04-08-2021, 05:39 PM
My own take, is to take every oportunity you have to stretch your exposure. If you shoot 20 rounds a year, and hunt once a year and don't really care - totally cool. But if you invest a notable portion of your discretionary time into shooting sports and the hobby, then you should push your boundaries frequently, to be the best you can be.
Classes like this, are part of that. It's an opportunity and exposure to a type of shooting with a setting and instruction from experts outside your normal access. If it's done in a fun manner, go for it! Would I personally spend $1500 for it? Eh.. maybe not. But I have had access to much lower cost versions or components of much of this, so I don't have to. If you're a regular suburband dude, with no access to long=range shooting, and limited experience in formal sports of 3-gun, High Power, etc; that $1500 investment returned a Hell of a lot of knowledge and exposure, I bet.
I once did a 3-gun night shoot. Cost me $300 to go. I totally got my ass kicked. And learned so much, that I'm really happy I went.
Push your boundaries to be all you can be - and I think it's great you went to this match, and great that you wrote it up. Which is another thing. In my experience as a professional and as a shooter, I find that you don'r really understand and analyze what happened, until you write the report. Only then do you trully analyze the data and digest the results. And so, write-ups like this are great; and often why my own posts can sometimes seem long. Because half the time, the audience for that report was actually me, to complete my analysis and assessment of what happened :o
Thanks again for the post!
Classes like this, are part of that. It's an opportunity and exposure to a type of shooting with a setting and instruction from experts outside your normal access. If it's done in a fun manner, go for it! Would I personally spend $1500 for it? Eh.. maybe not. But I have had access to much lower cost versions or components of much of this, so I don't have to. If you're a regular suburband dude, with no access to long=range shooting, and limited experience in formal sports of 3-gun, High Power, etc; that $1500 investment returned a Hell of a lot of knowledge and exposure, I bet.
I once did a 3-gun night shoot. Cost me $300 to go. I totally got my ass kicked. And learned so much, that I'm really happy I went.
Push your boundaries to be all you can be - and I think it's great you went to this match, and great that you wrote it up. Which is another thing. In my experience as a professional and as a shooter, I find that you don'r really understand and analyze what happened, until you write the report. Only then do you trully analyze the data and digest the results. And so, write-ups like this are great; and often why my own posts can sometimes seem long. Because half the time, the audience for that report was actually me, to complete my analysis and assessment of what happened :o
Thanks again for the post!