Posted by Elkins45: I have a reliable draw from concealment and the ability to hit vital zone targets with 100% accuracy at reasonable handgun range.
What are your first actions when you see a threat? How quickly can you draw? How quickly can you hit, at the different distances? What do you do after firing?
I practice situational awareness, know the legal restrictions and ramifications of deadly physical force (the KY term for shooting someone) and realize that a concealed weapon should make you LESS bold.
Great!
I reject the notion that I need to give up white bread and listen to a bunch of guys in cargo pants, polo shirts and Oakley sunglasses bloviate in order to carry a gun.
Well, without generalizing about instructors in pejorative terms, one of the reasons that the name of this forum was expanded to include training was to emphasize the importance of the subject.
No, you don't need any training at all to carry a gun. Training comes in when you have to
use the gun--in the gravest extreme.
Most of us who have availed ourselves of good defensive training have learned the difference between shooting at the range and defensive techniques. More importantly, we have had good instructors identity what we were not doing right, tell us how to improve, and told us whether we have in fact improved.
And tell us what and how to practice.
Elsewhere in the forum there is a thread containing my report on the ICE Combat Focus Shooting course. I had taken another good course before.
I have been firing handguns for something on the order of five decades, and I can tell you that I gained a lot from the CFS course.
By the way, what is taught today differs quite a bit from what was fought some decades ago.