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bdickens wrote:

smyrna= wrote:With that said, the instructor encouraged the good shooters to NOT score a perfect score. He said that if he ever ended up in court, he could honestly say that the person in question was not a perfect shot. Not sure if that would help in a defense or not but that's sure what he said.

A justified shooting is justified shooting and an unjustified one is unjustified. If anything, having greater skill could only help you in the case of allegations of recklessness.

Once again, I agree wholeheartedly. I'm merely repeating what the guy said.

I would say his class was for the most part what I expected and he only said a couple of things like that that my "waste filter" caught and I had to examine for what it was.

The sad thing is, I called three other places before I committed to a CHL class and based on my conversations with the three others I can assure you that I would have needed hip waders to attend their classes if you catch my drift. There is something about firearms that brings out the bravado and tall tales in some people and I avoid those folks like I avoid some car salemen.

Liberty wrote: Where in the world did he come up with line of malarkey? You can bet that that was one instructor that doesn't visit this forum. The instructor only has to record pass or fail so where would an opposing lawyer find out the score? I can understand where being known to be a lousy shot could get one in trouble with the lawyers.

Am I in trouble for winning amarksman competitions in the past? or scoring expert in the Army? How about a stray shot hitting the wrong person in defencive shooting and no record of ever going to the range.

Being good is not a bad thing.

I have no idea! I'm just repeating what the guy said in class. My thoughts are "a good shoot" is "a good shoot" when it comes to self defense regardless of a person's ability.

KC5AV wrote:Where did you take the class? My instructor said the same thing.

Let's just say we are practically neighbors and chances are we have both been down James Marshall Road.

drw wrote:...When I qualified, I took my sweet time with my shots. In most stretches, I was the last person in the room who was still shooting, and I scored a 250/250! (wanting to brag!)

In the class that I took, we had a few people whose shooting skills were questionable at best. By and large though, most were decent shooters. But, we had a few like drw. In fact, the instructor had to rely on subtracting from 50 shots fired to "find" all the holes in some targets and arrive at a numerical score (one big ragged hole with a few scattered flyers).

With that said, the instructor encouraged the good shooters to NOT score a perfect score. He said that if he ever ended up in court, he could honestly say that the person in question was not a perfect shot. Not sure if that would help in a defense or not but that's sure what he said.