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Junior Shooters and Forward Movement Training in Idaho
Posted by Junior Shooters
By: Mike Sacks and Juniors
Hi, everyone. As you know, we, at Junior Shooters magazine, care about kids and their parents and want you to have a place to go to find what is needed to get started in many different shooting venues. Questions are answered in our printed magazine and website about safety, guns and gear, protective gear, events, organizations and more.
What you may not know is that we also provide ‘hands-on training’ in Idaho for juniors who are part of our Junior Shooters team who want to be competitors at the MGM Ironman 3-Gun Match in June each year. Even though our training is extensive, we have been limited to providing training at a variety of ranges in the area.
Things have changed thanks to Forward Movement Training Center in Meridian, ID.
Forward Movement opened earlier this year offering a facility geared towards advanced tactical training for police, military and civilians. We met earlier this year with Matt and Christen, the owners, and found a facility that we could use for our training as well.
Forward Movement is a 17,000-square-foot facility with many options that are well-suited for our needs. There is a classroom that can seat over 40 students, open spaces where we can practice a variety of drills, and the best part is the VirTra 100LE Simulator.
The VirTra 100LE Simulator is a state-of-the-art training simulator that provides hundreds of different training scenarios with many of them geared for marksmanship training. Forward Movement has a room dedicated to this reactive laser training system. One wall of the room is a full screen where different 
video marksmanship courses can be run. The students use actual Glock pistols that have been modified using a combination of a laser and CO2. The result is that when a student acquires a target and pulls the trigger, the pistol simulates recoil and shots are placed where the sight picture presents them. There are simulated paper targets that we use that actually show where the hits are. This is extremely valuable from a coach’s perspective as we can see where the student is shooting and help them to develop his or her skills without using live ammunition. Other scenarios use steel plates and moving targets which can be engaged from a variety of distances. We have even developed our own course that we use just for Juniors Shooters.
We train our Junior Shooters to be safe and skilled shooters using modern sporting rifles, shotguns and pistols so that they may compete in well-supervised 3-Gun matches. The targets used are steel plates and simple cardboard targets with scoring areas on them.
Forward Movement Training has much more to offer law enforcement and military than we use. They have a 2,100-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bath residence. The house is fully furnished as if it were occupied including furniture, appliances, clothing, pictures and more. There is a bank that is outfitted with all of the things that make them look authentic. The bank has a teller line, computers, paperwork and cubicles.
The large Forward Movement Training mat room allows for various hands-on combat training. There is also an open area of about 5,000 square feet that we use for a variety of training classes. Many of these are line drills where the juniors learn how to move safely while manipulating their firearms and simulate shooting. Safety is the key and if you practice safety off the range you will be safe on the range.
Soon, outside the facility there will be several vehicles for training use. The vehicles include a full-size bus, multiple different types of sedans, a truck, and a motorcycle.
Forward Movement Training is the only facility of its kind within 500 miles.
For civilians, the following courses are offered.
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Home and Urban Defense
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Women’s Self-Defense
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Concealed Weapons Course
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Team Building Exercises
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Women-Only Home Defense
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Prosecutors at the Crime Scene
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Crime Lab at the Crime Scene
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Security Tactics
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Bank Employee (Hold-up, Robbery, Hostage) Training
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Decision-Making Scenarios (Shoot/Don’t Shoot)
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Ongoing Weekly Self-Defense Training
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Private/Family Lessons (Any Topic)
Please contact Forward Movement for Law Enforcement Courses or any of the courses above. The simulator room also can be rented out for private individuals or groups.
www.forwardmovementtraining.com
The folks at Forward Movement are great and we are privileged to be able to have such a diverse facility available!
Here are some comments from some of our juniors about going to Forward Movement:
Wyatt Irish (15): AWESOME! I love Forward Movement. This is a great place to perform drills necessary to be successful in 3-Gun as well as being a good place to meet up and learn your firearm’s ins and outs. Overall I love Forward Movement.
Once more in our new building and excited to be there. We started off with a short half-hour class, then moved on to doing some line drills to build strength and doing a little practice in the simulator room. I really liked that we did some line drills to get back into the feel of things and using the simulator as well. I also liked the fact that the class time was very factual.
Karli Wellman (15): Today we learned how to handle our shotguns. We also learned how to put shotgun shells in the shotgun. The shotgun is not really for me right now, but I just have to keep at it and just keep working with it, so sooner or later I will get used to it or I will have to deal with it. I had a lot of fun and I practiced hard. We also went into the simulator room to practice our aim, stances, and our grouping. The first round I didn’t do too well on my grouping. The second round I was a little better, but still not too good. Then I got to the last round and I only had one shot that was in a different place out of seven. On that last round I was so happy with myself.
Bryson Smith (14): Awesome! I love Forward Movement. What I couldn’t believe was that the simulation pistols (GLOCK 22 CO2 simulator laser pistols) cost $7,500 each. Also, I loved the buildings inside the building, too. What I really wanted to do was go through the buildings with the simulation pistol.
Jessica Brown (16): This Wednesday was my first time having the opportunity to practice with the Junior Shooters Magazine at Forward Movement. Practice is key in anything you wish to do, and as far as shooting and tactical maneuvers, Forward Movement is the perfect place. This Wednesday was very instructional and I learned some things I had never known before, and reviewed various basic, but important aspects of shooting.
Knowing your firearms is important because it can help on stages with different target sizes, distance of the target and weather influence. I learned about the ballistics of my rifle, pistol, and shotgun and about the different types of ammo for the best outcome in many situations. We also reviewed safety and sight picture/sight alignment and I had the chance to take a tour of the facility and try out Forward Movement’s awesome simulator. On a last (but very not least) note, I would like to thank Matt Schneider for letting the Junior Shooters team train in his facility.
Ben Moody (16): Forward Movement is an excellent training facility that allows individuals to experience firearm simulation without having to use live rounds. My favorite piece of training equipment is the VirTra simulator. The simulator allows us to check our groups more efficiently and for our instructors to adjust and make corrections in our shooting techniques from different angles.
Check it out in the new issue.
Volume 18 Summer,
Junior Shooters magazine
Available July 2014. Call 208-629-8967
send a check or money order for $12.00
Junior Shooters
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Boise, ID 83714.
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