Wife and I are looking at heading to Lakeview Oregon next Spring to take Clint Smith's DH1 class at Thunder Ranch. Anyone been before? It seems like a lot of fun from the videos.
Yes, indeed; please do.Looks like a lot of fun and knowledgeable instructors but like anything firearms related if not feed constantly and often it’s a depreciating skill. For that kind of scratch they should offer discounts for maintenance follow on training. I’m sure you’ll learn a great deal from the course of fire. Let us know how it goes.
Well I'm blessed to have a range that we use a mile from our house. We train around twice a week weather permitting. This morning we setup a mock grocery store checkout line and practiced moving to achieve safe firing angles on bad guy targets. These were interspersed with innocents so that one had to move from spot to spot to create safe shooting angles. My wife and I (also NRA instructor) fired off about 300 rounds each working on different solutions to problems. We also worked on some shoot no shoot stuff using training weapons. Of course a few obligatory dummy rounds in the courses of fire to check malfunction clearance skills. Great to have a wife who in a bad situation is my back up not someone I have to think about her being just a victim.Looks like a lot of fun and knowledgeable instructors but like anything firearms related if not feed constantly and often it’s a depreciating skill. For that kind of scratch they should offer discounts for maintenance follow on training. I’m sure you’ll learn a great deal from the course of fire. Let us know how it goes.
Well I'm blessed to have a range that we use a mile from our house. We train around twice a week weather permitting. This morning we setup a mock grocery store checkout line and practiced moving to achieve safe firing angles on bad guy targets. These were interspersed with innocents so that one had to move from spot to spot to create safe shooting angles. My wife and I (also NRA instructor) fired off about 300 rounds each working on different solutions to problems. We also worked on some shoot no shoot stuff using training weapons. Of course a few obligatory dummy rounds in the courses of fire to check malfunction clearance skills. Great to have a wife who in a bad situation is my back up not someone I have to think about her being just a victim.
We ran rounds through several different platforms working on dissimilar weapon usage too. Had a couple 1911's , Sig P series decockers, smith striker fired guns and revolvers always good to keep in tune on platforms one might encounter in a worst case scenario.
Yeah I get a lot of folks telling me they got their training in concealed carry I just cringe inwardly. Heck i got a video yesterday from a school offering a course on pocket gun application. In the video the student draws from his right pocket while seated in a vehicle. Then crosses the muzzle across his right leg and proceeds to engage the targets. Heck most police officers do not have the training they should have but budgets don't allow for itI just completed a basic pistol instruction for 33 ladies at a Women in the Outdoors event yesterday.
90 % had their concealed carry license.
99% had no clue how to have a proper grip on the pistol or how to accurately shoot.
Grandpa’s and Hubbies ’ instruction behind the barn doesn’t get it.
Some couldn’t hit the target at 7 yards missing by a foot or more.
Only had them for 45 minutes per squad, but felt they learned something with their groups getting
Smaller and they learned about clips Vs magazines and actually improved their
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