Posted: 3/17/2003 3:49:37 AM EDT
| Does anyone have experience with simunitions? I've heard a little about them, and they seem like a practical training tool. I was thinking about taking their 4 day course this summer in CT. Has anyone here taken it? If so, whatever you can tell me would be appreciated. |
| Simuntions allows you to utilize your own weapon for training, a conversion kit is installed for the simunition. The course is well worth the time and effort, it gives you insight to what an armed encounter can and will develop into. Since you can use your own weapon you can get a realistic feel and reaction as opposed to "playing" paintball. By the way, simunitions hurt more than paintballs. |
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I was lucky enough to get to use simunitions on two occasions in the police academy - building searches and traffic stops. Very realistic. Your gun, same trigger pull, goes bang and cyles. For about a week I sported the 5 welts on my back that resulted from prematurely "clearing" a room in the building search. Ouch! Take the course! Dave |
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Simmuntions is the company name. They make several types of specialty ammo. FX marking cartidges are what you are refering to. The "conversion units" are supposedly sensitve to dirt. Glock sells "blue guns" set up for the FX cartridges, they are supposed to be much better performers than the conversion units. Get, and use the recomended protective gear. Simmunitions will only sell their FX gear, and ammo to people who have taken the course, or organizations that have FX trained people in them. Having said that, FX rocks. It can really be an eye opener when you are shooting at another person, who is shooting at you. Or it can really reinforce things like the 21' rule, and reactionary gaps. |