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The thing you have to remember with any type of action pistol sport, is that it's a game... even IDPA. If you don't get two in the A zone, the paper target isn't going to return fire. I'll have to quote ghawk249 and say that they aren't replacements for actual training/classes. I am now going into my 6th year shooting USPSA and I would not say anything to undermine or demean the sport I love, but the reality is the goals of the two are very different.
However (comma) there are some things these pistol type sports will do for you.
1) Improve your gun handling skills, even under stress. Mind you it isn't the kind of stress similar to another person shooting back at you, but you are going against the timer in a competitive environment.
2) It gets you out of shooting from a static position, in a square range. If you are at a good match, you'll be moving to cover, reloading while moving to cover, shooting on the move, kneeling while shooting, squatting and shooting through ports, running and keeping your gun unholstered and pointed in a safe direction, etc.
3) You'll shoot at targets at varying distances, and you will have to learn to go from far targets to up close targets to mid length targets.
You may want to try IDPA, as the spirit of this sport is geared a little more towards "practical" personal defense. Race gear isn't used in IDPA, and there are more rules that govern how a person is to shoot a stage. In both cases, it's to create an environment that would seem more "realistic"... well not really realistic, but maybe plausible.
I hope your class went well :)
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