True and false.... you can use a real gun, but you need to do it in a safe and controlled manner and a location designed for it.mamabearCali wrote: Never Never Never use a real gun even if you think you have saftey checked the thing 5 times over
Go to a range where you can draw from concealment and practice "real world exercises" - like PSC Range, or others depending on location
remember - a gun is ALWAYS LOADED - even when it isn'tmamabearCali wrote: and he says loudly "it is loaded!"
That's why it is one of the 4-rules of gun safety.
When I take a new person to the range, we spend 1/2 hour or more on safety first. Yes, I am that anal that I just want to be sure it is drilled in them.
I will then take an unloaded weapon, and prove to them, again, and me, again, that is unloaded, and hand it to them, to see how well they understood and practice the 4 rules.
If they treat it as if it is unloaded, without first checking, they fail and we talk about the 4 rules again.
- see previous paragraphmamabearCali wrote:for not checking again that the gun was unloaded--again.