If you aren't familiar with Range USA it is a chain of ranges/gun shops. They have about 45 locations now.
I finally convinced my wife to get some training in firearms. She had never fired a gun before this class. I am not a good teacher, and trying to teach her just leads to arguments, so I signed us up for this 'Basic Handgun' class.
They started off the course with a spiel about USCCA and how they developed the class with the USCCA involvement.
The class was 4 hours, and it did a deep dive into the operation of each type of handgun. DA/SA, SAO, DAO and revolvers. I think they spent WAY too much time in this area, considering it is supposed to be a introductory course. I could see my wife glazing over just due to the information overload on a topic that had very little interest to her. We were shown renderings of what was happening in each type of handgun.
Then the instructor did a very good job of practical handgun use explanations. How to grip a revolver and semi-auto, shooting stance, sight picture and had each student demonstrate the ability to load and clear a revolver and semi-auto handguns (The guns were disabled by the manufacturer and painted blue for this purpose) while showing safe handling skills.
The range time was very good for my wife, and the instructor individually coached her to firing her first shot.
HOWEVER, I do have a big complaint: they never went into discussing eye and ear protection and how important it is. They spent so much time going over minutiea on pistols that this may have had to be cut to get to the range time. I really felt that was a big shortcoming.
I finally convinced my wife to get some training in firearms. She had never fired a gun before this class. I am not a good teacher, and trying to teach her just leads to arguments, so I signed us up for this 'Basic Handgun' class.
They started off the course with a spiel about USCCA and how they developed the class with the USCCA involvement.
The class was 4 hours, and it did a deep dive into the operation of each type of handgun. DA/SA, SAO, DAO and revolvers. I think they spent WAY too much time in this area, considering it is supposed to be a introductory course. I could see my wife glazing over just due to the information overload on a topic that had very little interest to her. We were shown renderings of what was happening in each type of handgun.
Then the instructor did a very good job of practical handgun use explanations. How to grip a revolver and semi-auto, shooting stance, sight picture and had each student demonstrate the ability to load and clear a revolver and semi-auto handguns (The guns were disabled by the manufacturer and painted blue for this purpose) while showing safe handling skills.
The range time was very good for my wife, and the instructor individually coached her to firing her first shot.
HOWEVER, I do have a big complaint: they never went into discussing eye and ear protection and how important it is. They spent so much time going over minutiea on pistols that this may have had to be cut to get to the range time. I really felt that was a big shortcoming.