Browsing articles from "June, 2009"
Jun
29

NRA Basic Pistol Instructor Certification

By chltx  //  Course Material, General, NRA  //  No Comments

I had a busy weekend. I made the trip up to ShootSafe Academy to take the 20-hour instructor’s course to qualify to teach the NRA Basic Pistol course. The whole thing was pretty exhausting, but worth the effort.

I learned a lot more than I thought I would. While I will be getting my instructor’s credentials in a few weeks, I still have some major effort in getting my presentations ready. But I can already incorporate some of the useful information I got from Bill and Dan in my regular CHL courses.

Meanwhile, I have identified some other courses that I would definitely like to qualify on, such as the “Refuse to be a Victim” course. ShootSafe hasn’t scheduled the instructor’s course for that yet, so it’s likely to be a few months before I get to take that one.

Jun
1

CPR and First Aid

By chltx  //  Uncategorized  //  No Comments

I now have an up-to-date CPR card good for two years; I took the CPR refresher course yesterday, and also took the basic first aid course. I’m thinking of becoming an instructor for that, but there is a substantial cost-of-entry barrier, so I’ll just think about it for a while.

The cost of getting CPR training is not very much, and the time to do the training, along with basic first aid, is about 3.5 to 4 hours. It’s a good skill to have — especially if you are ever involved in a deadly force incident. Stopping to render aid to the low-life that you just stopped from murdering you makes it a lot harder to make you look like a villain on the witness stand. Always remember that carrying a gun is NOT politically correct, and about half of the population does not believe that you really have the right to own a gun, much less carry one.

And there is always the possibility that you might be able to help somebody you care about, too.