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​Is advancing your handgun skills necessary after taking a firearm safety course or basic handgun class?

2/15/2020

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Most basic handgun training courses cover safe gun handling and fundamental skills. Students pick up their handguns from a table or learn draw stroke from open carry holsters. Shooting from a static position close to targets is common in these classes. Classes may cover laws pertaining to carrying a concealed handgun and use of force laws. Safety and accuracy, while building confidence are goals at this level. Most gun owners that take a basic skills class do not further their training by taking other classes to enhance skills. Skills that are necessary in a defensive firearm response to an active threat. 

Taking a basic course then target shooting on the range is not enough preparation to successfully survive a deadly force encounter. Unfortunately, most ranges are not going to allow you to work on your conceal carry draw stroke, turn lights down to work on your low light skills, move around obstacles and shoot on the move. Skill building training on use of cover, moving off the X, close encounter shooting and learning life safety skills are attained by completing a training course with an experienced instructor. Feedback from an instructor crucial to improve your skills.

Once you have mastered your foundation skills apply those skills in the context of personal protection. Reacting to a threat that is close to you, a surprise to you with risk of death or serious bodily injury is stressful. Your mind and body will react differently than your target shooting fundamentals and mindset. Do not assume you are “trained” by taking a concealed carry class. These skills are perishable that require regular dry fire or live fire practice.

Most defensive shooting incidents are over in seconds. Muscle memory training enables you to react on autopilot when confronted with a lethal threat. That response is achieved by repetitions in training and survival mindset.
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Is advancing your handgun skills necessary after taking a firearms safety course or a basic handgun class? Yes.
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Allen Holmes
2/15/2020 03:21:09 pm

Just because you can hit a pie plate 7 out of 10 times isn’t enough. Sure a lot is muscle memory from shooting, but not all. Mental state and previous training won’t get you out of trouble if your not prepared to fight the fight. Peter and SRT concepts is a premier place to train in the North East. Let Peter teach you to defend yourself and family. Let Peter teach you to win!

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Shaylee Packer link
6/18/2020 05:47:52 am

As you mentioned, it is important to take gun safety classes, but then stay up to date on the things that you learned. If you are ever in a situation where you are in danger, your body will go off of muscle memory, so you need to make sure you have enough practice to have that memory. My brother wants to take a conceal carry class, I will have to share this article with him.

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