fastbolt
Member
An old saying comes to mind when reading some of the proclamations posted by some of the younger, brash and fervent shooting enthusiasts who promote 'operator' mentality nowadays.
You can learn by your own mistakes, or learn by the mistakes of others.
Many of what I like to consider the 'elder statesmen' of firearms training and writing have been able to leaven their thoughts with actual experience, or gleaned critical lessons from the carefully vetted experiences of others over a few decades.
Ignore the wise ones at your own risk. They may not really care if you blaze a trail of your own mistakes because you ignore them and their hard-earned experience.
Granted, I many have some slight bias toward giving them the benefit of the doubt in listening to the long-in-the-tooth trainers, being of such an age myself, and perhaps having earned some occasional bits and pieces of wisdom through the years I served as a firearms trainer, and having worked in LE, myself.
You can learn by your own mistakes, or learn by the mistakes of others.
Many of what I like to consider the 'elder statesmen' of firearms training and writing have been able to leaven their thoughts with actual experience, or gleaned critical lessons from the carefully vetted experiences of others over a few decades.
Ignore the wise ones at your own risk. They may not really care if you blaze a trail of your own mistakes because you ignore them and their hard-earned experience.
Granted, I many have some slight bias toward giving them the benefit of the doubt in listening to the long-in-the-tooth trainers, being of such an age myself, and perhaps having earned some occasional bits and pieces of wisdom through the years I served as a firearms trainer, and having worked in LE, myself.