Sight is Ignatius Piazza’s cult of personality: Classroom time will include details of his personal philosophies as well as extended pitches for you to buy Front Sight membership and more courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Outside of the military, I have taken commercial firearms training courses at both the SIGARMS Academy in New Hampshire (now called the SIG SAUER Academy) and at FrontSight in Nevada. My experience at SIG consisted of a 3-day Concealed Carry Pistol course.\u00a0 They have a great indoor range where they shoot only lead-free frangible ammo, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[20,22,40,42],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arms","tag-gun-courses","tag-gun-training","tag-shooting-courses","tag-sig-sauer-academy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po3d1-U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}