Off hand, I'd say the main differences are that you're probably not going to standing in one spot, under zero stress, casually taking your time. You'll probably be highly stressed and sweating, there's a decent chance you'll already have been fighting with fists, feet and teeth before you even get the gun out, you may have other people who you don't want to hit who are within inches of the bad guy, you may have to get the gun out while your other hand is busy beating off your attacker or carrying your kid or...., you may have to use your support hand, and on and on. It would seem that the differences would be fairly obvious, even to the casual observer who's willing to think about it a bit. It's like the difference between driving a car with an automatic tranny at 45 MPH in a straight line down a paved road and driving in a rally race.I'd assume so. This isn't a loaded question... I'm asking because I want to know your opinion. What, in your opinion and with regards to situations civilians are likely to encounter at distances they are likely to be able to legally defend themselves at, are the main differences?
You've got it backwards, which I suppose makes some sense since you said that you'd never attended any classes. The exceptions are the classes that cost thousands. A typical cost for a good firearms training class is $150-$200 per day.We repeatedly say this because more often than not, it does cost that much, but like you said, I'm sure there are exceptions to every rule somewhere out there.
Obviously there are additional costs beyond just the class although they seem to be often blown out of proportion in this thread. Why include food in a class cost, for example? Would you not still be eating if you didn't go to the class? Anyway, like I've said multiple times in this thread, people can very often afford the things that are important to them. What annoys me is when I hear gun owners say that the reason they don't get professional training is because they can't "afford" it when what they actually mean is that they have other, non-essential things that they'd rather spend the money on.Plus, we're not just including the cost of the class itself in this figure, but also cost of ammo, travel, room and board, equipment, etc.
What surroundings? You said you've never been to a class. Are you going off of what you see on Youtube?That's my personal experience from my surroundings, and isn't meant to be offensive to those who have taken training or who are trainers..
Edit: Re read your post. I see you mentioned talking to some trainers in your area. Guess I'd have to know what it was exactly that you didn't like in order to comment. There are certainly poor trainers out there.
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