Never Stop and Look at the Gun Counter

[Bullseye]

700! You sure are talky for an old codger! Keep it up!!

R,
Bullseye

[greener]

I have found that yelling or generally making someone feel extremely uncomfortable while clutching firearms or live ordnance is not a real good healthful practice. Typically that person is already very scared at the situation and yelling at them only makes them more concerned about you than what they're doing at the time. I never understood the "scream at them" mentality and consequently I'd get all the ones who couldn't qualify on the range as remedial trainees. Amazingly, all but a very few made it through the instruction and some even went on to have a strong interest in firearms.

R,
Bullseye

The best leaders/trainers never seem to make a practice of yelling or the in your face stuff. The TAC SGT (MSG Cheek) was not a screamer. You learned very quickly he was not a man you wanted to disappoint, but he was rather quiet. Some of the others had a very different opinion on the conduct of training.

You are right, Bullseye. No amount of screaming, profanity and loud discussion of personal habits will stop a trainee whose first experience with any firearm was a bruised shoulder and bloody nose (M14) from a serious flinch and tightly closed eyes every round thereafter. A long period of dryfire, reminders to hold it properly and quiet instruction will stop that. I gotta admit that I did a bit of yelling when he kept pointing the loaded weapon at me. (I made the mistake of having 3A MTU notice my first 3 sighting rounds were one ragged hole).

[KAZ]

What you are saying is so true. I remember well my boot camp DIs gave instruction to us loud and in our face,but when we got to the rifle range the difference was noticeable. A quite calm all business approach that concentrated on trigger squeeze,breath control,etc. Once the week was over it was back to them trying to weed out problems as only they could do. Regards