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Carries an XD9mm · 07-29-2007, 03:50 PM

How many hours and what types of training have you had.

How much do you train per year?

jeepinbanditrider · 07-29-2007, 04:06 PM

Only what the Marine Corps has given me as far as "offical" training.

I try to train myself and the wifey to the best of my ability at home in the backyard and inside the house. I simply can't afford what most of the high speed low drag places charge for their training.

hacker15 · 07-29-2007, 04:23 PM

Started in the Air Force, (40 years or so ago), various police departments, training and qualification every 6 months, shoot about twice a month at the local police range.

ElJimmyStrappo · 07-29-2007, 04:29 PM

Police Academy training. Hours? No idea.

Violator22 · 07-29-2007, 05:29 PM

10 Years in the Infantry, still never enough, no such animal as enough training. Les

**DanTheEldest** · 07-29-2007, 05:41 PM

Not enough; I'd like to take some defensive pistol and force-on-force stuff in the near future. Just punching holes in paper doesn't prepare you for the stresses involved in a real SHTF confrontation event.

Cleatis1234 · 07-29-2007, 06:00 PM

The only way to truly prepare for when "tshtf" these days is to spend some time in Iraq or Afganistan. Everything else is nice, will probably help, you are probably better off with it than without it, and will definitely lighten your load (by $800.00-$2,000.00 each trip) but it ain't in the same league as having an entire country you've been assigned to protect want to kill you at the behest of some savages who call themselves religious leaders.

So, if you really want to be prepared for when tshtf, then sign up now for a two year (or longer, if that's your bag) enlistment in the United States Marine Corps. Two years may seem like a long time, but when tshtf, it'll seem like a weekend. It really is the only true way to test your mettle these days. What are you waiting for?

jeepinbanditrider · 07-29-2007, 06:06 PM

Are you a recruiter???

**DanTheEldest** · 07-29-2007, 06:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cleatis1234

So, if you really want to be prepared for when tshtf, then sign up now for a two year (or longer, if that's your bag) enlistment in the United States Marine Corps. Two years may seem like a long time, but when tshtf, it'll seem like a weekend. It really is the only true way to test your mettle these days. What are you waiting for?

I have nothing but respect for service folks (including my brother--active duty Army in Iraq as we speak), but the time when that choice of life would have worked for me and my family is past.

**einheit 13** · 07-29-2007, 06:14 PM

...alot, more proficiant with a rifle than a pistol, for now at least.Prior military service and small unit tactics nut......

07-29-2007, 03:50 PM	#1
Carries an XD9mm XDTalk Newbie Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: MN Posts: 10	What type of Firearms training have you had? How many hours and what types of training have you had. How much do you train per year?

07-29-2007, 04:06 PM	#2
jeepinbanditrider XDTalk 4K Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Mineral Wells, Tx Posts: 4,848	Only what the Marine Corps has given me as far as "offical" training. I try to train myself and the wifey to the best of my ability at home in the backyard and inside the house. I simply can't afford what most of the high speed low drag places charge for their training. __________________ Stuff USPSA-A59201

07-29-2007, 04:23 PM	#3
hacker15 XDTalk 3K Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Upstate, NY Posts: 3,605	Started in the Air Force, (40 years or so ago), various police departments, training and qualification every 6 months, shoot about twice a month at the local police range. __________________ If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. Mark Twain

07-29-2007, 04:29 PM	#4
ElJimmyStrappo XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: SE Idaho Posts: 1,320	Police Academy training. Hours? No idea. __________________ The Carry: Springfield XD 9 Service - Crossbreed Supertuck & DGR with #16 and #22 springs. The Tack Driver: Sako Vixen L461 .222 Rifle with Bushnell 4X Scope A real tack driver! The Fun Gun: Marlin .22 LR with Bushnell 7X Scope The best weapon anyone can have: a brain. "The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental." -John Steinbeck "Beware the man who owns just one gun, he will know how to use it."

07-29-2007, 05:29 PM	#5
Violator22 XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Colorado Springs Posts: 432	10 Years in the Infantry, still never enough, no such animal as enough training. Les __________________ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ! If ya can't fix it with duct tape, it ain't worth fixin'

07-29-2007, 05:41 PM	#6
DanTheEldest XDTalk 5K Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 6,499	Not enough; I'd like to take some defensive pistol and force-on-force stuff in the near future. Just punching holes in paper doesn't prepare you for the stresses involved in a real SHTF confrontation event. __________________ The only things more disturbing than the base ideologies of the new President are the lengths to which his supporters and apologists will go to try to convince themselves and the rest of us that he's not exactly who he says he is. The American abortion industry: helping rid the tired, huddled masses of their inconveniences and mistakes for four decades now. (But it's okay--the unborn aren't actually humans. What they are, we're not sure--but they're definitely not people.)

07-29-2007, 06:00 PM	#7
Cleatis1234 XDTalk Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 44	The only way to truly prepare for when "tshtf" these days is to spend some time in Iraq or Afganistan. Everything else is nice, will probably help, you are probably better off with it than without it, and will definitely lighten your load (by $800.00-$2,000.00 each trip) but it ain't in the same league as having an entire country you've been assigned to protect want to kill you at the behest of some savages who call themselves religious leaders. So, if you really want to be prepared for when tshtf, then sign up now for a two year (or longer, if that's your bag) enlistment in the United States Marine Corps. Two years may seem like a long time, but when tshtf, it'll seem like a weekend. It really is the only true way to test your mettle these days. What are you waiting for?

07-29-2007, 06:06 PM	#8
jeepinbanditrider XDTalk 4K Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Mineral Wells, Tx Posts: 4,848	Are you a recruiter??? __________________ Stuff USPSA-A59201

07-29-2007, 06:14 PM	#10
einheit 13 XDTalk 5K Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Virginia, C.S.A. Posts: 5,856	...alot, more proficiant with a rifle than a pistol, for now at least.Prior military service and small unit tactics nut...... __________________ Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time is enemy action “It is the lack of will power, and not the lack of arms which render us incapable of offering any serious resistance.”

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