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I love you Andy.............sounds like "Deliverance"............to me, certifications mean that you sat through a class and passed a test. To be useful, it needs to be backed up by extensive experiance and talent. My wife got her engineering degree in 1975, worked for 5 years as an understudy before getting fully "certified" to design buildings and even with that didn't work unsupervised for another 10 years. She constantly is in the process of teaching young "certified" engineers that have little or no real experiance. I have many "certifications" some well earned or deserved and some not. The term is just too subjective to mean much.Let me preface this with :
I mean no offense with my following comment.
Going into a "remote" area with strangers who are armed....
Just how that reads makes me a bit wary.
It would take a lot of trust to get me to take a firearms class in a remote location with strangers.
I understand how difficult it is to "start up" any business , let alone a firearms training business.
It must be extremely difficult when the firearms training business , does not have their own range...
I do wish you the best in your venture and I hope that you find a range of your own soon.
Andy
I love you Andy.............sounds like "Deliverance"............
I'm a marine corps veteran. I was a field artillery cannoneer. Served 4 years.Do you have any other experience or background?
I.e. Ranger, Seal, other military specialty service?
If not then (and I am wrong at times so this is an assumption) you may have a bit of a hard time drumming up business when there are some exceptional instructors in the area with a lot of background.
I would focus on what makes you stand out from the rest and why people should take your training.
Also, remote public land shooting areas are not a guarantee. What happens when another group shows up early and takes your designated spot?
Just my 2¢ for what it's worth.
Looking to do this full time.Is this a side-gig or are you wanting to do it full-time? Are you against signing on at an established facility to gain some experience?
If you're jumping into the world of small business, even as an independent contractor, there's going to be some legwork involved and contacts to be made.
Best of luck to you, stay with it.
One of my Combat Rescue Pilots owns and runs a company that does real special ops training for contractors and government operators in Northern Utah. He owns 10,000 acres and has access to the entire restricted peninsula south of Promatory Point owned by ATK (previously Morton Thiokol) and the military range at Lakeside UT. he has aircraft, a fleet of military type vehicles and every type of modern night vision, drone and even access to military satellite information. He retired as a LT Col after 23 years as a Combat Rescue pilot and was called back for another 5 when the gulf war went down. His training classes are highly classified and coveted by the alphabet organizations. I doubt that he has a NRA "certification"............but he does have a brother that is a federal judge and another that is a congressman.
I haven't talked to him for years but from what I read, the program isn't open to the public. I knew all the family well in the old days, used to hunt on there property and trucked hay for them from there ranches while we were still mostly in the military.Hook a brother up
Do you have any other experience or background?
I'm a marine corps veteran. I was a field artillery cannoneer. Served 4 years.