When I was in the police academy (reserves, not regulars), the range officer started off with a barrelless and stockless M10. He said (jokingly) OK, you can see I have this fancy target gun with long barrel and best target sights (fingers in the air in front of gun) and special custom target grips (bare steel grip frame).
At 7 yards he shot 6 shots on a B-27 target (what we would qualify on) and had them all in the 9 ring or better. No barrel, no grip panels.
Then he told us "If I can do that with this, all of you can qualify with what you have!" All of us had a complete gun with a barrel and grips. We all qualified.
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