NRA to Offer Precision Long Range Shooting School
The NRA will debut a new long range training program this summer at the Peacemaker National Training Center in West Virginia. Registration is now open for the National Rifle Association’s Precision Long Range School. Three summer sessions will be offered: July 2-3, August 13-14, and September 3-4, 2016. Price is a painful $1900.00 per two-day session. That does include guns, ammo and instruction, but NOT lodging. (Think about that — for $1900.00 you can buy a pretty nice rifle and practice on your own. Likewise that $1900.00 will buy a very high-quality scope.)
The NRA Precision Long Range School is designed to teach students how to hit very small targets out to (and beyond) 1,100 yards, and how to make hits on the first shot. Sessions will be lead by some of the nation’s best long range instructors and students will be provided with top-of-the-line guns, ammo, optics, and all necessary gear.
This unique school covers a spectrum of long range shooting disciplines. Students will learn long-range competition “best practices”, tactical long-range methods, and long-range hunting techniques. This school will be taught in MILS. Specific techniques covered will include: Dialing, Holding Off, Target Transition, Advanced Long Range Marksmanship, Suppressor Usage, and Long Range Speed Shooting.
The school will also cover Advanced External Ballistics, Advanced Wind Reading, and Applied Ballistics Software Usage. For these subjects, seminar-style instruction will be combined with range practice to put learned skills into practice at long range.
The NRA Precision Long Range School will provide top-quality hardware to participants: Surgeon rifles built on Modular chassis systems, chambered for the .260 Remington cartridge. These rifles will be fitted with Nightforce ATACR MIL-R optics and AWC Silencers suppressors. The Top-of-the line Swarovski spotting scopes and range-finding binoculars will be employed, along with Kestrel wind meters with Applied Ballistics software. Nexus-brand .260 Rem ammo completes the package available to Long Range School attendees.
To register, or obtain more information about the NRA Precision Long Range School, visit the Long Range School Webpage or call (844) 672-6883.
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Tags: Long Range School, NRA, Peacemaker, Tactical Shooting
The cost is high, but I can see the appeal of providing everything the student needs. Its only a two day class, so I’d want all the time used to teach the subject matter of the class. If every student brought along their own gear, there’d be an inevitable equipment failure, inadequate equipment, that one scope with MOA knobs when everyone else has MIL, etc. It can take quite some time to sort all that out.
My first question is who are the instructors? If they are not national championship level shooters/coaches, I would not spend that kind of coin!
No thanks I’ll rather be taught by Todd Hodnett. A lot less$$$
I guess I’ve wasted a lifetime learning these skills should of just spent 1900.00 and 2 days! Good Luck!
Yes indeed it is expensive. If the class stresses first shot hits at unranged distances on small targets, then I’d say most people (of the small number) that need that skill are already taught it in their respective line of service, or can read up. Plainly said, that is basically the first half of sniping, – apart from concealment. The cold bore long range first shot hit (on small targets) is certainly different and harder than just reading wind and following a spotter, but it’s also a shot very rarely needed or taken. Practical shooters use that skill for a couple of shots in each match but 1,900 buys a lot of self-teaching.
Is this course still being given?