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So I heard you guys like night vision and machine guns

TheGerman

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    Never looked through current gen night vision and want to try? Ever shot a carbine with a full power laser in the dark? Have an itch to shoot vehicle mounted belt feds and fully automatic sub-machine guns but don't want to be stuck shooting indoors at 20 yards like every other place? Want to spend the night on a 550 acre training facility with a complete FOB, military vehicles and multiple shooting areas that have you using your helmet mounted night vision to shoot inside of vehicles, maneuvering through shoot houses or throwing a grenade at a Ford F250? Have night vision but are a bit light in the 'blowing shit up' category?

    Well, I got you covered fam....




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    Blackout - Utah
    www.blackoutUT.com



    Who are we?

    We are the World's Only Night Vision and Machine Gun Experience. Located in St George, Utah just 30 minutes from Zion National Park and 90 minutes from Las Vegas, we are on a 550 acre secure site with multiple professionally built shooting areas, machine gun lanes, pistol areas, facilities and a FOB. We offer a personalized, guided experience centered around the use of night vision, IR lasers and various weapons systems in a unique, safe and fun setting available absolutely nowhere else.

    It doesn't matter If you have had some time with night vision or have never held a firearm, this experience was designed with every skill level in mind and is completely scalable to each group or individual while under the direction of our extremely capable cadre consisting of members with United States military combat arms and Special Operations backgrounds.


    What do we offer?

    Upon arrival, your group will receive an overview, safety briefing and in person demonstration in the Ready Room inside of our lit FOB that is furnished, climate controlled and generates it's own power. Focus will be placed on the safe operation and mechanics of the weapons platform(s) you will be using, individual gun setup and correct technique in relation to using your weapon(s) together with aiming lasers and helmet mounted night vision. Once completed, you will be fitted with your helmet and given a demonstration on how to adjust and manipulate your night vision binocular followed by an initial dry fire routine on a square training range we call the 'Bunny Hill', to become comfortable and confidant with your setup, as well as receive any additional instruction prior to your first live course of fire.

    Successfully graduating from the live fire phase of the 'Bunny Hill' now has you ready for an experience that can include:

    - Shooting inside of, through or around cars, vans and trucks
    - Moving, reactive and exploding targets
    - 'Bonus' targets where a hit can land you extra ammunition, prizes or the infamous Russian Spetsnaz 'I shot a hostage' trophy
    - Non static courses of fire where you will move between real world barricades, enter vehicles and shoot from behind cover
    - Throwing a simunition M67 grenade at the enemy prior to beginning your assault on their position
    - Moving inside an elaborate purpose built shoot house with a solid, breachable door, CQB type shooting, hallways, multiple inside/outside areas and moving targets
    - Increasing levels of difficulty by including unknown round counts, fun penalties and timed stages where you can see where you stack up on our all time leader boards (optional)
    - Driving off road through the beautiful southern Utah high desert while only using night vision in a Polaris MRZR (optional)
    - Vehicle mounted IR equipped, belt fed Mk46 and M240 at our outdoor machine gun range
    - Fully automatic IR equipped MP5, MP5k, MK18, M4A1
    - Night optimized pistols at our pistol gallery shooting steel, plate racks, mom's microwave and other interesting stuff you've always wanted to shoot but never could


    What is all included?

    All guests will be issued their own individual gear for the duration of their experience to include:

    - Gen3 White Phosphorus RNVG night vision binocular
    - Bump helmet with night vision mount
    - Helmet mounted Peltor ComTac electronic hearing protection
    - Eye protection
    - 11.5 inch MILSPEC M4 carbine
    - Weapon mounted AN/PEQ15(A) ATPIAL (Advanced Target Pointer Illuminator Aiming Laser)
    - 100 rounds of 5.56 ammunition
    - Simunition M67 Fragmentation grenade
    - Ammunition bag
    - Chest rig with magazines
    - Chemlights


    Coming Soon

    While we are currently fully operational and accepting new customers, we also have a few other things in the works that you may be interested in hearing about for FY2022/2023 to include:

    - Experiences that will involve riding in a UH-1 at night while shooting a mounted machine gun and utilizing night vision
    - Night vision long range/precision range
    - Adding additional fully automatic platforms
    - Formal night vision training courses


    There is a lot more than just what is mention here going on, so feel free to PM with any questions or also contact me via email at [email protected]




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    The advancements in the newer gens of night vision are pretty cool. Full autos on the other hand lost their luster with me long ago. I blame it mostly on being only 7 when I first shot one. If you are ever at a machine gun shoot that I attend, I will not be hard to find at all. I will be the guy who keeps the fun switch on semi or just does 2-3 shot bursts. :ROFLMAO:
     
    This is really awesome! A perfect niche to fill, and a great gap in skill set to be closing up. I hope this goes well for you; I know I would like to find time for a trip to UT.......🙂👍
     
    Very nice and congratulations on the endeavor. (y)

    Does the gift shop offer helicopter hat fans and mist sprayer rigs to accessorize one's helmet with?

    You know, since your location is one of the hottest places on the earth.
     
    Is there an experience where someone in the group loses a piece of kit, and we walk endlessly though the desert looking for it while someone calls us names?
    Oh that brings back memories. I had borrowed a 5 ton at NTC and was driving around to pick up some of my guys from a mission and happened to find a stinger team walking through the desert. I picked them up, then found some other guys walking alone out there (they had gotten separated in the fight) by the time I finished driving around I had about 20 guys in the 5 ton. I later got a call from the BN XO asking if I had seen a stinger team and I let him know I picked them up he said it was good because their unit wants them back.

    Good old days
     
    Will there be a night vision "ninja" course that involves the use of night vision with correct spear chunking and throwing star techniques ?

    So here's a funny story.

    While having the lanes and shooting areas set up and moving cars/vans out there we all ended up with this weird competition that none of us could stop doing;

    Picking up rocks and throwing them at cars from distance while trying to get it to go inside of the window. None of us could stop doing it and once once of us started we'd all just do it and not stop.
     
    I can make that happen.

    I forget the name (is it Fizz?) but theres a superior place to Swig here now.
    Twisted Sugar is much better, just can't tell my buddy. He married the Swig owners daughter recently
     
    I’m guessing this experience is not for the poors…

    When this was still an idea, we did multiple focus groups. 1 of them was a group of 30ish people from SH. The focus group was given an outline, pictures, possibilities, etc and price was not mentioned until the very end so that they would already have a perceived value in their minds by the time they saw the price as opposed to having a 'is this worth it' outlook the entire time.

    When everything came back, the pricing questions came back overwhelming with either being in line with what they thought, or, that they thought it would cost much more.

    I went to a great length to keep the pricing down to make this something that was affordable (considering whats involved/included) instead of just trying to keep finding those handful of people who would drop any amount of money to experience this.
     
    Very nice and congratulations on the endeavor. (y)

    Does the gift shop offer helicopter hat fans and mist sprayer rigs to accessorize one's helmet with?

    You know, since your location is one of the hottest places on the earth.

    The web store is coming soon. No hat misters though, but who knows.

    Right now, the list of items that will be available for sale are:

    - Gift certificate
    - T shirts
    - Coffee (made by our coffee sponsor that I had people try coffee at, that has our label on it)
    - A carbine Gucci sling (not even kidding, its actual Gucci material, I use one on my KAC)
    - Bumper sticker & patch

    Once we rotate into bringing the training side of things online, I already have access to being able to sell night vision and all of the equipment that I use.

    It does cool down at night. The other thing is, if you're THAT hot, just go inside the FOB as its air conditioned.
     
    Is there an experience where someone in the group loses a piece of kit, and we walk endlessly though the desert looking for it while someone calls us names?

    That's the real word practical applications training portion.

    it also involves being locked in the back of a parked LMTV with all of your gear on for an hour.
     
    99.9% sure someone is going to get called out as a slow stupid ’Muppit’ and taking up air that was meant for real men🤔 Kidding aside this sounds like a super cool adventure and I know you’ll make it happen😎
     
    So here's a funny story.

    While having the lanes and shooting areas set up and moving cars/vans out there we all ended up with this weird competition that none of us could stop doing;

    Picking up rocks and throwing them at cars from distance while trying to get it to go inside of the window. None of us could stop doing it and once once of us started we'd all just do it and not stop.

    Isn't this just the "hitting the guy picking up the golf balls on the driving range" game with numerous extra steps?

    If I bring my wife to this shindig, what's the over under on her leaving me for a man with a bigger KAC?
     
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    Isn't this just the "hitting the guy picking up the golf balls on the driving range" game with numerous extra steps?

    If I bring my wife to this shindig, what's the over under on her leaving me for a man with a bigger KAC?

    The real question is, what are her chances of defeating my wife in a round of drunken Kung Fu?

    I also shoot Cobalt now.
     
    OK- I decided this is my birthday present to myself. Read everything and this is VERY reasonable. Great job on the site, too (I demo software for a living). I'll PM you next week, regarding a couple of questions. Plan on booking for the end September.