PMCI - June 2019

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TRAINING: LASER AMMO
TRAINING WITH LASER AMMO
Pushed for time or short of cash to buy ammo? Training at home has never been simpler, safer or more costeffective
than with the systems offered by Laser Ammo. Bill gets hands on with the iMTTS and the LaserPETII
elements and comes away very impressed!
Regular firearms training can be a difficult thing
to pull off can’t it? Unless you are lucky enough
to have access to some form of home range
(unlikely unless you’re a millionaire!) or private
land with a safe backstop that you can access
easily then heading to the range regularly can
be a difficult thing. With ammo prices as they
are there’s also the element of cost to factor in,
and if you’re going to train effectively to keep
those hard-earned shooter skills up to snuff, then you’re going to
be laying down a wad of cash.
I do try to get to my local club range at least two or three
times a month, but the pressures of working life combined with
a commitment to family time sometimes means that this goes
by the wayside. Also as I live in the UK the chance to train with
anything other than a .22LR semi-auto carbine is extremely rare,
and although my club has regular visits to local military ranges
for larger calibre shoots, these opportunities are even more rare,
and largely limited to static prone bolt-action or “straight pull”
disciplines.
Now in my mind, any shooting practice is a good thing, but
the realities are that I am never able to do as much as I would
like, and the chance to run proper tactical drills with carbine and
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