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Hi GeezerGas,

You'll be happy to know that there are two husband an wife pairs that regularly attend the Sunday Shooting League at Best Shot Range. One couple consists of a husband who is fairly experienced and his wife who is a newbe and the other consists of an experienced pair. You all would fit right in.

Also Matt Fleming who owns Best Shot Range offers several levels of instruction for new shooters and they rent a wide range of pistols if you want to "try before you buy".

Matt also is a first class CHL instructor and last month qualified me for my CHL renewal. (Plastic arrived last week.) The thing I really like about Best Shot is they always have time for personal attention for all their customers. I've always been pleased with every visit to the range and IMHO they have a lot to offer. Matt has been involved with the Pearland Shooting Club for many many years as board member and supporter and has a wealth of experience he freely shares with people of like interests. It might be worth your while to go by there and visit with Matt to see what he can offer you in the way of guidance in your future endeavours.

For what it's worth, I don't have any connection with Matt or Best Shot Range except for being a very satisfied customer.

All the best, and I hope to see you all some Sunday at the Tactical Shoot.

Gerry

GeezerGas wrote:Another big thumbs up for The Arms Room.

My wife (the closet Socialist of all people ) had an incident a few months ago that convinced her she wanted a handgun for HD. I agreed on the condition that we would BOTH get one and get trained. I'm being the "fleet leader" and checking out locations and weapons. On the advice of this thread, checked out TAR (15 minutes from our home), let them sell me a SIG P229 (on friend's recommendation) and took two hours of instruction. Great experience, good intro to the range. Went back two days later on my own and put about 300 rounds through the paper. I plan to head there about twice a week for awhile.

Range has 15 lanes, RSO was attentive but discreet. Comfortable setup. Recommended for newbies like me. Wife and I are talking about getting CHLs. If so, we'll do it there.

From one "Geezer" to another let me say welcome to the "club" of folks taking responsibility for their own protection!

I would like to encourage you both to get your CHLs ASAP as it makes life so much easier. If you scan the other topics on this board youll find many instances reported where our local law enforcement officers (LEOs) seem to regard CHL holders as "cousins in arms" or at least certified good guys.

You will probably at some point want to go beyond just the basics of how to make holes near the center of paper targets and consider what to do if confronted by several gang bangers intent on separating you and your wallet, car, TV & etc. For this there is probably nothing better than getting involved with the International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA) http://www.idpa.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; There is a chapter that meets at the Arms Room weekly that you might want to look into.

If you would rather start out with something a little less competitive than IDPA you might want to visit the Sunday Shooting League at Best Shot Range in Friendswood. The league is primarily focused on learning safe gun handling in critical defensive situations. It meets every Sunday from 5 to 7 P.M. at Best Shot Range and the cost is $15.00 per person for the two hour session. Each session usually starts with 45 minutes to an hour of live fire gun handling drills in normal light or low light conditions, with and without flashlights. Then an hour to hour and a half is spent shooting one or two scenearios involving multiple targets with obsticals that require quick and accurate target identification and shooter movement through or around the obsticals. The emhasis is not on time but on shot placement and personal safety. Only one person at a time shoots a given scenario while the others observe and learn until their turn. There are usually around ten or twelve people attending on any given Sunday.

The experience level of the participants ranges from LEOs and CHL instructors to brand new gun owners like yourselves. Everybody learns from everyone else guided by our very capable instructor. For more info you can PM our instructor, fm2, on this board.

Gerry