The worst feedback I ever got at a training course

[Samie]

The instructor stopped the line, walked over to me specifically, and said "you're training yourself to miss." I wanted to argue. Instead I listened...He was describing a flinch I had developed so gradually I couldn't feel it anymore. That one sentence changed my shooting.

 

[Brucer41]

Sounds like it was good constructive feed back.

 

[Alan]

Sometimes the bluntest feedback is exactly what you need

 

[Magus]

Good instructor!
Good student! I had a friend tell me it was easier to train a gun cherry to shoot than someone who has done it all their life because they think they know it already.

 

[Engineer1911]

Forty year old bad habits are tough to break or brake, you know like "Stop doing that."

 

[Brucer41]

Forty year old bad habits are tough to break or brake, you know like "Stop doing that."

I made a bad habit about 60 years ago and wasn't corrected for about ten years later and to this day if I don't conscientiously think about it, I still fall back into doing it. I tend to raise my right elbow high instead of tucking it in when I set up a shot with a rifle. Nobody corrected me because everybody did it. A quick trip to a military range in boot camp changed it and to this day it really hasn't stuck but the lessons were there.

 

[Magus]

Not many people know how to use the strap as a brace in aimed fire, either these days.

 

[Chipz]

That kind of feedback stings at first but tends to stick the longest. An instructor once called out my grip and it fixed a problem I hadn’t even noticed