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03Lightningrocks wrote:I bet it would be real difficult to fill 10 hours with good information. Most of the time would be spent beating a dead horse or maybe spending allot of quality time exchanging band camp stories. LOL...I personally don't know many fellers i would want to spend 10 hours discussing CHL rules with. It isn't that complicated. Now if you are thinking you can get some combat training while doing CHL, choose carefully...many CHL instructors are only alive because they never actually had to draw a weapon. My instructor thought he was Chuck Norris...I couldn't believe some of the baloney that guy spewed in an effort to look like Tommy Tough Guy. What I am saying is, CHL instructor status does not make a person some kind of expert on all things self defense and legal. Charles could probably spend 10 hours giving you a legal class on CHL, but lawyers are real expensive....I bet more than one would think...ten hours with my business attorney would cost me about 2500 bucks...LOL.

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 that 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.

Yes, a private CHL class will tend to be more expensive. The flipside is you get the instructor's undivided attention for that whole ten hours. That often translates to an extra thirty minutes to two-and-a-half hours with your instructor. The extra time allows us to discuss some items in greater detail or possibly review information that wouldn't be covered in a larger class or one open to the public.