Not to try and discourage you, but I don’t know that the typical self-defense centered class is going to help you all that much if your goal is to improve at USPSA.
I imagine that the way you manage ammo is the biggest difference between self defense and shooting games. In self defense situations you are willing to waste ammo in order to always have a full or nearly full mag in the gun. In shooting games isn't it more common to shoot all the ammo and then reload rapidly. In other words reloading speed is important in shooting games, but not because someone is likely to be shooting at you like in self defense. In SD you don't expect to have to shoot all your ammo, but you want to be full at all times. In games you do expect to shoot everything and then refill. As always, correct me if I'm wrong.
Why is there a need and should there be a desire for everyone interested in shooting to become knowledgeable and have some skill with revolvers? Do you assume we will all find ourselves in a shootout with only a stray revolver lying nearby to get us out of the jam? I will take my chances with that possibility. As far as I am concerned revolvers are the most unwieldy and annoying of firearms. I will let Jerry M. have my share and good riddance. There, now my generalization is even more absurd than yours was.
You might be right, and if that's the case, then this is a moot discussion. I can draw, aim, shoot, and move with any gun. I understand the difference between cover and concealment and how to use them.
From what I've seen thus far, it's really not that much money.
There are no local classes in my area, especially for revolver. Everything in my areas seem to be, as one poster stated earlier, "militaristic commando" type training. I did that at Ft. Jackson in '94. Thankfully, my "warfighting" days are behind me. (And even more thankfully, I never had to fight a war.)
Yeah, that was my point. In SD training, they teach you to align the mag with your index finger while feeling for the top round and tilt it into the mag well. That is so you don’t mess up, but also so in a pinch you could do it without looking. The ideal situation is to have the rising full mag and falling discarded one pass each other in the air. You should be lifting the fresh one right past the falling discarded one. We had one guy who was very, very fast at all the manipulations. He didn’t lose a single point on any of the loading, reloading, or clearing malfunctions drills due to speed.
I feel like you are confusing desirable with necesssary. Of course it is desirable, but tipoc was suggesting an importance to the exercise that to me bordered on necessity. BITD learning Latin and Greek was cute, but it didn’t truly accomplish anything. It just filled up the days of folks who were too wealthy to have anything else they had to do. Kind of like keeping them out of trouble while the folks who had to work for a living took care of business and politics.
I disagree on that one. The point of the 2A is to have the citizens own and train with the same weapons and tactics as the military.
