Please educate me.
In various Hide threads on so-called tactical lever action rifles ("cowboy tactical"), I've seen negative comments about Mr. Costa. I'm an old guy, old enough to have trained with Jeff Cooper when Gunsite was nought but a couple of prefab buildings, and the Sconce not even a gleam in his eye. There are many legitimate teachers, younger than I, whom I don't know.
Anyway, most of the stuff I think I know about Mr. Costa comes from when he was with MagPul in Colorado, when he had what I took to be a favorable reputation. I know that he was absent from the scene for a while, perhaps mysteriously, and that he's now emerged again into the ambit of training and firearms use expertise. I see that he likes leverguns, that in Dallas he's done at least one how-to-run-a-lever-action-in-a-fight class, that he espouses some techniques with such long guns that I've not seen elsewhere but seem reasonable, and that he's endorsing some of Ranger Point Precision's levergun parts and accessories...or that they've made stuff to his specs.
Whence cometh the dislike? I don't care about Mr. Costas one way or another particularly. But I'm interested in training and trainers, having known and been taught by some of the old masters. I'm always ready to learn. So...what's what, gentlemen?
Cheers and salaams,
dk
In various Hide threads on so-called tactical lever action rifles ("cowboy tactical"), I've seen negative comments about Mr. Costa. I'm an old guy, old enough to have trained with Jeff Cooper when Gunsite was nought but a couple of prefab buildings, and the Sconce not even a gleam in his eye. There are many legitimate teachers, younger than I, whom I don't know.
Anyway, most of the stuff I think I know about Mr. Costa comes from when he was with MagPul in Colorado, when he had what I took to be a favorable reputation. I know that he was absent from the scene for a while, perhaps mysteriously, and that he's now emerged again into the ambit of training and firearms use expertise. I see that he likes leverguns, that in Dallas he's done at least one how-to-run-a-lever-action-in-a-fight class, that he espouses some techniques with such long guns that I've not seen elsewhere but seem reasonable, and that he's endorsing some of Ranger Point Precision's levergun parts and accessories...or that they've made stuff to his specs.
Whence cometh the dislike? I don't care about Mr. Costas one way or another particularly. But I'm interested in training and trainers, having known and been taught by some of the old masters. I'm always ready to learn. So...what's what, gentlemen?
Cheers and salaams,
dk
