Episode 275: It's Easier Than You Think – Why Training Beats the School of Hard Knocks

So we just finished up a long range shooting school.

And in this class, we had some people very new to the art, as well as some of those that have experience.

And I want to talk about the subject.

It's easier than you think.

And diving into this from a couple of different perspectives of how this applies, not just to life in general, but to the shooting world and the building world as well.

When we get into long-range shooting, and a great example would be a customer.

We just had come through the class.

We met him at the Great American Outdoor Show.

He found us through the podcast, and he signed up and just finished our three-day long-range shooting school.

Getting ready to go on a hunt, new to the long-range stuff, never shot beyond 300 yards, just totally blank slate as far as eager to learn, wanting to learn, and get all of his fundamentals in order for a hunt that's coming up here later this fall.

On day two of the class, in the morning of day three, we were talking a little bit.

And he was saying about, in the class itself, we cover a lot of subjects.

And the first day is a ton of fundamentals.

And for newer shooters, it's pretty amazing to watch how fast they go off to the races, just following instructions.

And on day three, he had asked me, he said, I sort of expected you to be correcting me a lot more and giving me all of these things that I'm doing wrong.

And I said to him, I said, you know, if I see stuff that's wrong with shooters or things that they're doing wrong, absolutely correct it.

But what's nice is if you follow the system and you take the class and you follow the instructions and you do the things properly, there's not much to correct.

It's practicing.

And what's really cool with a lot of students, I mean, he was running right out to a thousand yards on day two and he's doing fantastic.

And it's like, there's nothing here other than practicing from here on out.

You're doing great.

And for me to, I always say, be careful in criticizing or correcting just for the sake of correcting.

So either micromanaging or micro pointing out, or for new instructors, the biggest problem is, is they feel like they're not doing the job unless you're telling somebody something that they're doing wrong and sort of micro picking.

And at that point, it's just distracting to the customers and it sort of hurts them and their ability to continue to grow and learn.

But for me, the big thing is, is watching people go when they've taken a class with no experience, they fall right into the groove of doing things so correctly.