Accuracy Speaks Customers,

On 1 AUG 2010, I sold my controlling interest in Accuracy Speaks, Inc. to my protégé, Mr. Martin Kolodziej. He has worked for us since 2005, and it was always my intent to sell him the business. I will still be involved and available in the shop FRI-SUN most weekends. We will still offer the experience and services that have brought you to Accuracy Speaks, Inc. for the last 20 years. Additionally, we will be offering a variety of classes in Long Range Shooting, NRA Service Rifle and Gunsmithing. Please check this website for dates and pricing.
 

THANX and GOOD SHOOTIN'

DERRICK & CHERYL

ACCURACY SPEAKS PARTS and ACCESSORIES, LLC     

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It has been two years since my last update to this message board. Since then, I have been working for the Arizona Army National Guard, first as a soldier during my recovery and Physical Therapy after the surgery, and after as a civilian. I worked in the Training Site Command, writing Training Plans for deploying units. It seems that Marksmanship has become a new priority, as the lessons learned from the War are implemented. We now train Close Quarter Battle and Squad Designated Marksman. It seems we couldn’t hit anything close or far, but somehow everything in between was just fine. 

        My arm and shoulder never regained their full use and it was determined that I was no longer able to serve in the National Guard. My last day in the Army was 24 AUG 2006, and it was spent driving an open cab truck 200 miles in a rain storm. That pretty much summed up my 30 years of service, always the guy for the dirty job.

        I spent the next several months as the Site Supervisor at the Florence Training Site. I oversaw the operation and maintenance of 12 ranges and 20,000 acres of land.

        In JAN of 2007, I was reassigned as the Range Master Planner for the AZNG. There has been a paradigm shift in the Guard. We are no longer preparing for a massed land battle in Europe. The AZNG Artillery and Transportation units are becoming Infantry and Military Police. The problem is that we have Artillery Ranges and no Infantry Ranges.  I have 12 Ranges planned at Camp Navajo, in Flag staff and 6 Ranges planned in Florence. However, there are no funds allocated for their construction, so we are building them with available materials and labor. I spend more time driving the equipment and fixing it than designing new ranges. One day “Big Army” may send us some money, until then, we “build it out of hide”.

        I am still heavily involved with the Marksmanship Program (SARTB), although I am no longer an active competitor. We have several very competent people and I am moving into a support role. It is now time for others to take over.

        Accuracy Speaks is still very much a growing concern. Mr. Kolodziej has proved to be a very capable Gunsmith and Businessman, he has been asked to manage the day to day operation of the shop. I am in the store from FRI-SUN most weeks.

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      Derrick Martin’s lifelong interest in firearms led him to enlist in the Marine Corps at 1976, where he first entered competitive shooting.  Upon discharge he enrolled in the Trinidad Jr. College gunsmithing program and graduated in 1980.  He spent the next ten years in retail gunsmithing, working for Safari Arms, Smith Enterprises, and retail gun stores in Arizona and Nevada.

      During that time he was an active NRA High power rifle competitor with the Arizona National Guard and the All National Guard rifle team.  He became a Distinguished Rifleman in 1987, joined the Palma Twenty in 1988, also becoming a President’s 100 shooter in 1988, an NRA High Master in 1992, and a National Guard Chief’s Fifty Shooter in 1995.  Derrick became a Distinguished Pistol Shot in 1996.

Derrick has been a continuous member of the All National Guard rifle team since 1988, and has been on winning teams at the National Guard Wilson Matches, All Army matches, and interservice competition at Camp Perry, as well as the Australian and British Skill At Arms Matches.  In 1993 he developed the National Guard’s M16 match rifle program and has been a leading national proponent of the M16 both as a service rifle and NRA match rifle.