Thank you Gentlemen. Glad to hear you guys enjoyed the class. It was great working with you.
As seen in the chat box, and by the 11pm text from a CR member asking to validate a shot that was made in the class, I'll talk about a couple things from class. Yesterday's class was a great example of why I only teach small classes. Ideally, I like 6-10 people in class, but I will still run a 2 person class. Both shooters yesterday demonstrated great fundamentals of marksmanship, right from the beginning. After completing the required qualification, which left us a good bit of time for actual training. Many CCW classes simply have you shoot 100 rounds and do not care if you hit the target or not. We are required to have 4 hours of range time, and that we did. We moved on to target transitions, where I call their shot and they engage it. I then added mag changes to the drill and reducing the size of the target from 6" targets to 2" targets. Aim small, miss small. You are not going to hit bulls eyes every time. But, to see how close you actually are to the bulls eye, to include several bulls eyes, well that just made it very fun for both shooters. As they demonstrated more and more ability, I added more to the challenges. The risk level did increase, to include a challenge of having them do pushups to get a little winded, and then engage the target. To me, CCW is not a stationary 20' encounter on bright sunny day, with you being behind cover, and only one threat. Getting your breathing right and putting rounds on target were a huge eye opener for both shooters.
As our range time was wrapping up, I offered to add some distance pistol shooting. As argued in the CB, "why do this in a CCW class"? A 25'-30' pistol shot is a common good shot to be on target. Hell, to even hit the target is good. For a pistol; for almost every CC scenario, anything over 30' and you should be thinking "how do I get out of this"? I do distance shots to prove something very simple. I drill slow, perfected fundamentals for every shot and build from there. Once you apply the proper shooting technique, you can put rounds on target. They shot at 30 meters, 50 meters and then a little over 80 meters. Are you going to hit steal every time? No. However; when you hit 7 out of 10 at 50 meters, having never shoot that distance before with a pistol, which is a great confidence builder. Then to move even further back; and still be able to hit the target, that's just great to enforce proper shooting technique. When I can spend 15 minutes with shooters and give them that experience, that is what makes the class different and more enjoyable than many of the other classes offered out there.
Again, thanks for the kind words guys.