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God Damn, just reading your reply sounds like a awful experience. I had a great fucking time man for the most part. The first day was six hours of class room shit, basic stuff, but did learn a lot about what you can and can not do in the state of California. Had a great What Not To Do video of a guy who blows his left thumb off when bringing his firearm out of his holster.
The second day was all shooting. We all had to qualify with hitting our targets at 7yds and 15yds. Each target had to have 15 shoots on target, with no fewer than 12 in the black. For each firearm you wanted to place on your license you had to qualify with, which meant my CZ 97B and CZ 75 PCR had to be tested at 7 & 15 yards. After we passed that we did drills on shooting from shooting behind barriers "cutting the pie", practiced shooting when we had a FTF/FTE, hostage situations where there were targets that hostages and you could not hit the hostage, call out shots on certain targets, backing up and shooting, running to a barrier and shooting. All in all went through about 200 rounds, had a blast and learned some useful information.
Sorry that yours sucked man, plus my class was on five people in total, we all got along and had a fun day at the range.
Yeah. I guess it's different state to state. New Mexico where I was living is a shall issue state with pretty relaxed laws so I think most CC courses cover the bare minimum.
The first day of class was all in a classroom, I don't remember how long, it was ok but no groundbreaking knowledge was shared. The second day was classroom in the morning then shooting in the afternoon, in NM you just have to qualify by Caliber not by weapon, so for example if you want to be licensed to carry 45acp and smaller, qualify semi auto with a 45. Same for a revolver. It's stupid, basically if you qualify with a pistol in 45 and a revolver in 45, you can carry anything from 45 down.
I shot a 357 magnum but actually just shot 38spcls through it, the instructor didn't even check, I also shot a glock 19 but told them I was qualifying with 45...again they didn't check.
I guess after the class was over, 3 or 4 of us stayed back and did some fun shooting with the assistant instructor who actually knew a lot about shooting and drills so that was cool but the class itself was literally a "check the box, pay the check, get your card" type of thing.
