{"id":11315,"date":"2022-02-13T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T17:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/?p=11315"},"modified":"2022-02-16T10:18:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:18:50","slug":"front-sight-mailbag-gun-instruction-that-is-second-to-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2022\/02\/13\/front-sight-mailbag-gun-instruction-that-is-second-to-none\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Sight Mailbag: Gun Instruction that is Second to None"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Dear Dr. Piazza,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I just attended a 3 Day Defensive Handgun course this past weekend at Front Sight Nevada.\u00a0 I wanted you to know about the exceptional time I had there.\u00a0 The first day was specifically oriented to safety and getting us shooting in a safe and organized manner.\u00a0 We discussed the 4 Universal Firearms Safety Rules, we were then instructed on the safety rules and safe practices on the range, followed by loading and unloading instructions, chamber check, grip, stance and started shooting at targets.\u00a0 As the day progressed we learned more and performed practice drills and the importance of dry practice and how to safely practice at home. The instruction was second to none, the attention to safe weapons handling and the friendly experienced staff really encouraged our group as we progressed.\u00a0 Day 2 was more instruction as we learned about the 3 secrets to accuracy, reloading, types of malfunctions and safe clearance of malfunctions with almost all of it instructed with presentation from the holster.\u00a0 On our final day we performed multiple shooting drills using a timer to induce stress and concluded with a skills assessment which ultimately determined our accuracy and our need for more training and then we did some fun shooting activities that afternoon.\u00a0 I know you have an interest in Firearms, perhaps defensive skills and especially safety related to firearms and wanted to encourage you to attend a class at Front Sight Nevada.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Jim M<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza, I just attended a 3 Day Defensive Handgun course this past weekend at Front Sight Nevada.\u00a0 I wanted you to know about the exceptional time I had there.\u00a0 The first day was specifically oriented to safety and getting us shooting in a safe and organized manner.\u00a0 We discussed the 4 Universal Firearms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11316,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315\/revisions\/11316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}