I Got Shot Five Times In A Florida Prison. It Was Awesome.

By Bob Owens

“Hey, Bob! You want to come hang out in a former maximum security prison in south Florida for a week and shoot guns from helicopters and get ambushed by robots and then shot with UTMs while a major hurricane is bearing down on the region?”

Okay, that might not have been the exact way Daniel Defense pitched the writers event at Altair Training Solutions this past summer, but that’s pretty much how it ended up when the event rolled around in early October.

Sponsors such as Oakley, Kühl, and Solomon were very generous with eye protection, gear bag, pants, and shoes, and of course, Daniel Defense, M-TEK, Nightforce, Surefire, TNVC, and Trijicon brought the toys. RUAG provided all the ammunition for the event, whether it was for the the long range or down to inches.

Here’s a shot (courtesy of Surefire) of the precision rifle range at Altair Training Solutions. You’re not going to see the end of the range, because it’s two miles away.

It was here that we went to work with Daniel Defense DD5V1 and Ambush rifles mounted with Nightforce optics.

It was my first time shooting a …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms