hoosierglock40
Plinker
Background
In the last few years I have been working on getting my parents and sister more informed about self defense and firearms. My father is a life-long hunter and taught me about firearms and safety at a very early age and has his LTCH, but I had only seen him carry a handgun a handful of times in my life. My sister and mother have always been around firearms but never showed much interest other than occasionally shooting a round or two while my dad and I sighted in our hunting rifles. After some time all three of them purchased their own handguns and got their LTCH. After some training, my dad now carries everyday
Point Blank Class
My sister and mother wanted and needed additional training so I searched for opportunities for them. On black friday I found a deal at Point Blank Greenwood for a Ladies Only Basic Handgun class for $30. I signed both of them up for it as an early Christmas present. They attended this class last night 12/12. In speaking to them afterwards they informed me that for the first (roughly) hour and half of this class, the instructor was demonstrating with her personal handgun and proceeded to wave the muzzle around while speaking and swept the class on many multiple occasions. She later got out a Blue gun for more demonstrations. After hearing this I was not at all happy! The most important thing that new shooters need to learn is to ALWAYS KEEP THE MUZZLE POINTED IN A SAFE DIRECTION and this was obviously not a good example. PB has a policy that all attendees must leave all live ammo in their cars until it's time to move from the classroom to the range but I see this as no excuse. On top of this, they told me that for the first half hour the instructors child was in the room because she had "complications with her sitter." I understand that this stuff happens sometimes, but overall, from what I have heard thus far, I am not impressed with PB's classes. I was looking for more advanced classes that my father and I could go to together but now I think I will be looking elsewhere.
In the last few years I have been working on getting my parents and sister more informed about self defense and firearms. My father is a life-long hunter and taught me about firearms and safety at a very early age and has his LTCH, but I had only seen him carry a handgun a handful of times in my life. My sister and mother have always been around firearms but never showed much interest other than occasionally shooting a round or two while my dad and I sighted in our hunting rifles. After some time all three of them purchased their own handguns and got their LTCH. After some training, my dad now carries everyday
Point Blank Class
My sister and mother wanted and needed additional training so I searched for opportunities for them. On black friday I found a deal at Point Blank Greenwood for a Ladies Only Basic Handgun class for $30. I signed both of them up for it as an early Christmas present. They attended this class last night 12/12. In speaking to them afterwards they informed me that for the first (roughly) hour and half of this class, the instructor was demonstrating with her personal handgun and proceeded to wave the muzzle around while speaking and swept the class on many multiple occasions. She later got out a Blue gun for more demonstrations. After hearing this I was not at all happy! The most important thing that new shooters need to learn is to ALWAYS KEEP THE MUZZLE POINTED IN A SAFE DIRECTION and this was obviously not a good example. PB has a policy that all attendees must leave all live ammo in their cars until it's time to move from the classroom to the range but I see this as no excuse. On top of this, they told me that for the first half hour the instructors child was in the room because she had "complications with her sitter." I understand that this stuff happens sometimes, but overall, from what I have heard thus far, I am not impressed with PB's classes. I was looking for more advanced classes that my father and I could go to together but now I think I will be looking elsewhere.
