Qualification

[oink]

Did my HR 218 qualification today. I was actually about a month expired. Of course I still had my FL CCW so I was still legal. It was a beautiful day, sunny with a mild breeze at about 68 degrees. Perfect really.

There were several other old guys qualifying with me in about 3 different qualification runs that I'm aware of. Maybe 15 guys altogether. Here you have to qualify with the type you're going to carry, semi-auto or revolver or both if you want to be able to carry either. In my run there were just two of us that qualified with both. The others just shot semi-autos.

I shot my new Hellcat with red dot for my semi-auto. I'm embarrassed to say was a bit of a mess. An early morning shoot after a lack of sleep due to babysitting a 18 month old grandchild that chose to not sleep during the night. I shot my new Hellcat with optic that I haven't really shot other than zeroing the optic. I forgot to take both the optic cover off and the safety. Duh.... Well it's an easy qualification but I did throw 3 of the 40 out. I passed but I wasn't proud of it. I really do need to practice more with the red dots. I'm distracted by the wavering red dot where wavering irons don't distract.

Well next just us two wheel gunners qualified again. I used my 4" 686-4 I bought just a year or two ago to replace the 4" 686 no dash I traded off years ago after it got too salty while on the boats. I'm still a wheel gunner at heart and this is a great shooting gun that's a joy to shoot. I think it shoots better than my old one did. It sure looks better other than the factory goodyears. I had a very good pattern EXCEPT for one flier off in the white. I have no idea where that came from. It must have been the other guy Oh well, good for another year. The bad news is I used some really old dirty reloads in the 686. That won't be fun.

It sure was a nice day for shooting. Some of the Sunshine State's best.

 

[jeffrefrig]

I'm no LEO, so I'm not familiar to different Dept.'s rules. Are you allowed to use reloads in your back up firearm or use what they give you?

 

[jimmyj]

Qualifications

KISS- Revolver
1. Draw
2. Point/Aim
3. Pull/Squeeze Trigger

BANG

 

[oink]

I'm no LEO, so I'm not familiar to different Dept.'s rules. Are you allowed to use reloads in your back up firearm or use what they give you?

I'm not sure what the rules are for active LEOs. I expect it's issued ammo only for both. I know the issued and now required duty weapon for Road Patrol a 9mm Glock, I think 17 but could be a 19. What the rules are for off duty or back up I just don't know.

I'm part of the retired crowd and I suspect they don't really want any involvement in what we carry or what we carry in it as long as we've qualified with the type of gun and the ammo punched holes in the paper. Nobody asked or looked at the ammo I was using. I'm sure I could have qualified with my Glock model 40 with my KTM 40 S&W barrel in it and nobody would have cared or noticed.

I don't think I'd carry any ammo that wasn't factory or any factory ammo with any kind of evil sounding name put on the box by their marketing Dept. I like lighter, faster, quickly expanding bullets as I'm more concerned about over penetration than under penetration. I haven't seen any bears around here.

 

[Baxter6551]

We are doing our annual HR218 now. For years they told us we had to qualify with only the one gun we were going to carry (not what the law says) but this year said shoot the type you are going to carry - semi auto or revolver. I usually carry the gun I qualify with going out of state but I do like to switch up.