I’ve just completed day 1 of a 4 day class with Lawrence (Larry) Mudgett, a man well known to many here. (You can google his accomplishments if you’re unfamiliar.) His teaching operation is called Marksmanship Matters, which might give you insight as to some of the focus of the course content.
I first met Larry in Los Angeles nearly 30 years ago, and he was one of my rangemasters at Gunsite a decade later. I’ve done 250-350-499 at Gunsite, spent considerable time with Cooper, and have had reasonably extensive other training as well as having an NRA pistol and personal protection instructor card. If anyone is wondering why I would take a basic course with that background, besides the obvious opportunities to learn new things implicit in any current training, it’s because first and foremost, I’m nothing but a student.
The first day consists of a detailed classroom session covering everything one can imagine is needed for raw beginners, but as expected, I found numerous valuable nuggets and different point of view on things that I have long “known”. I found some very insightful and frank analyses of the various technical matters around shooting pistols in extremis and also found Larry to be a very commanding and passionate speaker on many different matters from the second amendment to citizen concealed carry. There was absolutely no fluff or boring content for anyone in our circles.
This isn’t a high round count blast-o-matic class. A lot of time is spent on the fundamentals. Day two will consist of nothing but manipulations and dry drills, with live fire scheduled for days three and four.
I will follow up as the class progresses.