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G.C.Montgomery wrote: Is that your opinon as an instructor or just someone who felt tortured as you sat through the class to get your ticket punched at the end of the day? I agree that having just going through the 40hr class with DPS does not make one an expert on anything. There certainly were some world class idiots in my 2005 instructors' class and renewals have certainly been no less entertaining. However, I don't think it's all the difficult for a competent instructor to fill 10 hours with good information without beating a dead horse or telling war stories.

I am sure that if you ask any competent CHL instructor on this board, we all know what's mandated by the state but feel there at least one more piece of information worthy of being shoehorned into the lesson plan if one can manage the time to get it in. Those pieces often become the "extra credit" stuff we can add in if a class moves along faster than expected. I have done about two dozen private classes when I had the time and I can assure you, the private students got one heck of a lot more information out of me than those who sat through the all day Saturday classes I did at Top Gun or Memorial Shooting Center. But those are my experiences and opinions after teaching CHL, handgun, rifle and shotgun classes in commercial and private settings for four years.