With all due respect, someone who never took a class talking about tactical training is very much like a virgin talking about sex. Knowing how to shoot and be safe doing it, knowing how to hit game or clay birds/paper targets or steel, competing in combat shooting games is a good basic preparation in many ways but it does not necessarily translate to knowing how to fight successfully with a gun.
Not even formal military or LE training teaches as much as the best instructors out there in the private sector teach. Every private sector class I've ever had included at least a few students who were active duty military or LEOs, there on their own dime, looking to learn more about how to survive and prevail in a gunfight.
I'd wanted to take Louis Awerbuck's basic shotgun class for over a decade, after being a lifelong shotgunner. Work always got in the way. Finally a few years ago after I retired I finally got to go. I wish I'd been able to get into that class 30 years earlier. I was amazed at how much I learned.
No matter how much you know, you can always learn more. The state of the art is a moving target... it's always changing. The POIs change, what the same instructor knows and teaches from year to year changes. There is ALWAYS more to learn.
fwiw,
lpl
Not even formal military or LE training teaches as much as the best instructors out there in the private sector teach. Every private sector class I've ever had included at least a few students who were active duty military or LEOs, there on their own dime, looking to learn more about how to survive and prevail in a gunfight.
I'd wanted to take Louis Awerbuck's basic shotgun class for over a decade, after being a lifelong shotgunner. Work always got in the way. Finally a few years ago after I retired I finally got to go. I wish I'd been able to get into that class 30 years earlier. I was amazed at how much I learned.
No matter how much you know, you can always learn more. The state of the art is a moving target... it's always changing. The POIs change, what the same instructor knows and teaches from year to year changes. There is ALWAYS more to learn.
fwiw,
lpl