A Great Start Shooting School's owner explains winter training focuses on indoor dry-fire and classroom work because cold weather below 30-35°F hurts learning. Outdoor range time is kept to 5-10 minutes when conditions allow. Students get homework between classes and can book a concierge indoor-range service for extra practice.
All right, let's talk about imperfect progress. So it is December and you found a Great Start Shooting Schools YouTube site, maybe Facebook. I'm not sure where we are right now, but a couple things. Let's see, do we train in the wintertime? Yes, we train in the wintertime. Do we train in the snow? Yes, we train in the snow. Do we train below 35 degrees? No, try not to, especially if the wind is blowing. So most of the stuff we do in the wintertime is going to be indoors, because let's be real, where you and I are actually going to get the most benefit of gun handling skills when we are brand new is in the classroom. No ammo, just working on skills. The challenge that happens when we go to the range is there's live ammo in our gun around us, people are shooting around us, and we feel the need to go ahead and shoot because that's what we need to do because we're at the range and everything's going bang and therefore we have to make bangs and all of that. However, this is not where we build skills. Do we build some skills at the range? Absolutely, without a doubt. However, getting to create that perfect grip and load that gun smoothly and be confident of how we're holding on to the thing This is where we build our skills, and we can get so many reps when we're in a nice warm classroom versus out on the range freezing to death. So at a Great Start Shooting School in the wintertime, we absolutely spend more time inside than we do outside. However, when we go to the range, here's what happens. We will come to the range, I will set up targets, whatever we happen to be shooting that day. You stay in the nice warm truck we have. Then when it's all set up, I bring you out, we shoot a little bit, 10 minutes give or take, because if the wind is blowing, your hands turn into popsicles, and there's nothing fun about having freezing cold hands on a freezing cold piece of plastic or metal, depending on what kind of gun we're shooting. So It's wintertime, it's cold, and this is how we learn. If you are brand new and you've never shot before, maybe we're gonna go out there for 5 minutes, and because again, I want you to have as good an experience as you can while shooting, but understanding that the true learning is indoors when we're learning how to safely when we're learning how to safely load the magazine into the gun or close our cylinder, depending on what kind of gun we're shooting. So imperfect progress, and then we have the fun of shooting at the end, but just a little bit and not enough to give anyone frostbite. So if it's below 30 degrees, eh, it's not happening. We're doing all indoor. That being said, here's the thing. If you would like to go to an indoor range and you would like to hire me, that is a concierge service. And we can do that, but you're going to be paying for my travel there, you're going to be paying for the range time, and you're going to be traveling— paying for my travel back. So will I do that? Yes, but you have to understand how that would actually work. So there you have it. What do we do at a Great Start Shooting School in the wintertime? We learn a lot. We learn about dry fire practice. We make sure you have homework to do when you are done with class. So between when I see you this time and when I see you next time, you will have skills you've improved upon. And that's kind of it. So I hope that's helpful. And if you have any questions, by all means, give me a call right now. Do not fill out the thing on the website because too many people have filled information out on our website and I don't know where it goes. It disappears into the ether of the website somewhere and I don't know how to fix that. So at this point in time, call, text, email. I would say email's actually probably the best because I can respond to you at any time. Text, I try not to text you at 11 o'clock at night, but sometimes I might because, you know, if I have time to read it and have time to respond to it, I will. And again, since I'm the owner, the instructor, the chief bottle washer, I do the maintenance, I do all of it here. If you call, text, or email and you don't hear from me within 24 to 72 hours, please feel free to just retext or recall or re-email me to get that to the top of the email, because unfortunately I get lots of email on a regular basis. So hope that helps. Hope that clarifies how winter kind of works here at A Great Search and Recall, because yeah, it's an outdoor range. And as long as we can get to it, we're gonna go. So I hope that helps. I hope y'all have a great rest of your day, whatever day it happens to be when you're watching this, and hopefully I will see you soon training on safety, speed, and accuracy. Let's go!
