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Good question CougFan. I was wondering the same thing. How many rounds have you ran through your pistols? How long have you been shooting?
Now I'm glad I asked CougFan.
It's always nice to know people that have the experience you do. I only have around 20K rounds through my carry gun, and about 40K rounds through my trap gun, all since June of 06. Here's what I use for a trap thrower: http://traprental.com/
Ray Gunter over at Barons Den in Eugene, Or. issued my CC certificate, I also took an advanced weapons class from him, I will call him tomorrow and find out the requirements for an instructors certificate, and post here.
By the way "being an experienced shooter or good shot" is only about 5% of the skills required to become an effective instructor.
Agreed. Those that say "those that can't do teach" have never taught. My degree is in Music Education even though I'm not working in that field. I've known many excellent musicians who were not really good teachers. It takes a certain personality and mindset, loads of patience, and the ability to communicate effectively with people of all different personalities, abilities, and motivations.
Amen!! With teaching firearms you also need the gift of anticipating what a student is going to do before they do it...it may be able to read non-verbal cues...but the best instructors can read a student and see they're about to poke their eye out before they do it.
Funny that you mention this. When I was in High School, a friend of mine asked me if he could go shooting with me some time. I said sure and asked him if he had any experience with firearms. He said "Oh, yeah. I used to go shooting with my Uncle all the time.". We get to the range and I take him thru some basic safety instruction. To make a long story short, when he goes to shoot my High Standard .22 target pistol, I see him put the gun up to his face with the slide and rear sight about 2" away from his right eyeball. I was able to stop him before he pulled the trigger.
I apologize for reviving a severely old thread here but, it seems like the answer was simply get an NRA license. I am a certified DoD firearms instructor. Does this qualify to teach a CHL class in Oregon? Does the NRA have a monopoly on civilian firearms instruction?