Having your magazine marked for visibility and identification makes it easier to get them returned.
Shooting schools are supposed to fun! Don’t tear yourself up, but if you do make sure you have a “boo-boo” kit and a trauma kit with you — not in the car.
Proper hydration is key to having a fun and educational time. Wearing a hydration carrier is ideal.
students think the same thing prior to signing up. Many have even con- fided in me that they had to work up the courage up to even ask about tak- ing the class. In some cases, I have also found the opposite to be true. I know many people who think that professional training has nothing to offer them. My first class, like many other
students, held the greatest amount of information I ever took from one lesson. Why? Because shooting isn’t that complex, and after you get the fundamentals: sight alignment, sight picture, trigger control and follow-
Buying low quality aftermarket parts for your guns and then having your handguards melt and fall off inhibits the learning environment.
Gimmicky products, like these sights, are best left off of guns meant for serious use.
though and technique (Weaver and isosceles stances, etc.), there isn’t a lot left. No matter how high speed a class is advertised, it’s still applying all of the basic knowledge you learned in the first course.
Always Training Though I have been instructing for
quite some time, I still take multiple classes each year to keep up with the current high-speed techniques (I also enjoy the time I get being a student, and not a teacher.) Being an instructor has made me a better student. I have learned from the
TOP 10 LIST OF TRAINING TIPS:
1. Use quality ammo — this is not the time to be cheap! 2. Buy quality gear and test fit everything before class. 3. Mark your magazines because they often get mixed up. Bring a magazine-loader. 4. Dump the ammo from all the little boxes into the ammo carton or range bag. 5. Bring a gun that works … and a backup, just in case. 6. Your range bag should have a trauma kit inside it. 7. Be sure to have at least six pistol mags and 10 rifle mags, for starters. 8. Bring a clean and properly lubricated gun and a basic cleaning kit and lubrication. 9. Bring all your ammo to every day of class. (Sometimes people don’t!) 10. Use a purpose-made gun belt. It’s not important whether it’s nylon or leather.
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other side what makes a class flow smoothly. What will make you learn more from a training environment and get the most for your money? — An open mind. The golden Rule is to have an open
mind. Think of every class as a clean slate. Push all of your previous train- ing to the side and do the class exactly like the instructor tells you. Even if the instructor tells you to do some- thing that is alien or never worked for you in the past. Looking back, I realize all of the money I wasted on training before I learned this concept. If you can’t honestly receive instruc- tion with an open mind, staying home would save you money and keep the instructor and you from pulling your hair out. Another problem with changing
techniques in a class is the fact that your groups might open up as you perfect a new method. This is natu- ral, but 99.9 percent of us won’t do it because we don’t want to look bad in front of the other ninjas. So we keep on pluggin’ away with our infe- rior methods. If you change the way you shoot you, will most likely have a short period of feeling awkward about the new technique. Classes are not competitions. Stay with it a while before you give up on it; it just might pay off.
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