Thursday, November 18, 2004

GUNSITE Rising

I haven't been out to GUNSITE in more than a decade, and it's amazing how much the old place has changed! Buzz Mills, who bought the most famous shooting school in the world a few years back and proceeded to pour $4 million into it.

The results are pretty spectacular--2000 acres of state-of-the-art training facilities, including two enclosed shoot houses, computer-controlled targets, ranges out to 1600 meters, a hunting simulator (you tell them where you plan to hunt, and they'll build you a training simulation) and a seemingly endless variety of Gunsite's signature jungle lanes. We spent the day with Giles Stock, Gunsite's ace senior instructor who has survived both the good and bad times, putting together a sampler of what the new Gunsite has to offer.

We were so impressed that we're working on a deal for doing several episodes every season at Gunsite.

And wait until you see the helicopter shots of the Rifle Scramble!