Took it on post on Sunday. It was a packed class....20 students including myself and my wife.
The "legal" portion of the class was drool inducing...but thankfully almost 20 years in the Army had me ready for this kind of torture.
A few observations from the class:
There were a couple people that they bought the gun they brought to class specifically for this class and hadn't fired it prior to coming to the class.
When the instructor was going over the "how to clean your gun" portion of the class...there were many people who even though they had owned them for a couple years they were unfamiliar with or had forgotten how to field strip their weapons.
A couple of people...the ones that had bought their gun just to attend this class had trouble hitting a man sized silhouette at 7 yards...one lady put two round out of two magazines in the black...you need to hit 11 out of 20 to pass the range portion of the test.
One of the "can't hit the target shooters" was being shown by an RSO how to adjust her grip on the S&W .380 she was using...the slide was locked back but that didn't stop her from having her finger wrapped completely around the trigger. It was at that point my wife said "it's time to go".
One guy brought a Hi Point .45 as his qualifying gun.
My wife was the only one that qualified with a wheel gun. The RSO's and the instructor were impressed, the other females there looked worried LOL!
One woman brought a .380 out there I'd never seen before and after researching it I would probably advise her to get rid of it...it's a Davis Arms .380
After I qualified I got to shoot a Glock 27 that was chambered (with a replacement barrel) for .357 Sig. I was impressed. In fact I'm starting to look at one of the X Conversion barrels for my P320 so I can alternate between 9mm and .357 Sig.
My wife and I both commented about how that was the shortest time on the firing range we'd spent since we started shooting and the fewest rounds we'd fired as well.
Right now we both feel like these two in comparison to the rest of the class:
All in all it was a good class...and necessary to get our CCDW permits in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. And despite my stories to the extreme....there were other military types in there that were good shots and had quality weapons on them.
Now the hard part...like Tom Petty sang "The waiting is the hardest part..."
Sometime this week we should be getting via email our certificates showing we graduated the class...then we have to take that to the Sheriff's office and fill out the paperwork and pay $60 each for our permits...then wait up to 60 days to get our permits in the mail. I'm figuring we'll have them by Labor day.
