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STR8SHTR:
I like the 229R fine. It is accurate, reliable, and feels good in my hand. Accessories and holsters are easy to come by. It does feel unusually snappy in the web of my hand for some reason, possibly relating to the grip design.
Sten:
There are a lot of good trainers out there, to include some on this board. I would say that the best way to locate a good trainer is ususally found by asking the opinion of people who have taken classes from several sources, to include the trainer in question.
Clearly, some institutions have the rep for doing a great job. Most that have been in business for a while are still around for a good reason.
I am not a big fan of sports as a defensive training tool other than the role of learning the mechanics of firearms manipulation and the fact that it has people burning powder regularly. Any game with rules can be unrealistic. If it was a good replication of reality, you would be surprised while in bed, while coming out of the mall, or while walking to your office, and forced to defend youself with what you had on you right then. Anything less than that is a compromise. Maybe they should stop members in public and if they don't have the same gun, holster, and ammunition that they are shooting at the matches, they should be expelled from the club.
Just my ,02, YMMV.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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