BDK wrote:+1 on needing some real credentials. I know some very poor shots who are NRA certified instructors.
I have met some folks doing what you describe, who are former military shooting instructors. Not sure if you have such qualifications.
If you can - although the price would have to go up by quite a bit, having a lawyer teach the self-defense portion may be a good idea. Even the talking head shooting shows these days seem to have gotten smarter, and have attorneys make the legal comments.
Yes, technically I am. My resume reads something like "0933 Combat Marksmanship Coach, 0570 Foreign Security Force Advisor, and recipient of the Combat Instructor Ribbon", and so on.
So I'm rather torn on the credentials, and dumping money into the NRA courses if it means that I'm stuck with the NRA-approved curriculum.
Lawyers? Yick. You should have heard the bonehead lawyer [strike]advertising for Texas Law Shield[/strike] [strike]scaring individuals[/strike] doing a short law session prior to my CHL class. Blah, blah, blah, printing is brandishing and illegal, while I'm trying to figure out if the full-size pistol on his hip is a Glock or an M&P, judging by the outline on his shirt.
Weet, I like the idea of the .22lr pistols, but I'd probably go one step further and get .22lr conversion kits for common pistols if I can. Walk, crawl, run, from the SIRT trainer to the .22lr suppressed, to the full-sized pistol. All the while the manual of arms is all the same, sights are still the same, grip is still the same, etc.
skb12172 wrote:A local instructor, in partnership with a gun store, has done this very thing. He is doing very well with a local, radio celebrity doing his commercials on WHAS, our 50,000 watt AM station. I say go for it. If you'd like me to point you in the right direction to see what he is doing, I would be glad to help.
Does he have a website? Imitation is the highest form of flattery.