This is my second class with Bill Jeans. Bill is a former marine and LEO with over thirty years of experience. Bill worked as a range master for Gun Site for over a decade and works as an adjunct instructor at Thunder Ranch.

Day One.

The day started with the usual administrative lawyer stuff and safety briefing. Bill is extremely organized and has name tags, a detailed course manual, and T shirts for everyone. This years T shirts memorialize the 9/11 terrorist attack. Seventeen students showed up for some running and gunning. Many of those in attendance work full time in law enforcement and one student is with the Navy.

The equipment make up of the class was one Robinson Arms M96 carbine, one Steyr AUG, and the rest are AR15/M16 platforms in various configurations.

H&K is manufacturing some very nice mags for the AR/M16 BTW. They are an all steel design and about an inch longer than the standard thirty rounders. This allows the mags to be run topped off and appear to be more durable and reliable than their aluminum counter parts. The majority of the class ran optics.

Bill advocates a stance that points both feet directly at the target. Since the theme of the class is CQB this places the shooter in a more stable position to fight from should they need to go hands on.

We started off the firing drills at yards with standard responses of two or three rounds to the COM with called FTS drills. The majority of the drills involved lateral, reward, and moving to the rear diagonal movement. Most of the days drills were shot under ten yards with many at contact distance.

Malfunction clearances were non diagnostic. Tap tug/rack flip, followed by a type three if the initial IAD failed to fix it.

We wrapped up the first day with a drill called the 30-30. 30 rounds in 30 seconds. 5 from standing, kneeling, squatting, sitting, prone, to the COM, and then a final five from prone to the COC.

Day Two.

When you train with Bill he starts off slowly on the first day, but be careful what you wish for. Day two ramped up significantly. We started off day two with transitions to pistol and then shot several versions of a modified El Presidente. The shooters would engage each of three target with two rounds each from the carbine and then repeat the drill with the pistol. We were encouraged not to fire pairs and to run the drills differently each time.

From there we moved on to shooting on the move both in the stealth (step and trail) and assault mode moving in and back. The morning was rounded out with position shooting on T shirt clad targets out to 75 yards.

After lunch we broke into two groups. One with Bill and one with Scotty. One group worked various drills on the high speed mover from 15 - 50 yards while the other group shot several carbine bounces on 200 yard steel.

The final evolution was again broke into two groups with one group working close contact and weapons retention with Bill and the other running an obstacle course with Scotty. The obstacle course consisted of running from firing point to firing point and engaging steel target from 200 - 380 yards. One of the firing points was on top of a conex container and we had to negotiate a ladder while maintaining strict muzzle discipline. The final two rounds were fired off the support side should through a barricade on 200 yard steel.

We left the range hot, sweaty, and speaking for my self. exhausted.

This was an outstanding class!

**Lets hear from some of the other attendees. Please feel free to chime in.**