{"id":385,"date":"2007-07-02T20:44:45","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T03:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ignatiuspiazzafrontsight.com\/2007\/07\/02\/385\/"},"modified":"2008-01-13T13:26:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T20:26:32","slug":"385","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2007\/07\/02\/385\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the wife to the shooting range"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Dear Dr. Piazza,I was at my local shooting range last week and took my wife with the hope of getting her interested in self defense. As I felt it best to have someone other than me give her some training, I asked the Range Safety Officer to go thru the safety talk with her and get her started with the basics.<\/p>\n<p>After she finished shooting, I went thru my usual Front Sight drills&#8211; straight out of the Four Day DefensiveHandgun curriculum. Shoot and Move, Quick Check, Final Check, Scan, etc&#8230; Center of mass, Brain box for failure to stop, etc&#8230; I even had a &#8220;Type 3 Malfunction&#8221;, which I automatically cleared and continued. I finished up the Ragged Hole Drill&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On the drive home, my wife told me that the Range Safety Officer told her, that I was the best self-defense shooter he has seen, and that people always stop what they are doing to watch me when I shoot.<\/p>\n<p>I have to tell you that hearing her say that and seeing the look of pride on her face made me feel pretty darn good!<\/p>\n<p>I owe it all to you Dr. Piazza and your Front Sight program, instructors, and facility.<\/p>\n<p>I want you to know I strive to be an ambassador for Front Sight, telling any interested party all about Front Sight and urging them to watch your TV Series, Front Sight Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Just wanted you to know.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again for what you are doing.<\/p>\n<p>William Landess, MD<br \/>\nGrand Ledge, Michigan<br \/>\nDiamond Elite Member<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank you William for what YOU are doing.It is great students like you who are helping us positively change the image of gun ownership in our lifetimes.<\/p>\n<p>To experience what William Landess experienced and take advantage of all that Front Sight offers, see our Lifetime Memberships at:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.frontsight.com\/handgun-training-memberships.asp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza,I was at my local shooting range last week and took my wife with the hope of getting her interested in self defense. As I felt it best to have someone other than me give her some training, I asked the Range Safety Officer to go thru the safety talk with her and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3,1],"tags":[1127,4218,1791,2142,341,2498,71,2864,2716,4673,2958,2790,2054,4705,9,348,1674,581,2631,187,872,366,1102,107,1670,3694,1625,987,2712,218,1363,185,2035,156,38,1105,3451,4164,2605,154,4049,4050,1037,232,2471,2917,1511,74,4788,2652,346,31,343,2473,2713,4165,339,69,1474,4426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}