Just think how high quality all the training would be if it were all FREE! Woohoo!
Everyone would be trying to wish a backup rifle out of thin air for the phantom reload drill.
Just think how high quality all the training would be if it were all FREE! Woohoo!
Just think how high quality all the training would be if it were all FREE! Woohoo!
One problem in my opinion is all the "training instructors" that have popped up over the last several years. There seem to be a lot of shooting instructors that hang their shingle on being a police officer for fifteen years or a tour in Iraq. I want someone who can actually teach me rather then someone who can just tell me about their experience and I am supposed to be impressed.
I prefer someone who has "been there and done that". If I'm learning something in a "fighting rifle" (or whatever someone wants to call it) class, I would rather be taught by someone who has experience in combat situation than someone who is just parroting theory.
I do agree that being a police officer for fifteen years or serving a tour in Iraq does not automatically qualify one to be an instructor.
A lot of these new training companies (one close to me up here that is new included) are started by cops with no real world experience other than training and they are just parroting what they were taught in classes they've been to.
Have you had a problem with a "name" instructor or group?I get the real world experience and agree with you there. Its the guys who think because they were in the army for five years it automatically qualifies them as a "instructor." It is not as easy as it sounds to find someone to teach what you are looking for and get the message across as well.
Most people have zero training so anything is better than nothing.
In light of a recent thread, I'm going to BTT this sucker.
Maybe some of our newer membership can vote in the poll.
Too subjective of a survey to be of value to a researcher.
Identifying exactly what class is to be covered would be a better indicator because it will affect people's response depending on the level of knowledge they feel they already possess. Leaving it open ended, simply allows for them to assume the class in reference is "whatever class they wish to take" should cost, or other various interpretations.
I didn't pay a dime for any of my firearms training. In fact, I WAS PAID to take the training. I had to sign 4 years of my life away to Uncle Sam to get it, but I got more than I ever bargained for. Rifles, pistols, high explosives, mortars, anti tank weapons, artillery, grenade launchers, crew served machine guns, night vision, FLIR, claymore mines, improvised explosive devises, ETC.
What is some hot shot range cowboy gonna show me?