Glock Training

I did the Glock Armorers course.
If you just want to be able to say that you are a certified Glock armorer for whatever reason, knock yourself out.
If you want to learn things about working on Glock pistols, my opinion is that you could learn the same information in a Saturday watching YouTube.
I did get a $2 Glock armorers punch, a pen, and a certificate from it. That and $1.14 will get me a breakfast burrito at MacDonalds.
 
For the original post classes, Day 1 was a separate class/course from Days 2 and 3. You can do one or the other or both.

Day 1 was the basic armorer's course. A lot of what you can find online in that class with a bit of insight and other useful knowledge. I enjoyed it, but can see why some folks wouldn't bother.

From what they told us the advanced armorer's class requires the basic class and then roughly 2 years experience. However, you can get exceptions on that if you talk with them. Apparently in the advanced class for the test they give you ~35 glock gun boxes, each with a glock in various states of disrepair/malfunction/etc and only a sticker on the side with a one or two word description of the problem. Then you gotta fix them all! @5532JWK would know for sure though.

Day 2 and 3 was the operator's course. Lots of shooting and different drills! Didn't quite go through the 1000 rounds they said to bring though. I think I ended up a little over 700, but it also depends on mag capacity and shots fired for some of the drills. These two days were a lot of fun and I would do it again. However, if you are a competitive shooter or someone who gets to do that type of shooting/practice often, then it probably isn't for you. I don't get a lot of time or opportunities to do that type of shooting so this was a great class. Jim is a very good instructor and full of great stories as well. He taught both the armorer's course and the operator's course this time.

The second day of the operator course is mostly running through the various stages of their test to see if you qualify for "Glock Operator" and if so, what level (1-4). It was a fun and challenging way to see how your skills progressed. The competitive shooter in our class was the only one to get to level 4. I only made level 1, but was close to level 2. My main problem was rushing my shots which caused me to miss just a bit wide and the time penalty for those misses got me.

Overall a fun, informative and challenging 3 days. I won't be able to take that much time off from work again for this type of thing, but it was worth for me this time.
 
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