ProTEQ Firearms Academy
ProTEQ
Firearms
Academy
About Andy --->
Andy was our Master Range Officer (MRO). He was in
charge of all range safety whenever we ran a class.
Andy kept a keen eye on all the people present
(students & instructors) to see that safe & proper gun
handling techniques were present. He has been
shooting for over 40 years. He comes from a family of
competition shooters and Law Enforcement Officers.
Andy served as a ProTEQ RO for nearly 20 years
and is an excellent one handed shooter. He has to
shoot one handed because he suffered a stroke at
age 9 and has very limited use of his right hand. He is
a fine example of how shooters with challenges can
excel at whatever they choose to face. You'll see Andy
on the range so become his friend and student.
He's too big, strong, fast, and accurate to turn into
an enemy. PLUS ........
He's ProTEQ's Gentle Giant.
About Larry------>
Larry was the Operations Range Officer (ORO). He often passed out range paperwork,
gave advise about the rules, and watched to see that Patrons act properly. He doesn't come out
as often now since he moved several miles away from the Property. He's been an active
shooter for several decades. He hunted for many years. He's explored the under world as a
certified scuba diver. The exceptional part of all that is he did it after becoming paralyzed at
age 17. Larry functions with very weak fingers. So weak that he must pull the trigger by
using the thumb and muscles of his secondary arm while holding the gun with his primary hand.
I'm always impressed with how well he shoots. Larry is another great example of how
shooters with challenges excel, because of their drive. Larry's the one in the Big Van.
Pick on him.....I do.
The Range Officer --------->
<--------- The Marksman
<---About Mark
Mark is a Rose Hulman Institute of Technology Mechanical Engineer with about 40 years of firearms
experience. He was a walk on member of their Rose Rifle Team shooting 4 years as a Varsity Letterman.
Mark set 10 out of the school's 12 marksmanship records, earning him induction into their Hall of Fame.
It took more than a decade and several thousand dollars of new rifles for the subsequent Rose Riflemen
to beat Mark's records. He has served as a lead RO and top Instructor at ProTEQ since those college
days. He's also spent many hours shooting Service Rifle in NRA high power matches, winning the
2004 Indiana State Championship. Mark was raised as a hunter and learned most of his initial
marksmanship skills shooting ball and patch with a muzzle loader he and his father assembled together.
He spends productive time with his friends and family in deer stands and rolling fields gathering food
for the freezer. Mark has mastered a broad array of weapons in several categories including archery,
black powder muzzle loading, handguns, and AR15s. He uses all of them regularly. Mark has an
extensive background in reloading. He is knowledgeable in the fields of in-flight ballistics, terminal
ballistics, and projectile design. Mark is well informed and quite talented with many different
weapons. He also has a fine understanding of how to teach those skills. Mark is the the 5th
ProTEQ Master Instructor. Search him out and learn from the best.
