I try to take a CCW class every year. This last year I was doing some SAS near where my brother lives and he expressed interest in taking a class with me. I check online and there was a class last week. Typically I carry a 1911 but because of the cowboy shooting I was doing decided to only bring my cowboy guns.
I get to the class and we sit and listen for a while and it is clear the teacher favors auto (for good reason) and he talked only for a short time on revolvers in general all of which was double action. We go to lunch and I go to talk to the teacher. I express privately that the only gun I have at this class is a single action revolver. He was polite but he asked me to leave the class and offered a refund. He expressed that he did not feel a single action revolver was an adiquite weapon for self defence.
I was a bit offended because I practice a great deal with my Uberti and I know what I am capable of with it. I feel that I am probably better with the single action that many people in that same class are with there autos.
Any way I took the refund and left with out saying much more. My brother stayed in the class and said that after lunch the teacher talked for about 30 min on how a single action revolver should never be considered for self defence.
The teacher was polite and seemed very informed about autos but I feel he was out of line by not being willing to accept me and my gun in the class. What if I had been a new shooter that only had the one gun. Should I not be allowed to carry it for defence?
I get to the class and we sit and listen for a while and it is clear the teacher favors auto (for good reason) and he talked only for a short time on revolvers in general all of which was double action. We go to lunch and I go to talk to the teacher. I express privately that the only gun I have at this class is a single action revolver. He was polite but he asked me to leave the class and offered a refund. He expressed that he did not feel a single action revolver was an adiquite weapon for self defence.
I was a bit offended because I practice a great deal with my Uberti and I know what I am capable of with it. I feel that I am probably better with the single action that many people in that same class are with there autos.
Any way I took the refund and left with out saying much more. My brother stayed in the class and said that after lunch the teacher talked for about 30 min on how a single action revolver should never be considered for self defence.
The teacher was polite and seemed very informed about autos but I feel he was out of line by not being willing to accept me and my gun in the class. What if I had been a new shooter that only had the one gun. Should I not be allowed to carry it for defence?