Combat Training Weapons

Hey Everyone,

I am assuming this is the proper area of the forum to post about equipment and products, if not I apologize and let me know. I work for a disabled veteran owned company that was started up about a month ago by 3 guys out of Toledo, Ohio called Combat Training Aids.

They make inert training aids-- but what's different from the traditional training aids that most people are familiar with (i.e. blue guns and rubber ducks) is that these ones have collapsible stocks, actual Trijicon sights, are made from Urethane, etc. They make anything from Grail Rocket launchers to M4's and Springfield rifles. Not too many people are aware of us and that there actually are alternatives to what people recognize as the traditional training aid.

If you want to check it out the site is http://www.CombatTrainingAids.com

Interesting, but most of what I'm seeing on the site looks like your standard rubber duck or solid rubber type dummy. What makes these different from the RINGS or rubber duck versions?

I do prop weapon rentals and sometimes teach workshops in weapons handling for stage/screen, so I use my share of rubber guns.

Yeah, it's hard to distinguish inert training aids as they are pretty simple. However, we do our best to distinguish our products by manufacturing them with urethane (so they last longer), by properly weighting them, by equipping them with picatinny rails (so that training accessories can be attached, i.e. PEQs, lights, fore grips, etc.), by offering the option of 5 position collapsible stocks on our rifles and a whole lot of other custom features. We are in the process of getting some high-res. photos up to better display our products.

Cool. I've ended up screwing rail panels in the forearms of a couple of my rubber guns, so I can mount lights or forward grips on them. Kinda rare to use a bare M4 on screen these days.

If you're willing to cut any deals in exchange for exposure, I could bring a batch of your stuff to some of the stage combat workshops, review 'em in my stage combat/stunt blog, etc. Just drop me a line.

Sounds like a plan. Go to our website http://www.CombatTrainingAids.com, find some training aids that you're interested in, review the price and then e-mail me at support@combattrainingaids.com with what you think a fair price would be. Thanks for the follow up, what's your review blog?

So the carbines with rails... is it just rail panels screwed in to a standard M4, or did you actually mold one with an RIS handguard?

Our current products can be equipped with picatinny rails which are mounted directly into the mold. We are capable of placing any ancillary accessory onto our products (i.e. your RIS guards). Obviously pricing depends on how the gun is actually assembled (and with what parts). We can manufacture them with actual RIS guards but creating a Carbine with a molded RIS guard would not serve it's function very well as a result of the wear that would occur from attaching any metal accessory.

That was the long way of saying we are capable of doing anything, but the standard right now would be the Urethane Molded Carbine, with aluminum picatinny rails mounted directly onto the mold fore grip.