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RottenApple wrote:

benenglishtx wrote:Are you sure this guy is a certified NRA training counselor? Something seems fishy if he is offering a stand-alone BIT class (which is not, per my TC, offered by the NRA).

The instructor is offering, per the NRA "Find a Course" page, the pistol course the next day. If you look up the pistol course, there's a comment attached that BIT is a prerequisite and is being offered the previous day.

I think this will just turn out to be a minor miscommunication. I contacted them and asked for the BIT. They signed me up for the BIT. Unfortunately, I was sufficiently ignorant that I didn't also ask to be put into the pistol course the next day.

I'll re-contact them and ask for placement in the pistol course, too. I think that will solve the problem.

Thanks.

Keith B wrote:Can you provide a link to the BIT course?

Actually, no.

The instructor has no web site and BIT courses aren't listed separately on the NRA Instructors "Find a Course" page. However, after doing some digging, I found on the NRA page that the same instructor is offering the "NRA Instructor Pistol Shooting Course" the very next day at the same location.

I find it strange that when I heard about and requested information on the BIT offering, the instructor didn't bother to mention that the pistol course was being offered the next day and could be conveniently bundled. I think I'll do that but I still get a weird vibe. I hope this was just some minor miscommunication.

Charles L. Cotton wrote:...BIT isn't a stand-alone class.

Interesting. I'm signed up to take the BIT in April and it has been stressed to me that this class is stand-alone, just the BIT, 6 clock hours long.

Is that not supposed to be possible? Am I in danger of being forced to re-take BIT in the future when I try to sign up for Basic Pistol?

TIA for any insight.