2009 is almost here and we’ve been getting our schedule ready for a great training season. We really enjoy the ability to tailor our courses to provide the best possible instruction for our guests. Our Neighbor Range Complex is designed to a modular training environment to accommodate the many calibers and rifle platforms that we offer instruction on, to create a setting that will really instill a good base in the cartridges and platforms discussed. We have broadened our course selection to offer more Sniper Sustainment Courses for our tactical operators and additional recreational shooting courses that cover a broad spectrum of readily available cartridges and rifle platforms. We are very excited for the new lineup and training location – The NRA Whittington Center – and we hope to see you there, enjoying the indistinguishable art of long range shooting.

New Services:

Privatized Training

I have had several requests from groups who are interested in private courses as part of a shooting vacation. Essentially, that’s what we provide with all of our scheduled courses and they are a learning vacation. But it’s different when you have a group of close friends together on that once a year trip, whether it’s hunting, traveling, or whatever. It’s a special time. We can provide you with the knowledge and the memories of a great shooting experience in the beautiful upper-midwest. Our courses can be tailored to your rifle uses and what your groups desired outcome from your time with us. We are very flexible when it comes to shaping a course to fit your needs and we have the facilities at our disposal to make that happen.

Aerial Platform Shooting

New in 2009 is our Aerial Platform Shooting. This is a standard part of our Sniper Sustainment: MOUT course and our privatized military/law enforcement courses, but we are also offering this to our recreational shooters. Whether it’s a PM .30 Caliber Course or private instruction, we have this opportunity at our disposal. Inquire about this when registering for your course.

Night Live Fire

Again, this is a standard part of our PM Operator Courses and Sniper Sustainment, but we are now offering this to our recreational shooters as well. You are welcome to bring your own night vision shooting devices or you can rent one of ours to use. Ask us about this when you register.

Neighbor Range MOUT Site

We will offer realistic, scenario based MOUT Training at the Neighbor Range Complex in 2009. The site will be also be modular to facilitate a number of different urban environments. This portion of the Neighbor Range Complex will greatly enhance our training capabilities for our tactical marksmen with our PM Sniper Sustainment: MOUT course.

Additional Course Locations:

NRA Whittington Center – Raton, NM

We will be offering courses at the NRA Whittington Center in the Spring and Fall months of 2009. I have instructed there previously for many years and I can’t think of a better place to shoot. The people there are great, the facilities are first class, and it’s very beautiful – making each course into a very memorable experience. Our courses will still include ammunition relative to the course, food, and lodging (unless you choose not to stay on site at the cabins).

The 2009 NRA Whittington Center Course Schedule:

PM .50 Caliber: February 24-26, 2009

PM .30 Caliber: March 1-3, 2009

PM: The Distance: March 5-7, 2009

PM Sniper Sustainment: Long Range Engagements: April 6-10, 2009 (only available for active duty military and law enforcement personnel)

Mobile Training Teams

We will also have the ability to instruct at your local range, if you would like to host a course for your local shooting club or group of friends. We travel with all the equipment necessary for each course; you will just be responsible for the facilities and your personal shooting system.

New Courses:

We’ve added a few new courses for both recreational shooters and tactical marksmen that we feel really round out our 2009 training lineup:

PM Precision Carbine

This course is focused towards the accurized gas operated, semi-automatic rifle platforms and the unique capabilities they possess. The course will be offered, as a scheduled course, twice in 2009 but is available on a private group instruction basis to those interested. The Neighbor Range Complex is constructed with this type of rifle platform in mind, with our reactive steel targets, unknown distance range obstacles, and moving target systems. We also have roughly 20 acres of Prairie Dogs on the range that works very well for a “Final Exam” for the course. This three day course will highlight the 5.56mm, 6.8mm, and 7.62mm rifle platforms and the specific application for hunters and target shooting.

PM: The Distance

I had written in a previous issue of the PM Data Book on The Distance and I had touched upon some of the cartridges that we would be discussing during the course. This has been adjusted somewhat to allow a broader range of calibers in the course, as long as they perform past 1000 yards. This is an interesting proposition because there are many wildcats and magnum cartridges that are very well capable and fit with The Distance. We welcome your hand loads in all of our courses, as long as they are safe and we’ll chronograph them prior to shooting to make sure they are loaded within the tolerances. But, regardless, this is a course developed around your long range rifle and we believe that every precision rifle needs to have its ammunition tuned to it to perform with the expect results, so we do not limit what you can use. We do offer to supply your ammunition if you choose not to bring your own and will have everything ready for you when you get there. This course will be offered at the NRA Whittington Center and the Neighbor Range Complex in both scheduled courses and private training.

PM Sniper Sustainment: Long Range Engagements

This course is designed for the tactical marksmen who will be entering into an environment that will warrant the need for long range engagements. This five day course is designed around the long range calibers: .300 WM, .338 Lapua Mag., and .50 BMG. (If a unit wishes to bring an additional caliber, this is fine for the course). The five day course is broken down into

  • Classroom Instruction:
    • Ballistics, Marksmanship
    • Optical Adjustments
    • Maintenance
    • Movement Techniques
    • Night Engagements
    • Sniper OP/FFP Construction
  • Known Distance Engagements
  • Unknown Distance Engagements
  • Stalking Live Fire
    • Day and Night

The PM Sniper Sustainment: Long Range Engagements is also offered at the NRA Whittington Center as both a scheduled course and as private unit training. The parameters at the NRAWC allow for more mountainous terrain to maneuver through and are designed as more of a pre-deployment course for Afghanistan bound Sniper Teams. This is a demanding and fast paced course that is combat focused from the first morning’s PT session to the final Live Fire Night Stalk on the fifth evening. It is very important to us to provide units with this type of training before they go into a combat environment.

PM Sniper Sustainment: MOUT

The course, like the PM Sniper Sustainment: Long Range Engagements, is only available to active duty military and law enforcement personnel. We will only be offering this course on a private unit basis at the Neighbor Range Complex only, to utilize the MOUT Site and the rest of the available training area we have to offer. Military Operations on Urban Terrain is one of the most difficult terrains to operate in, especially against an enemy who has no regard for civilian casualties. It is important to train towards the eventually of combatants mixed with non-combatants, because no matter what – it’s going to happen. We have the facilities and capabilities to put our students through realistic scenarios to help broaden their tactical mindset as a Sniper in the urban environment. This five day course includes:

  • Classroom Instruction:
    • Ballistics, Marksmanship
    • Optical Adjustments
    • Maintenance
    • Movement Techniques
    • Night Engagements
    • Sniper OP/FFP Construction
    • Moving Targets
    • Angle Fire
  • Known Distance Engagements
  • Unknown Distance Engagements
  • MOUT Engagements
    • Day/Night Live Fire Stalks
  • Aerial Platform Shooting
    • Day/Night Live Fire

2009 – The Year of the Rifle

We’re really looking forward to next year. Now, more than ever, there is a need for firearms. With the asinine legislature trying to go through federal and state government, it is very important to educate as part of our 2nd Amendment Fight. Training builds camaraderie and brings people together who share a common interest. I still talk with people who have attended some of my first training courses and I have never met a fellow shooter that I didn’t like. Professional Marksmen Inc. will fight for our rights as part of this free nation until we can’t fight any more. We hope to see you sometime this year, either in New Mexico or with us in beautiful South Dakota. We support all shooters, regardless of whether or not they attend our courses or use our products, so please let us know if we can ever be of assistance to you.


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Sioux Falls, SD 57101

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