Lots of good recommendations in this thread. The only ones I can recommend from personal experience are Costa and Baer Solutions.
Costa’s classes are all three days. This is why I’ve learned someone’s basic course may be someone else’s advanced. It really depends what topics they’re covering and how in depth they go with things. Costa’s classes are definitely not competition-oriented in any way. He’s got rifle, pistol, long range rifle, VCQB, and a couple others I’m forgetting. I have taken his Pistol 1, Pistol 2, and Carbine 1.
Baer Solutions’ classes are one day each. So Pistol 1 and Pistol 2 are each a day. Same with his rifle courses. He’s an excellent instructor. This might be the way to go if you’re just looking for a quick, one day intro rifle course.
One I can recommend NOT taking a course from is Rob Pincus. My god was that a waste of time and money. The thing that bothered me the most about the class was he actually made one of the students feel completely stupid in front of everyone and he meant to do it. It was an older gentlemen who had a serious question that a lot of people would know the answer to. But who cares? That’s the purpose of paying money to go to a class. Rob embarrassed him and was a complete and unprofessional ass. Looking back, I should have left then and there, but I was too chicken shit to do so.
He also hardly demo’d anything he was teaching and he has some whack concepts about this “flinch response” thing that he’s developed and chosen as his hill to die on. I don’t know where it comes from and honestly don’t know if there’s any legitimacy to it, but he’s damn sure the only instructor I’ve ever seen teach it. If you know what I’m talking about, you know and I’m not going to go too in depth here because it’d be to much typing, but suffice it to say at the beginning of every single drill you’ll be physically going into “flinch mode” before you draw and fire. Ya know what? Don’t worry about these last couple paragraphs. Just don’t take his classes.
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