Originally Posted by
JFord
I’ve taken multiple defensive handgun courses. In my beginning course, EVERY student developed basic shooting proficiency. Many of the women and some men had NEVER fired a gun ever. In fact, as predicted by our instructors, many of the complete newbies shot BETTER than the more experienced shooters by the end of the course. This was because they never developed bad habits previously.
If you want to learn to fire a handgun, I believe you should train with one from the start. I don’t really see a benefit of starting with a long gun first unless what you really want is to shoot a long gun.