Rockwell Tactical Group

[Righter13]

Anyone had any experience with Rockwell Tactical?

They're Semi-Local to me and seem to have a descent background from what I've read.

Planning to take theyre Carbine course at the end of March. http://www.shop.rockwelltactical.com/Carbine-103-March-30-31-2017-Gap-PA-20170330-c103.htm

Anyone want to make a road trip? I'll cover lodging.

 

[literacola06]

I've never trained with Rockwell per se, but I'll be taking my 4th class with Garry Marr in May, who is an instructor there. If the other guys are half the instructor that Garry is, you'll be in great hands.


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[Righter13]

I've never trained with Rockwell per se, but I'll be taking my 4th class with Garry Marr in May, who is an instructor there. If the other guys are half the instructor that Garry is, you'll be in great hands.


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Thanks for the input. I'm looking forward to it.

 

[literacola06]

No problem! Post an AAR (after action report) after the class!


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[Righter13]

Day 1 complete of 301.

Day 1 is the most basic of basic class. Designed for someone who has bought a rifle and done nothing more than take it out of the box.

Covered basic safety, sight picture, zeroing and then in the afternoon we did a variety of drills.

Lessons learned for myself:
Run my gun wet. For this class I'm running a 12.5 Noveske SBR with DeadAir Sandman S. After about 250-300 rounds it gets dirty and doesn't like to be dry. It wouldn't go in to battery from bolt lock. Put some lube on it and it was running just fine.

Lessons learned by others: bring back up guns, loctite optics, bring spare batteries for optics, have back up sights (iron sights)

Day 2 is tomorrow with 2 inches of rain expected in 50ish degree temps. Should be a good test of equipment.

 

[dial1911]

Day 1 complete of 301.

Day 1 is the most basic of basic class. Designed for someone who has bought a rifle and done nothing more than take it out of the box.

Covered basic safety, sight picture, zeroing and then in the afternoon we did a variety of drills.

Lessons learned for myself:
Run my gun wet. For this class I'm running a 12.5 Noveske SBR with DeadAir Sandman S. After about 250-300 rounds it gets dirty and doesn't like to be dry. It wouldn't go in to battery from bolt lock. Put some lube on it and it was running just fine.

Lessons learned by others: bring back up guns, loctite optics, bring spare batteries for optics, have back up sights (iron sights)

Day 2 is tomorrow with 2 inches of rain expected in 50ish degree temps. Should be a good test of equipment.

Looking forward to the report- I recently had my own favorite carbine fail to go into battery at a bowling pin shoot. Of course, I hadn't cleaned it (on purpose) for at least 400 rounds. Found the failure point- it wouldn't strip a round off the mag and go into battery.

 

[Righter13]

Looking forward to the report- I recently had my own favorite carbine fail to go into battery at a bowling pin shoot. Of course, I hadn't cleaned it (on purpose) for at least 400 rounds. Found the failure point- it wouldn't strip a round off the mag and go into battery.

That was my syptom too. A few pumps of the FA and all was good.

 

[Righter13]

Day 2:

Similar to day 1 but at a faster pace. Weather got to 55 at a high I think. Definitely got the better part of 2 inches of rain. Not once did it stop. It lightened up a bit but never stopped.

No high speed shooting from barrier type stuff. Just good basic fundamentals type stuff.

Lessons learned:

Ensure your rain jacket has a hood. I grabbed the wrong jacket when packing.

A can of compressed air might not be a bad idea for blowing clean the lense on optics once mud gets on it.

Once again, lube that BCG generously. Especially if running suppressed.