Training on your own

[Marswolf]

Something to be said for play. I like to go with friends who enjoy stuff like pistol shooting at 100 yards. Just play, but it also develops skills.

[Guest Greentimber]

..... on ranges every day of the week and explain to people why what they are doing is wrong and try to get them to change. The people who have been shooting the longest are resistant and the new folks are a breeze.

I tell new shooters all of the time that the cost of a training class will be far less than all of the ammo you spend perfecting a substandard technique. A two day class can not onlytrain you and put you MILES ahead of "self taught" shooters it also teaches you have to PRACTICE properly which is invaluable.

Truer words were never spoken.

Attending training with Tactical Response is one of the best things that ever happened to me. No ****. The lessons I learned there have been invaluable through all of the training (and three combat deployments) I've been fortunate enough to participate in since. Of primary importance is perspective. It's Mindset, Tactics, Skills, then equipment, not the other way around.

We all walk around in the mode of "I don't know what I don't know" until something breaks us out of it. James is very good at doing that.