highdesert wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2019 9:17 am
Very interesting featureless, thanks for updating us. Was the class conducted by your sheriff's department or a private company?
It was a private group (not a company, per say, since they don't charge enough to make any money at it--novel concept). The gentleman running the class created it 20 years ago to meet Mendocino County's needs and rents the handgun range at a private gun club. He was a CHP office for 20-30 years prior to that and then a competitor. He's 89 and still sharp and agile! His "assistant" is in his late 50s to early 60s, also a retired CHP office, was in charge of training CHP with firearms. He was also a competitor.
I lucked out with a class size of 9 so there was a lot of individual focus on the range. One lady had a Glock, new out of the box, that she couldn't get to function (consensus was she was limp wristing it so it wouldn't cycle--functioned fine for the instructor). She didn't get it qualified. Another "operator" type dude had a Shield he couldn't shoot fer shit and also didn't qualify with it (though he qualified with some Glock or other). There was another real "operator" with the full battle belt that would have made Batman jealous. Dude could shoot, and wanted everyone to know it! I volunteered to run the "21 foot" test (knife vs draw and shoot). I only made it 20 feet in the time it took him to draw and shoot. I guess the knife lost that one. Never volunteer to be the rabbit in a handgun class.
For others outside of CA, we are required to qualify with each gun we want on the permit, limit is 3.