Folks are asking me what one thing I learned at LFI about shooting?

I wonder if someday we should have a giant reunion for all of us who made it through LFI. Maybe the whole shibang, party, dancing girls, memory lane, match current to ex-wives.
 
Now that's a thought! Along with our CCW's bring NFA'a, there's just something about Hooters girls and machine guns, oh, and chicken wings, yea, and Wild Turkey for after the cold steel gets put away for the night.;)
 
The "no reloads" thing is if you're one of the rare students who needs to borrow a firearm from us. If it's your gun, reloads are OK. You'll get the most out of it, though, if you duplicate the recoil/muzzle blast/trajectory of what you load with "for real." And, as Threefeathers noted, we do see more malfunctions with reloads than with factory ammo.
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Mas, I've actually had far more success with my own reloads (no failures) than with factory ammo. (some failures) Though I can say that with premium defense ammo, I have had zero failures also. Soon, I'll work up loads that mimic my pet defense ammo, and if not entirely successful, then when the time comes, I'll chuck the reloads in favor of factory fodder. At any rate, I'll bring my carry weapons only. Now, to fly it past the wife.:D

Thanks, Mas
 
Stevie, if you can bring your wife. I have been through mucho military training in my life and thought I was going only for the legal stuff. I was wrong, I learned something every day that changed my shooting. I dry fired before, but peobably only made it useful for rifle. I just finished my daily drills with holds and today did turns. I was in Shotokan Karate for so long that I simply use the same footwork and add the proper hold. To that I added high kneel tonight and took a note from one of Ed Stocks drills in the proper kneeling near the wall of a room. (Since I taught Ed how to do it in the 70's (I had been in Berlin Brigade for 3 years and we developed QCB) I ran the 297th through the drills when we were in Coalville one year.) I was happy to see that Ed further developed the technique.
Mas, I'm looking forward to seeing you and Gail this week.
 
LFI

I'm a graduate of LFI I and LFI II and I've been to LFI Advanced Shooting Skills twice.

The thing I like best about LFI's philosophy is that they show you pretty much all the variations of grip/position/stance, and let you select the options that work the best for you. You get formal training in all of them, which is useful if you do an instruction of others, either formal or informal.

I think everybody who is serious about using a handgun for self defense should attend LFI I (Judicious Use of Deadly Force) if they can.

And I think Mas should come out with a revised/updated version of "In the Gravest Extreme". I bought that book when it first came out in 1980 (when I was a rookie cop) and I still refer to it often.
 
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