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Formal Training Begins

I truly wish that shooting schools like the many available today existed when I was in my formative years. It would have saved me a lot of wasted time learning as I went. Unfortunately, the boom in concealed carry permits has drawn out of the woodwork a swarm of get-rich-quick artists who smelled a fast buck, took a few courses, and declared themselves professional instructors. As Jeff Cooper once commented on the matter, “There are a great many people teaching things they haven’t learned yet.”

Using a dummy gun, this role-player takes another student hostage in live-action scenario training at LFI.

When you inquire for particulars at a shooting school, request a resume of the person who will be the chief instructor at your course. If he gets indignant and refuses, he’s told you all you need to know. Keep looking. Once you get the resume, do what you would do with any other prospective employee’s resume, and check it out to make sure he’s been where he says he’s been, and has done what he says he’s done. (You’re hiring him to perform a service for you, right? Of course, he’s a prospective employee.)