Austin people (and surrounding areas): Lets get a training group together

[jay524288]

June 6 is a historically significant date.

55 years!

Oh yeah, D-Day was 6/6.

 

[SIG_Fiend]

Yep, it sure is. I figured that would be kind of fitting. Have some dinner, celebrate those that paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country, etc. Though if others have different plans to observe this historical day, that's fine too and we could go with a different day instead if necessary.

 

[Hoji]

June 6 is a historically significant date.

55 years!

Is it your birthday? 6/6/1954? Because if so you probably should not give out that kind of personal info on da intrawebz

 

[sig556]

Either or works for me.

 

[Big country]

As long as it is no the 27th of june or the week after I'm good.

 

[Ranger60]

I will be in San Antonio for the gun show on the 30th, but should be back in time for the dinner.

 

[M. Sage]

Is it your birthday? 6/6/1954? Because if so you probably should not give out that kind of personal info on da intrawebz

Just bad math.

65 years. My mistake.

I'm wayyyy younger than 50.

 

[texas_teacher]

There are a few things we should really work on first. First off, we need to work on a place to meet. If someone has a decent place to meet, maybe a decent amount of property, etc and if they'd be willing to allow us to meet that would be very helpful. Like I said, we could even do things as simple as watch some training vids, go through the motions with airsoft guns, etc if none of us have enough property to actually live fire. What I'm envisioning is it would be nice if we could find a place we could meet regularly, and regularly hold meetings every other week or once a month or something and watch a new training vid every time or do other stuff as well. Basically something we can do a bit more regularly than the occasional range meet every 3-6 months. Lets start brainstorming people and see what we can come up with. There is always the option that, if no one is able to host us at their place, we could possibly find some business with a meeting room that has media capabilities (projector, tv, etc) and rent it out until we can find something else. Anyone have any ideas? It sounds like most of us here are probably in the same boat, meaning not very experienced, though that's not a problem. What I would like to ultimately turn this into is a large enough group that maybe we could host some instructors for some training classes in or near the Austin area eventually.

God your ideas sound badass Sig... I'd probably be down if we could find someplace to do multiple target run throughs.

 

[usmcpmi]

SIG, Was it on purpose or did it just happen to end up as...6-6-6..??? OH NO!!!! Not the Devil! Too funnny! MG

 

[SIG_Fiend]

SIG, Was it on purpose or did it just happen to end up as...6-6-6..??? OH NO!!!! Not the Devil! Too funnny! MG

Destroyers of the universe UNITE! lol j/k Nope, never realized that. I guess we'll earn more points for having it at that time. lol

 

[Wolfwood]

sounds like a blast. (pun intended as always).
airsoft can actually be very helpful for training excersises. but if it is goiong to be outdoors, we will need better quality weapons. the 6mm plasitc bbs drift dramatically in the slightest breeze. but they are great for indoor tactical situations especially hostage situations and room takedowns.
im totally in.
(tom clancy fan)

 

[texas_teacher]

sounds like a blast. (pun intended as always).
airsoft can actually be very helpful for training excersises. but if it is goiong to be outdoors, we will need better quality weapons. the 6mm plasitc bbs drift dramatically in the slightest breeze. but they are great for indoor tactical situations especially hostage situations and room takedowns.
im totally in.
(tom clancy fan)

At a couple of places you can find those hard almost ceramic 6mm bbs that fly hard and straight and fast as shit. My dad actually shot me in the neck one time with these with his Colt 45 and drew blood... damn his police tactics and accuracy using them against me and my kid brother

 

[texas_teacher]

Other thing I was thinking is breaking out the tactical shotties and throwing some slugs at deadbolts and multiple targets... Just a thought

 

[Wolfwood]

ooo some frangibles and breacher barrells.
ceramic airsoft? id be scared to use my c02 sig p220

 

[M. Sage]

Other thing I was thinking is breaking out the tactical shotties and throwing some slugs at deadbolts and multiple targets... Just a thought

Slugs are dangerous to breach with as is buckshot. Skeet loads supposedly work alright, though. I know someone who knows how to "DIY" breaching rounds for shotguns, if I can convince him to post on here. I'll probably drag him to the dinner.

 

[kerryp]

So did we ever finalize the date and time? Did I miss it. I know we were talking about June 6? is that the date, at Rudy's, what time?

 

[usmcpmi]

Kerrry, Check back a couple of posts... We settled on 6-6-6.... at Rudy's on 360 south of the bridge over Lake Austin... MG

 

[SIG_Fiend]

Yep, it's June 6th at 6pm at Rudy's. Here's the details:

http://www.texasguntalk.com/forums/...-get-training-group-together-6.html#post61162

We'll grab some dinner of course, hang out awhile. Everyone can get acquainted, and maybe we can also discuss some details further about getting this thing organized. My ultimate goal was to basically turn this into sort of a regular group thing where we meet regularly maybe once a month or a few times a month and just do stuff related to training. Even if it's simple, inexpensive stuff like airsoft force on force drills or simply watching training vids, I figure it would be nice to regularly do that stuff with a group of people. Of course nothing beats hands on training, but at the least doing some of these simple things we could still get the "book smarts" side of things out of the way, build a little muscle memory going through the motions, etc so that time spent in an actual professional training course will be that much more effective.

 

[rdero]

Is the group for anyone to participate? I'm getting ready to move to New Braunfels and this looks pretty interesting. Or is New Braunfels too far away?

 

[kerryp]

Distance is only a factor if you make it one....anyone is welcome.