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Originally Posted by MarkCO
I am sure that some of my own personal success comes from spending time on the range squadded with the superstars of the sport. I'm a pretty good student, and I am not sure it works for everyone, but I find more value in working a match as an RO than taking an intro class. I did that with 3Gun, Sporting Clays, Precision Rifle, F-Class and a few others, then entered a major match and hit mid-pack out of the gate.
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I think that makes sense for someone that already has a strong shooting foundation. Even if you aren’t familiar with a specific discipline, your background helps you understand it and the examples you see as an RO illustrate the rules/methods firsthand and cover a variety of situations that would take a lot of time to cover in a classroom.
The reality though is not everyone has a particularly strong foundation in shooting, and personally while I don’t think a range officer has to be the best shooter I wouldn’t a novice being a RO. Introductory courses are often set up with the premise that the people going into them might not have a lot of experience shooting. That’s why you have courses of differing levels and you gear a course in part based on the expectations set forward in the course description.