Training on the east coast

[JamisJockey]

Where would be some good places for defensive pistol courses here on the east coast?

 

[wcwhitey]

Blackwater, Moyock, NC, about 30 miles south of Virginia Beach on RT 168 on the way to the Outer Banks. They offer a mind boggling list of courses, give them a look up.

 

[BullfrogKen]

There are way too many to list on the "East coast".

Do you have a smaller region in mind? Narrow the scope a little more.

 

[JamisJockey]

I'm in NoVA. I've been browsing the blackwater list and then thier website went Tango-Uniform....I did get to see the prices and classes, but not the schedule.

 

[BullfrogKen]

Insights Training offers classes in NoVA. I've seen Steve Silverman of Firearms Research and Instruction (FRI) make trips there from time to time. John Farnam will make an occasional trip to NoVA.

Quantico hosts a large number of itinerant trainers throughout the year. I don't recall off the top of my head the name of the club at Quantico that hosts them, but I know many of the nationally recognized trainers have offered classes there.


I'd start looking there before I went to Blackwater. Many of Blackwater's courses and instruction is geared towards professionals with duties to perform - Peace Officers, government agencies, contractors. Yes . . . before anyone comes along and points out they offer classes to the Armed Citizen . . . Yes, they do. That instruction is also structed along the lines of a military style of delivery.


These ones I mentioned have much more experience training Armed Citizens. If you're looking for training targeted to the government contractor or Law Enforcement, Blackwater is the king of the game in VA. The Armed Citizen has better options.

 

[Tim Burke]

Moving a bit further away... Harrisburg, PA is not that far from NoVa. A number of nationally known trainers stop there.
Louis Awerbuck seems to be in Durham, NC every year, but it's usually in late May, so you've missed your opportunity for 2007.

 

[ShackleMeNot]

We (Tactical Response) will be in Virginia in September for two classes.

September 17 - 18
Fighting Pistol
Abingdon, VA

September 19 - 20
Fighting Rifle
Abingdon, VA

Further details are available at our website: www.TacticalResponse.com.

 

[Fly320s]

SigArms Academy. Exeter, NH.

www.sigarms.com/EducationTraining

 

[Fred Fuller]

JJ,

See http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=248843 for the early version of the training schedule at Quantico, note there may be additions/changes.

lpl/nc

 

[FRIsteve]

Charlottesville, VA

We'll be back in Charlottesville in August. Rivanna Rifle and Pistol Club (www.rrpc.org). Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

 

[Chris Rhines]

Two I can recommend are the F.I.R.E. Institute in Pittsburg, PA and Pat Goodale's Practical Firearms Training in Alderson, WV.

- Chris