Sherlockanubis
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I am an employee of a new FFL. I have the usual NRA pistol rifle and crso certs. I have taken 2 no fail courses and my average b-8 is a 87. I have 3 years experience teaching entry level/lower level intermediate shooters at a NSSF 5 star range with others that were much more experienced than I mentoring me. Right off the bat I want to make clear that I will not teach past OWB holster draw/mag change period. It is out of my lane and I have at this point not enough experience or skill at teaching past this point. I can do all these things but there are people more experienced and skilled at teaching them at this point in my life / career.
I am doing this to help my shop as doing it themselves would cost too much for them at this point. I would be doing privates for the never/newer shooters as well as group lessons in that same experience level.
I am looking for things I would need and things to know as a single person looking into starting a business teaching firearms education from those who either have done it/are doing it. Who to go to for insurance, how much to get, pitfalls etc.
I am not looking at this point in time to make big bucks off this. As I said this is to help my shop and break even/cover training ammo and any money I make will go back into taking training classes to become a better and more experienced instructor. Also to be clear I am not going to teach past OWB holster draw mag change/ self diagnostic shooting. I am NOT teaching gunfighters nor do i have dreams of that. I want to teach people how to be safe and responsible with firearms introduce them to new people so they can see how to have fun/ be safe and hopefully inspire them to become more skilled. Once they are at the limit of what I am willing to teach I will pass them off to others in the P&S/ vetted instructors in our community.
Everything I ask them to do would be demo'ed using the tell show do method. I do have classes and experience in adult and young adult learning theory and have over 50 hours of successful private lesson firearms instruction.
A typical lesson would look like
-Intro/ bio/what they are hear to learn.
-Safety brief as it applies to the range and in and outside the home and the differences/establish learning outcomes
-Different firearm action types and the difference between fmj/jhp.
-The fundamentals with a dummy gun and then practice loading and unloading/ safety check until proficient.
-Dry fire fundamentals and an explanation of accuracy vs speed and why accuracy is important either in a defensive context or sport depending on why they are there.
-Dry fire with an unloaded gun until proficient and comfortable.
Range time on a b-8 with a 22 at 3 yards all inside/touching xring.
Pretty much following Tatianas new shooter process from most recent modcast.
Rinse and repeat with a competition length/full size 9.
Make sure they leave feeling successful, happy and most importantly with a understanding of safety and better understanding of how firearms work and to be ambassadors of my shop and the greater firearms community as a whole.
Thank you
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I am doing this to help my shop as doing it themselves would cost too much for them at this point. I would be doing privates for the never/newer shooters as well as group lessons in that same experience level.
I am looking for things I would need and things to know as a single person looking into starting a business teaching firearms education from those who either have done it/are doing it. Who to go to for insurance, how much to get, pitfalls etc.
I am not looking at this point in time to make big bucks off this. As I said this is to help my shop and break even/cover training ammo and any money I make will go back into taking training classes to become a better and more experienced instructor. Also to be clear I am not going to teach past OWB holster draw mag change/ self diagnostic shooting. I am NOT teaching gunfighters nor do i have dreams of that. I want to teach people how to be safe and responsible with firearms introduce them to new people so they can see how to have fun/ be safe and hopefully inspire them to become more skilled. Once they are at the limit of what I am willing to teach I will pass them off to others in the P&S/ vetted instructors in our community.
Everything I ask them to do would be demo'ed using the tell show do method. I do have classes and experience in adult and young adult learning theory and have over 50 hours of successful private lesson firearms instruction.
A typical lesson would look like
-Intro/ bio/what they are hear to learn.
-Safety brief as it applies to the range and in and outside the home and the differences/establish learning outcomes
-Different firearm action types and the difference between fmj/jhp.
-The fundamentals with a dummy gun and then practice loading and unloading/ safety check until proficient.
-Dry fire fundamentals and an explanation of accuracy vs speed and why accuracy is important either in a defensive context or sport depending on why they are there.
-Dry fire with an unloaded gun until proficient and comfortable.
Range time on a b-8 with a 22 at 3 yards all inside/touching xring.
Pretty much following Tatianas new shooter process from most recent modcast.
Rinse and repeat with a competition length/full size 9.
Make sure they leave feeling successful, happy and most importantly with a understanding of safety and better understanding of how firearms work and to be ambassadors of my shop and the greater firearms community as a whole.
Thank you
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