Gander Mountain Academy

[SavageSmoker]

I live close to Gander in Lakevile and was looking for thoughts on the various classes they offer. I have used the live-fire range before and like it. Hoe is the quality and content of the various classes they offer? Worth the money?
Thx...Brian

[GunClasses.Net]

I haven't tried their classes, but I've heard that their instructors are former or current LEO.

What a nice facility that is there... The virtual ranges are great. The simulated guns are okay, but still not quite like the real thing.

[Erik_Pakieser]

I've never used that range, but I have shot on "virtual ranges" in other facilities.

They are fun and interesting, but I feel that if you are serious about training, you should be shooting on a live fire range and doing person v. person force-on-force training.

Video ranges typically put the shooter on "rails" where they cannot get behind cover, can't move out of the line of fire, etc. This "stand and deliver" shooting style has been proven over and over to get people killed in gunfights.

All that said, from the standpoint of building muscle memory for shooting and decision making skills, virtual ranges can be useful. I just don't feel they are the only training a person should get.

[jshuberg]

I've shot there a couple times. The last time I walked out on a VRange session when one of the idiots there told me I was shooting too fast, and that "if I wanted to ruin a gun by shooting it too fast, I need to use my own". That and a comment that they don't allow full-auto because it's a "family establishment" and that it would "ruin their backstop". Their live fire range is only 7 yards, WTF!!??!!

It's a nice facility, but it strikes me that they are extremely oriented to the novice shooter, and their comments and attitudes have definitely turned me off. There are quite a few places and organizations that offer excellent training around town. I'd stay away from GM.

[EAJuggalo]

If you're in Savage I believe DonL still works and does classes at Burnsville Pistol Range on 42 and Ewing. I would highly recommend any classes he offers.

[T.P.F.K.A.M]

I haven't tried their classes, but I've heard that their instructors are former or current LEO.

What a nice facility that is there... The virtual ranges are great. The simulated guns are okay, but still not quite like the real thing.

Their instructors are former and current *****

[T.P.F.K.A.M]

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[GunClasses.Net]

If you're in Savage I believe DonL still works and does classes at Burnsville Pistol Range on 42 and Ewing. I would highly recommend any classes he offers.

Don is excellent.