Originally Posted by
country1
There are factors that I do not know, but the above paragraph really concerns me. If I was that instructor, I would want to see the firearm and check it out personally. I really can't comment how he is as an instructor or friend, but what you posted raises questions to me. Based on what you posted, I would start looking for someone else regarding training and advice.
Same song I've been playing for the last year or so.
I'm not as active as an instructor anymore as I used to be, but I do take the "Red Hat Society" (my mother in law and half a dozen of her friends) to the range, so I hear time after time about how great of a guy this instructor/seller/friend is. Ex-cop who offers CCW classes at the lowest price in town ($75 vs $90 everywhere else), and sells guns out of his house for as cheap as he can (basically $50 over davidson's website retail price-Not MSRP-plus tax).
Nice guy or not, this isn't the first time it has become apparent that his knowledge-base is limited. I had worked with my MIL for 6mos before she went to one of his classes, and had her shooting her revolver pretty well. Then when she went to his class, he "corrected her form" and taught her that she should cock the hammer on her revolver with her right thumb (firing right handed), rather than using the off-handed thumb as I had instructed her. He also taught her the SERIOUSLY old-school grip style of holding the off-hand palm up and setting the grip on the palm (pistol in right hand, setting the end of the grip in the middle of the left palm), and using basically a weaver off-set stance, rather than the more amatuer-friendly isoceles style I had taught her.
I spent the next 3mos convincing her that nobody shoots that way anymore, and that her terrible grip technique was why her groups went from 3-4" to 3-4 FEET. Finally we got her shooting isoceles again and getting back on target, then she started seeing these issues with F2F, and "Jimbo" tells her it's the %&@# firing pin...
Not a fan...