MatthewVanitas
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Lots of good points brought up so far. Always glad to hear from the composite experience of the board.
I haven't had anbody cry yet, that'd be new to me. I suppose so long as they're pointed downrange, it couldn't hurt.
I do realize that sight alignment should be covered for everybody, just to be on the safe side, but easily 90% of our newbies understand sights, for whatever reason. It's that other 10% that tends to hit target carriers, so I suppose it can't hurt to review it with everybody.
Waitone brings up a great point: there's a bunch of new crap to keep in mind when shooting for the first time. I have an ongoing internal debate as to what is absolutely critical for the first time (4 Rules, etc), and what isn't necessarily going to get anybody killed and can wait until next time (breath control, etc). I have taken to warning about keeping the thumb out from behind the slide; I've never seen anyone actually get smacked by the slide yet, but I'd assume they might act most unsafely if they did get railroad-tracks cut into their paw.
That might be a good subject for another thread: what does a noob asbolutely need to know the first time, and what should be left to cover at some future point.
It's kind of odd how some people are minimially phased by ongoing smallarms fire, despite having zero experience, and other people are horrified. I guess it's not so much the fear as the lack of personal control during the fear that concerns me. When I have in Drivers' Ed, our teacher told of taking a student onto the Interstate for the first time. She was feeling very nervous driving at high speed, and had a close call during a lane-change. Upon nearly hitting another car, her gut reaction was to shriek, let go of the wheel, and cover her eyes. You'd think that trait would have been cleared out of the gene pool a few thousand years back, when gene-carrier shrieked and covered his/her eye when approached by a leopard...
Thanks for all the info thus far.
-MV
I haven't had anbody cry yet, that'd be new to me. I suppose so long as they're pointed downrange, it couldn't hurt.
I do realize that sight alignment should be covered for everybody, just to be on the safe side, but easily 90% of our newbies understand sights, for whatever reason. It's that other 10% that tends to hit target carriers, so I suppose it can't hurt to review it with everybody.
Waitone brings up a great point: there's a bunch of new crap to keep in mind when shooting for the first time. I have an ongoing internal debate as to what is absolutely critical for the first time (4 Rules, etc), and what isn't necessarily going to get anybody killed and can wait until next time (breath control, etc). I have taken to warning about keeping the thumb out from behind the slide; I've never seen anyone actually get smacked by the slide yet, but I'd assume they might act most unsafely if they did get railroad-tracks cut into their paw.
That might be a good subject for another thread: what does a noob asbolutely need to know the first time, and what should be left to cover at some future point.
It's kind of odd how some people are minimially phased by ongoing smallarms fire, despite having zero experience, and other people are horrified. I guess it's not so much the fear as the lack of personal control during the fear that concerns me. When I have in Drivers' Ed, our teacher told of taking a student onto the Interstate for the first time. She was feeling very nervous driving at high speed, and had a close call during a lane-change. Upon nearly hitting another car, her gut reaction was to shriek, let go of the wheel, and cover her eyes. You'd think that trait would have been cleared out of the gene pool a few thousand years back, when gene-carrier shrieked and covered his/her eye when approached by a leopard...
Thanks for all the info thus far.
-MV