Training once a year......

[Ks5shooter]

So its that time of year.Every spring wife and I go to a tactical/ccw/defensive pistol class. Its all day and we each shoot 500 rounds during the training.We use our ccw guns to be proficiant.Much different from punching paper that we do on a regular basis as well. We log the hours in case NJ will require hours for ccw renewal.
Anyone else do this? It beats spending money on a ridculously priced dinner.

 

[.38 Special]

Never with my wife. She shot recreationally with me when we were dating, but has become a bit anti-gun since.

It's also been a few years since I last traveled to a "big" class. I've been going to a local place which uses movie screens and Glocks modified for lasers and compressed air for cycling and a hint of recoil. It's a subscription service which allows for three visits per week, and seems to keep me in some kind of condition.

 

[Zahn]

I took an eight hour Defensive Handgun course at a local range a couple of months ago. It was very educational - now I have a better idea of what I don't know. We shot about 400 to 500 rounds per student, which was a class of 8. And you are right, it is very different than punching holes in paper.

Interestingly, the class has motivated me to lose some weight. At one point, we were running and gunning - shoot at a target, get told to move in a direction (forward, reverse, left or right), safety on, holster, move, unholster, safety off, acquire target and shoot. All in less than two seconds. I was huffing and puffing.

Once I meet my goals, I plan to take the class again.

 

[CapnMac]

Makes sense to me.
Particularly making an event of it.

And, of course, training once a year is far better than zero times a year.

 

[halfmoonclip]

Shooting is supposed to be fun...
I keep having this argument with a buddy; he says his dad could always hit what he was looking at, and he never practiced.
Can't convince him that marksmanship is a highly fragile skill, and it goes away quickly without practice.
Once a year is better than never, but once a week would be better.
Moon

 

[WisBorn]

Anyone else do this? It beats spending money on a ridculously priced dinner

Go to Applebee's after the training

 

[Anchorite]

Makes sense to me.
Particularly making an event of it.

And, of course, training once a year is far better than zero times a year.

As we age, wife isn’t as “accommodating” of me as she once was. Could be me….meh.
I have a female friend who is a Federal PO that will take her out to the local FOP lodge so it counts as “girl” time and they both get some trigger time.

 

[dweis]

I wish I could do it, but my wife passed from cancer back in 2015. She was a staunch 2A advocate and she carried every day. We did train together periodically. We went to the range together regularly. I don’t take any courses now. At 80 I am just not interested in that kind of activity anymore, but I do,think it is wonderful when spouses can train together. The more of any activity you do together the closer you become. To those who do it all I can say is keep it up.

 

[CapnMac]

As we age

Ugh, isn't that the truth.
The constant reminders are a bear.
Also, why I don't eat Rice CrispiesI get enough Snap, Crackle, and Crunch just getting out of bed . . .

 

[Ks5shooter]

As we age, wife isn’t as “accommodating” of me as she once was. Could be me….meh.
I have a female friend who is a Federal PO that will take her out to the local FOP lodge so it counts as “girl” time and they both get some trigger time.

. My wife is 20 years younger than me and loves guns hunting etc. We make a great pair. Shooting for two does cost double but she's worth it.

 

[Necessary_Nutrient]

It was WAAAAY easier to get my wife to shoot a .38 Special out of a GP100, a 20" Bushmaster AR15 in 5.56 and a Glock 19 than it was to get her to drive my 04 Stick Shift Honda. She was NOT HAPPY when I tried to get her up to speed on that one in a relatively brief time. She expresses interest in going back to the range and even mentioned wanting to get some practice with a gun that she enjoys shooting so at least I managed one of those two learning experiences well!

I'm sure it was me

 

[.308 Norma]

It was WAAAAY easier to get my wife to shoot a .38 Special out of a GP100, a 20" Bushmaster AR15 in 5.56 and a Glock 19 than it was to get her to drive my 04 Stick Shift Honda. She was NOT HAPPY when I tried to get her up to speed on that one in a relatively brief time.

Ha! I know the feeling very well. My wife (or 52 years come June) had never even touched a gun before she married me. She took to guns, shooting and hunting like the proverbial duck to water though.
On the other hand, my wife learned to drive in vehicles with automatic transmissions, and I was the one who had to teach her how to drive a vehicle with a standard transmission and a clutch before I got sent overseas a couple of months after we got married. It's a wonder that our marriage, as well as the transmission and clutch in our then-new '71 Chevy pickup-truck survived that ordeal!
You know what though? Now my wife prefers standard transmissions and clutches, and she shopped long and hard for her retirement gift to herself a few years ago - a Jeep Wrangler with a 6-speed transmission and a clutch. Go figure.

 

[WisBorn]

I'M NOT GOING TO GET MY WIFE TO DRIVE A STANDARD TRANSMISSION

She does like to shoot my 22lr Victory

And she would rather go to Applebee's than out for an overpriced dinner. She actually prefers a PB & J on a rock with a view.

 

[Pat Riot]

@.308 Norma my experience mirrors your’s in regards to my wife and a stick shift only we’ve been married 42 years, it was a ‘73 Ford F100 and I was going out to sea for 6 months. She was not amused.

Unfortunately it is all I can do to get my wife to shoot with me. She will go and shoot with me about once a year, but that is about it. She likes shooting revolvers when she goes and anything more powerful than a .38 Special is out. My wife is small, but her favorite gun to shoot is my S&W 327 Night Guard N frame. Go figure. She is very accurate with it too. It’s almost a shame but even with the little that she shoots she shoots that 327 more accurately than I do firing single action.

 

[Ks5shooter]

250 of 250 on NJ CCW qualify requirement for wife.Cheshire cat grin!!!!

 

[buck460XVR]

It beats spending money on a ridculously priced dinner.

.....I have to bribe my wife with dinner afterwards to shoot with me.

 

[wcwhitey]

Great idea! Fun and practical!