Rudy will be missed. Sorely missed.
A veteran with considerable firearms training, I met him during a pistol training course at Front Sight, and could immediately see that Rudy was by far a superlative instructor, an order of magnitude above others. He mentioned to me that he might be starting his own school in California — and when he opened it, my wife and I took several pistol classes from him at Sun Mountain Gun Club in Coarsegold, even spent several weekdays in private instruction with him. Not only was he an excellent instructor, he inspired confidence and excellence in those who worked with him and in each student.
The most sincere “thank you” I could offer him was to recommend him to others, and introduced many to him in Coarsegold and his school in Fernley.
He confided in me several months before his death that his stomach was bothering him. In my third year at his Nevada school, I last saw him in one of many pistol and rifles courses I’d completed with him. I was scheduled for three new classes in 2018 when I noted my calls and emails weren’t being returned. It wasn’t until I did some checking with others who knew him that I learned the shocking news.
Not only did I lose an excellent mentor and coach, I lost a good friend — a loss felt acutely by those I introduced to him as well. A teacher like him comes around all too seldom in life. He will be missed.
