Many of you know that I am a native Wisconsin resident who is now living and working in Utah and that I have family and friends in Wisconsin. I am an NRA Certified Range Safety Officer and NRA Certified Instructor in Pistol, Rifle, and Personal Protection and I am a Utah BCI Certified Concealed Firearms Instructor. (Those ratings did not come cheaply.) I will be returning to WI in the Spring or early summer to visit family and friends. In another post, I wrote that I would consider teaching the Utah CFP course if I could recover my travel costs, but I have changed my mind. After all, I did not invest in all those ratings to make a lot of money. I did it because I believe in the God Given right of every member of society to protect themselves from evil. And, I will be visiting WI whether or not I teach the course.
I have never met Mr. Moore and I am sure he is a competent and experienced instructor. And, his $100 fee is at the bottom of the fee structure charged by businesses offering the UT CFP course in WI and surrounding States, so, by definition, it is a bargain. He too invested in his NRA ratings and then flew (or drove) to Salt Lake City to get his instructor training. In my Certification Class, only 7 of the 85 students were from Utah and I learned that some folks in the Eastern States conducted the UT class at $150 per student and had about 100 students per class. Do that once a month and you do not have to work for a living.
Above, I wrote that I will be coming to WI anyway. In UT there are nearly as many BCI Certified CFP Instructors as there are in the rest of the USA combined. So, the prices here tend to be about $50 per student with some "bargain training" being as low as $40 per student if certain class sizes are met.
So, here is the deal. When I come to WI, I will teach the course to WI or IL residents for $40 per head, regardless of the number of students. UT does not require a live shoot, but if somebody wants training in a live shoot, I will do it if the student pays the range fee and/or if somebody can get, find, or donate an appropriate area to practice shooting.
Go to:
http://publicsafety.utah.gov/bci/documents/MTC01032011.pdf
This is the course found on the Utah BCI website. If students already have the course, I do not need to spend money on printing costs.
For this to work, I need to have somebody coordinate in WI. My mom is in a nursing home in Janesville and I will be staying with friends in Burlington. I will try to arrange my availability for a weekend. Going "up north" and teaching a class is probably a non-starter due to the fact that it adds just too much to my expenses and takes too much travel time that I could be spending with family and friends.
One more thing. This may not be fair and it may not be popular, but McX gets a "free ride" if he wants the UT course because he likes my cat avatar and says nice things to me.