MAG 40 -- Thoughts

So, it's been just over two months since I took MAG40 at Firearms Academy of Seattle. Before I went, I had noticed that there seemed to be few reviews/AARs of the course on the Internet. I wasn’t sure why, perhaps Massad Ayoob discouraged such, lest proprietary information be revealed?

I am now prepared to state that it more likely that the “drinking from a fire hose” nature of the class makes it difficult, to say the least, to distill the lessons into a blog post.

“Drinking from a fire hose”: That’s the way someone, I think it was Ry Jones, described the class when, at dinner after Ray Carter’s funeral, I explained why I was staying in a motel in Centralia rather than make the hour and a half one way drive to FAS every day.

Anyway.

My notes from the classroom portion run over 30 pages, and I am not done¹ transcribing/editing them; I have no intention of trying to publish multiple uber-posts of the class, but that's what it would take, because I cannot distill the experience into a single post.

But here's an attempt:
(After the jump. It was kind of long...)

I was too busy lernin' to take pichures...

...'cuz I was takin' a class from Mas at FAS. 

But I got a couple.

Me and Mas.
Note to self: Take the hat off. This is after adjusting lighting...

The bandanna came out of the pocket and was applied to the back of my neck after the hot brass issue mentioned in the previous post.
Come to think of it, it's as old as the Colt and Pachmeyr magazines mentioned in the previous post.

Marty Hayes and I.
Marty (in case you didn't know) is the Chief Executive of FAS, and of the
Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network