Do you think the majority of firearms training classes are realistic at all?
Not having taken the majority of firearms training classes, or knowing what they are teaching, today, I probably shouldn't comment, but from what you say, and what else I've heard, I'd think they aren't.
Most that I've seen or taken rely on putting 500 rounds downrange each day, running drills engaging multiple targets with 3-5 shots each.
I don't consider something like that to be "firearms training" I consider those to be "combat training" and we have, over the past century+ sent literally millions of men into WAR with far, far less intensive handgun training.
Have you taken a training class with a revolver?
No, and I'm not going to start now.
Welcome to our modern world, where no one can know anything about anything, and cannot possibly be competent without having a piece of paper (or plastic) stating they have been trained.
Doesn't matter whether the training is useful, relevant, or even correct. Doesn't matter if the instructor is a genius at what they do, or if they are the kind of moron who teaches "if you don't do what I tell you, you're going to die, die DIE!!!!
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Do remember that any "training" which is run for profit, the instructor(s) are SELLING YOU SOMETHING!
Some of them seem to be selling the idea that you must be a competent combat pistolero (which you will be by paying for, and passing their class) in order to possess the basic skills needed to defend yourself with a firearm.
This is not true, but it is good for their business.
I'm in a different place than most people today. I grew up with firearms safety being part of my life. My father was an NRA Hunter Safety instructor. From the time I was about 6, and big enough to carry a gun or a box of papers to the car, until I was 18 and joined the Army, every fall, I was part of every class he gave.
It was a different era, in many ways. There was no range, no firing at all, it was all classroom instruction, in the evenings, given in the lunchroom of the former Borden creamery building that now served as the garage for the town highway department. The NRA provided the written material, my father provided guns from his personal collection for display and examination, and us kids (my brother and I) got to lug the stuff from the house to the car, from the car to the class, sit through the whole thing until it was over, then reverse the process.
SO, I've attended at least half a dozen Hunter Safety Training classes every year for a dozen years. Now add half a century of real world firearms use, mostly hunting and other recreational sporting uses, and I'm afraid I'm just not going to pay someone younger than I am, with less experience than I have (though possibly more extensive in some specialized areas not really relevant to me) to tell me what I "need" to know.
I don't believe I need to be "trained" on how to be a gunfighter, and I'm not paying anyone to do so.
Will I die, die, DIE?? absolutely, eventually. We all do.