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If in the early stages the prospective instructor is patronizing or condescending, move on. One of the truly great officer survival instructors, Col. Robert Lindsey, makes a profound point to his fellow trainers. “We are not God’s gift to our students,” Lindsey says. “Our students are God’s gift to us.”

Nationally known schools may be more expensive, but they are generally worth it. If a cadre of instructors has been in business for 15 or 20 years, it tells you that there aren’t too many dissatisfied customers. Particularly in the time of the Internet, word gets around. The various gun chat rooms on the ‘Net are also a good source of customer feedback. The best, however, is advice from someone you know and can trust who has already been to the school in question.

Once you get there, be a student. Soak up all you can, paying particular attention to the explanation of why the instructor recommends that a certain thing be done a certain way. Litmus test: If he says, “We do it that way because it is The Doctrine,” add more than a grain of salt to whatever you’re being asked to swallow. Try it the instructor’s way; you’re there to learn what he or she has to teach. You wouldn’t throw karate kicks at a judo dojo; don’t shoot from the Isosceles stance if the instructor is asking you to shoot from the Weaver.