Opspec Training still in business?

"The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams

“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free."
-Niccolo Machiavelli

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken

June 12, 2026, 02:10 PM

MikeGLI

I'd love to take another class with Jerry.

June 15, 2026, 08:23 PM

jljones

Wish I had a cool story. I just got burned out teaching. It wasn’t really the teaching, it was the constant travel.

In the late 90s and early 2000s, I trained a lot, shot a lot and took a lot of classes. Then I started teaching. For about 15 years, I traveled twice a month and got the privilege and honor to teach a lot of guys. This month the west coast and SIG academy, next month Texas and Colorado. All while working a full time job. It was a lot of fun.

I stopped training on my own. Most of the shooting I was doing was to film social media content, It stopped being fun.

When I transferred in 2023 to a new position at my day job, I decided I was going to focus on me. I still hang around here some but I have no other online footprint. I started shooting matches last year again and training the way I should have been all along. This month I’m doing 5 matches and I hit a two day class over the weekend. My big goal is to compete at Area 2 this fall. I’ve turned down two jobs to teach elsewhere.

All of the OpSpec infrastructure is still in place. I’ll look at it again towards the end of the year and reassess.

I appreciate the faith and support that the guys on this forum and other students have placed in our brand over the years. As I near retirement, if I feel we have something to offer, we may fire back up.

June 15, 2026, 08:39 PM

RNshooter

Fist and foremost, good job on putting yourself first. Not enough people in the helping professions know how to do that without a hospital stay or a burning bush to tell them "it's time".

Enjoy shooting again. Luck in the competition.

We'll be here if the itch to teach comes back.

Be well.

Bruce