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General Categories => Firearms Training and Education => Topic started by: JTH on December 18, 2013, 01:00:01 PM
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Apparently it is my day to post stuff from GunNuts.
Caleb has a good article about "feel-good training" that people who are serious about being good with a gun should read.
Remember back at the NFOA meeting in Grand Island when I asked people if they were any good with their pistols, and then I asked "How do you know?"
And then I made them shoot on a timer in front of everyone?
For those who did that---bearing in mind that a normal person can cover slightly over 20 feet in 1.5 seconds (on average) from a dead stop--how was your time? (As a conversion, every 3 seconds is about 15 yards.)
Do you practice feel-good training? Or are you going to actually try to get good with your firearms? (Whether for competition OR self-defense?)
http://www.gunnuts.net/2013/12/17/feel-good-training/ (http://www.gunnuts.net/2013/12/17/feel-good-training/)
(I find it amusing that he specifically describes one particularly well-known "feel-good" instructor, but doesn't call him by name. Probably because that guy has a lot of connections.)
Best part:
"If you want to feel good about your shooting, train for a year. Then go to a public range. I guarantee that you’ll feel smug about your shooting for at least a week. But after that, go to a class that kicks your ass."
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I hate to admit it Thomas, but you're right again. :)
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I hate to admit it Thomas, but you're right again. :)
Don't worry, it probably won't happen again for awhile. (Well, okay, I'll be right in the thread arguing with Shawn... :) )
Here's an interesting comment from Tam (who writes a GREAT blog about gun stuff, among other things, at http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/ (http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/) )
http://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php?10629-First-Time-I-ve-Seen-This-Tactic-Promoted&p=183360&viewfull=1#post183360 (http://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php?10629-First-Time-I-ve-Seen-This-Tactic-Promoted&p=183360&viewfull=1#post183360)
Part of it: "It can be a cold bucket of ice water in the face to find out that, yes, one does really suck with a pistol, and there are two ways to deal with this: Put in the work to make yourself at least reasonably un-sucky, or go to some guy who'll let you dump a bunch of unsighted rounds into un-scored targets at arm's length and tell you reassuring things about "Yeah, that's how it is on the street." "
Amusingly enough, that post appeared in the p-f.com's forum on the "shooting behind you without turning" thread that Lorimor started over there.
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Tam has a way with words to say the least.
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Tam has a way with words to say the least.
Yep. She actually expanded on her p-f.com post on her blog:
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2013/12/derp-sells-well.html (http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2013/12/derp-sells-well.html)