Front Sight $250 lifetime handgun course memberships

[tuts40]

NOTICE... The following offer is withdrawn in that i also recieved the reduced membership offer via snail mail and in it they stated clearly "no electronic advertisement". Anyway, I'm not sure buying memberships and then selling them for same price is a problem but the advertising here might be as far as FS is concerned... I'll leave the post here for the kids to balk at tho:

I have a lifetime membership at Front Sight (Handgun only), free of charge 2 or 4 day handgun and the 2-day "skill builder" as well.

The 4-day Defensive Handgun course is better than excellent in taking a novice from barely having shot a handgun to putting a double tap on a thoracic target from concealed in LESS than 1.5 seconds. I've been there and so have my twin boys and my "non-tactical" - never shot a gun before wife, all who have been able to put the two shots safely onto target from concealed in 1.5 seconds or less at the end of the course. Anyway, trigger control, malfuction clearance, live fire shoot-house (home invasion defense training), drawing, etc, all with a huge emphasis on safety are all a major part of the training. Oh, the lectures on legal ramifications, shoot-no shoot (audience participation), etc are pretty good to. Why am I saying all that? I dunno, it's Friday and I'm offa work, it's paycheck Friday and good God almighty, let's get drunk and be somebody! ...oops, sorry, I'm listening to Toby Kieth.

Anyway, I got an email that offers as many of the lifetime memberships a person has for $250 stink'n bucks each. No kidding. Here's a link: Front Sight Firearms Training Institute So, if I wanted to buy two more or ten more I can do so for $250 each, and can give them to anyone I please...

Soooooo, I'm trying to figure out how I can pass this offer on to anyone here. I'd LOVE to help someone get a handgun training membership for pennies on the dollar (I paid $1500 about six years ago) but I'm wondering how to go about it.

Any ideas?

BTW, the advertising and the grand "whoopla" of the site should not diminish in your mind the level of training offered there. Just an observation.

Post Script: No, I'm NOT selling these. I'm not affiliated or associated with FS other than having a membership I purchased six years ago. No, again, I'm not selling these but was looking to share some by simply purchasing these myself and then passing them on for the SAME price I'd pay or anyone with a membership would pay, 250 bucks. Thats all, just trying to be nice... No profit, no points, no perks, no pay, no "atta-boy's", no monetary/product/service gains, no nothing but just trying to help someone who may have been looking at getting a membership but shy'd away due to the cost.

 

[50SR9]

Be my Santa??!!!

 

[Glock Fan]

Having toured the place and after speaking to several instructors, all I can say is that place scares me. Way too "militant" for my taste. Seems like a huge pyramid scheme that's bound to crumble sooner or later.

 

[tuts40]

Having toured the place and after speaking to several instructors, all I can say is that place scares me. Way too "militant" for my taste. Seems like a huge pyramid scheme that's bound to crumble sooner or later.

Militant? ...Not according to my very less than militant/tactical wife. There were girls attending in thier teens. It was fun, even if fast paced with full days. No, we didn't sit around drinking beers and shoot'n the sheet, but it was still injoyable for the many different types of folks (young, old, male, female, experienced shooters, novices, LEO's, border patrol agents, grandmas and whoever else) that have been there each time I took a class.

Pyramid scheme? What? I'm not selling anything! If you or anyone thinks I'm connected to FS (other than a membership) in any way you or they are mistaken. ...Just thought I'd pass on an opportunity for an inexpensive membership. I am not part of FS at all, nor am I selling anything, as I mentioned.

...Now that I think about it tho I can understand how you'd think "pyramid" IF I was selling anything. I'm not.

So, never mind I guess. I was just thinking it's be a cool thing to do to for some folks, but perhaps it was a bad idea.

On another note though, I'm thinking about getting a membership for my two daughters, one of whom was just hired by the city police, going to academy this spring! Hell, it'd be only 250 each and they can take as many classes as they'd want.

Oh, taking a tour and having a conversation with an instructor and then judging the courses might be akin to smelling a broth and chatting with the chef during the early stages of soup preparation and then judging the soup itself that you never ate. I don't mean that in a confrontational way, just pointing out the obvious.

 

[Tucker's Mom]

It's not a bad idea to be kind-hearted. I wish I live closer to FS. I would surely take up the offer and pay my due and my own family, but we are not. Someone may take you up on that. Do not be disheartened too early...

 

[cjs]

Having toured the place and after speaking to several instructors, all I can say is that place scares me. Way too "militant" for my taste. Seems like a huge pyramid scheme that's bound to crumble sooner or later.

Hah...Militant? Anything but (except maybe if you work there). It DOES seem like a scheme much of the time, but I purchased a Diamond+Alaska during one of the previous offers, and at these prices, if you go once, you're pretty much getting your money's worth. If you can get there twice, you're doing pretty well. I suspect a lot of the memberships rarely get used, so it's no great loss to them if people buy them inexpensively.

As for ways to hook people up, one of their big rules is forbidding advertising electronically, threatening to cancel the member, as well as any memberships they sell, in such a way. I've never heard of it actually being enforced, but many boards get letters requesting the removal of any such threads. They claim they want people to sell them to friends and family they know, but I know of a lot of memberships that slip through.

So, in my opinion, look at their 2012 schedule, and if you can fit a class in, grab a cheap membership and head on out. I'm already checking my vacation schedule for next year to see when I might be able to sneak out for a 2 or 4 day class.

 

[tuts40]

Yup, I hear ya cjs. I wish I coulda afforded a diamond. Anyway, I've got a "blue certificate" so I can take anyone I want free of charge if it is their first visit. So with my membership and the certificate, I'm thinking about taking my daughter. If she likes it as much as the others in my family has, maybe a membership would be a cool thing to get her for her birthday.

I did not realize they frown on passing the word to others than family, but like you said, they'd still be doing well if only a small percentage of the memberships were obtained so inexpensively,... Well, I'll leave the OP up as is for awhile, or not, I dunno. Getting harder and harder lately to be nice, people wonder what you are up to it seems!

Merry Christmas!

 

[tuts40]

It's not a bad idea to be kind-hearted. I wish I live closer to FS. I would surely take up the offer and pay my due and my own family, but we are not. Someone may take you up on that. Do not be disheartened too early...

Yeah, we used to make a vacation out of it actually, staying in Pahrump. My wife's daughter lives in CA, not far from there so it was easy to "justify"...

 

[Glock Fan]

Militant? ...Not according to my very less than militant/tactical wife.

Oh, taking a tour and having a conversation with an instructor and then judging the courses might be akin to smelling a broth and chatting with the chef during the early stages of soup preparation and then judging the soup itself that you never ate. I don't mean that in a confrontational way, just pointing out the obvious.

Having trained and "fixed" many students that have gone through Front Sight validates my observations of their instructors. It will only be a matter of time before a product of the facility ends up in serious hot water due to some very bad information they obtained there.

Personally, I'm staying far away from the facility. A friend recently presented me with a "Diamond" certificate. He said that he paid $1,000s' of dollars for the course when he took it, but substantially less for the certificate he gave me. I have yet to use it.

There are many other training facilities out there. Out of respect for Luke and this board, I won't list them due to Front Sight being a site sponsor, however I welcome folks to do some research before dropping serious cash on ANY training facility.

 

[phrogmedic]

wish I lived closer to FS. what I've read and heard about them (FS) they provide "great tools" (skills/info) to their students. Question: how many tools do you have in your toolbox in your garage ?
Tots: if you can get your daughter through before she goes to the Academy that would be cool and give her some great tools

 

[phrogmedic]

Tuts40, sorry for the typo. big fingers, small phone big grin

 

[doubled]

Front sight memberships

I may be interested in a membership as it looks as if all are sold out, but somehow I think from time to time the "sold out" banner is removed and they are selling again?Anyone have experience here where it looks as if it will never be available again, generates interest, then available again?

 

[Shootinjh]

Thanks for the offer! As I understand it this is the last, for real, seriously, the very last, really, last, last, last offering of this once in a lifetime opportunity! lol

I have heard many good things about FS, some of my students have attended it as have some of my instructors. Like Home Depot, it is good at providing an above average product to large volumes. It is not at the level of a top 10 instructor giving you personal instruction, but very much worth the money. Trusted testimony was good enough that I bought a membership a couple years ago. I was lucky to get it because it was the last, last, absolutely last final chance to buy one for a family member for $250. ;-)

Whatever you do though, DO NOT give them your real email address or important phone number. They are very annoying in their marketing. Think used car salesman becomes a shooting instructor & starts a 3am infomercial after drinking 3 cups of coffee, a Jolt & a Red Bull.

I look forward to attending this year or next!
Shepard Humphries

 

[tuts40]

Thanks Shootinjh. I've withdrawn the offer to pass on memberships at cost here as i did find that FS strongly warns against electronic advertising. ...Maybe too many cheap memberships would be given out I suppose.

 

[Spartan24]

Having trained and "fixed" many students that have gone through Front Sight validates my observations of their instructors. It will only be a matter of time before a product of the facility ends up in serious hot water due to some very bad information they obtained there.

Just curious, but what things have you had to fix that would get someone in hot water? You have a pretty vague statement and I want to know specifically of what problems saw.

 

[Bttbbob]

Just go on EBAY and buy one. Any two day course for 90.00. If that doesn't tell you something, it should. See if Gunsite or Mas Ayoob will put their certificates on ebay.... BWAHHHHAAAAAAAAAA:no: