Dan Abbot, Oregon Firearms Academy LLC (OFA) delivers defensive small arms and tactics instruction to law enforcement, corrections, armed security, private investigators, and private citizens. OFA's staff is a blend of high ranking law enforcement instructors and highly qualified instructors from the private sector. This diversity is what makes OFA's courses so rich in content and relevancy for the "real world." Several staff members are senior firearm instructors at the Oregon Police Academy, for a local Sheriff's Office, local dual-county SWAT Team and SERT (Special Emergency Response Team). Also, all of the staff are adjunct firearm instructors for Clint Smith's International Training Consultants and John Farnam's Defensive Training International. OFA also provides multiple firearms courses through the Continuing Education/Job Training programs at Lane Community College and Linn-Benton Community College, including courses for new law enforcement and armed private security officers.

Nathan,

I want to give you a quick update on the Next Gen we purchased for our Academy. We showcased your rifle at this past weekend’s off-site Intermediate/Advanced Carbine course. The conditions were miserable with typical rain, fog, and lots of mud. The carbine was covered in mud and still performed without a hiccup and not one spot of rust.

Several students were struggling shooting their carbines from elevated positions out to 275 yards so we loaned the NGA to them and they were able to get immediate and consistent hits. During one phase of training a student wanted to try the NGA. After two rounds (and this is from a student who owns several high end customized ARs) he turned, smiled and said to me “Wow! I need to talk to Jim!”

Now keep in mind these are advanced level students and they already have excellent guns and are very squared away. During two days of intensive training (around 1500 rounds) everyone’s rifles performed well and they had some expensive hardware in this course. Even so, two students are so impressed they are in the process of having discussions with Jim about purchasing a couple NGA carbines!

So hopefully this will yield a sale or two.

On another note…we did experience a stuck cartridge in a chamber jam (not a malfunction) rending the carbine inert. The student had to transition to his handgun to finish the course of fire. I was totally shocked as was Jim that the rifle went down during a course of fire. Once the drill was over and we were able to assess what happened we found out the student, a smoker, was putting his cigarette butts in his back pocket. He was also placing his magazines in the same pocket. When he executed a Combat Reload (empty reload) he inserted a magazine that apparently had a cigarette butt stuck between the top two rounds.  When he chambered a cartridge it also wedged the butt into the six o’clock position causing the round not to fully chamber and the extractor could not remove the cartridge. It was a nasty situation (literally). We were easily able to clear the cartridge along with the cigarette butt. However the rifle now has a nicotine patch on it as it is now going through withdrawals! In 35+ years in the business this is a first!

Thanks again for an amazing rifle! We hope to send more business your way!

Dan