Taking a class a good way to get up to speed. Picking a class is more difficult.
The reality is there are probably only a few dozen long range schools and full time professional instructors with a heavy bias towards the western half of the country. They are more side hustle and private range hosted courses out there but judging them is hard. The reality is most of the time you have to travel, wait or settle for a local-ish class with compromises.
There is no professional licensure or trade organization like a nurse, a barber or a hunting guide so you have to do some serious due diligence on a shooting instructor or school before you pick one. There is a lot of reputation/chest pounding/marketing/social media involved with the entire firearm training industry that is murky and painful to cut through.
Something like an Sig school is probably overall at least average but I would be a little concerned that they teach heavily skewed towards their equipment and use their terminology versus a more neutral language or equipment setup. Like is it a how to shoot an sig rifle/optic/ammo/ballistic solver or is it applicable to other platforms. With Sig you aren’t worried about a single instructors creditials as a tier 1 door kicker or a national level competition shooter but rather are you buying into an infomercial/timeshare sales pitch.
If you are taking a PRS class just be aware you are going to be learning to shoot a 20 lb 6mm gamer gun off a 5 lb game changer bag sitting on a cattle gate. You will learn less recoil management than with a hunting rifle but you will be able to shoot smaller things with less practice. There are a lot of different long range shooting applications and classes will focus on those. PRS is different from hunt which is different than LARPing in the gear used and demands. Good fundamentals will carry over regardless but certain disciplines emphasize different skills.
The reality is there are probably only a few dozen long range schools and full time professional instructors with a heavy bias towards the western half of the country. They are more side hustle and private range hosted courses out there but judging them is hard. The reality is most of the time you have to travel, wait or settle for a local-ish class with compromises.
There is no professional licensure or trade organization like a nurse, a barber or a hunting guide so you have to do some serious due diligence on a shooting instructor or school before you pick one. There is a lot of reputation/chest pounding/marketing/social media involved with the entire firearm training industry that is murky and painful to cut through.
Something like an Sig school is probably overall at least average but I would be a little concerned that they teach heavily skewed towards their equipment and use their terminology versus a more neutral language or equipment setup. Like is it a how to shoot an sig rifle/optic/ammo/ballistic solver or is it applicable to other platforms. With Sig you aren’t worried about a single instructors creditials as a tier 1 door kicker or a national level competition shooter but rather are you buying into an infomercial/timeshare sales pitch.
If you are taking a PRS class just be aware you are going to be learning to shoot a 20 lb 6mm gamer gun off a 5 lb game changer bag sitting on a cattle gate. You will learn less recoil management than with a hunting rifle but you will be able to shoot smaller things with less practice. There are a lot of different long range shooting applications and classes will focus on those. PRS is different from hunt which is different than LARPing in the gear used and demands. Good fundamentals will carry over regardless but certain disciplines emphasize different skills.
