re: Handgun Courses this weekend with Advantage Group UPDATE yall missed out smh

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Just curious, why you are taking that training? $300 seems like a lot for a 2 day course.

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I'm taking an $800 course in the fall with 3 highly experienced instructors, one of who is Larry Vickers. It's a 3 day handgun course.

The reasons the classes are excellent:

1. A regular range will never give you the experience you get at a class. You only do static shooting, at one target, at one distance, standing.

2. Learning to shoot on the move and in uncomfortable positions tests your abilities to adapt. Some of the positions I've had to get in when taking these classes has made me an immensely better shooter.

3. You learn to shoot while having an elevated heart rate. Artificially inducing stress is the only way to simulate what it would be like to draw your gun in a defensive encounter. But nothing will ever be like the real deal. That leads me to the next point...

4. Muscle memory. How do you learn to be extremely proficient at something? Repetition. Doing the same draw stroke hundreds of times and shooting hundreds of rounds does that. Also something as simple as breaking your tunnel vision is an important piece of muscle memory that seems dumb in a class but could save your bacon one day.

5. As Carson said, the regular CC class standards are a joke. Even though I don't think they should be mandatory or exist at all, I thin everyone who chooses to carry a handgun should take a course like this. It gives you more real world experience and makes you a better shooter across the board.

Any other questions?