WHAT: Georgia L.E.O. unofficial (just for fun and bragging rights) P.O.S.T. qualification shoot.
WHEN: Date to be determined, but it will have to be on a SATURDAY morning, starting at 9 a.m., before the range gets too crowded. We'll have half the range set aside just for this match.
COST: Total of $30, with twenty going to the range and ten to the rangemaster / instructor who is organizing it, supervising it, and certifying the scores.
LOCATION: Wild West Traders, Marietta (west Cobb).
PURPOSE AND INTENT:
Let's make a match out of the Georgia Law Enforcement semi-auto pistol qualification shoot.
https://www.gapost.org/pdf_file/gsac05.pdf
This is a fun match, done for bragging rights and your own self-awareness. Can you shoot as well as a police officer or deputy is expected to, going in cold, without any warm-up on this particular day?
Why it's not "official" ? The range officer(s) supervising it would be NRA certified instructors, but this would not be an NRA designed shooting match or qualification test. Instead, it's a Georgia-specific L.E.O. duty pistol qualification that all cops and deputies and armed agents of various state agencies must pass. But the range officers/ instructors are not L.E.O. instructors with P.O.S.T. teaching credentials.
DETAILS OF THE SHOOT:
Click the link above for the exact course of fire. It involves a few shots from 25 yards, more shots from 15 yards, some from 7 yards, and a few from just 3 yards.
There will be one time when you have to use a barricade as "cover" and you must partially put yourself behind it, but not let your body or your gun touch it.
There will be one time when you have to take a knee and shoot from the kneeling position, and once time when you have to reload your weapon with a spare mag while the stopwatch is ticking.
Most of the shots will be directed to the body (not quite center of mass, but higher up in the chest area). A few head/ face shots are required.
All of the shooting will be done under time constraints, but you don't have to be really fast, either at shooting OR at drawing or swapping mags. You could take twice as much time as the best IDPA / IPSC / GSSA match shooters and easily meet these law enforcement time limits.
Generally speaking, if you can make an empty soup can jump with every shot at 50 feet, firing at a rate of one shot every 2 seconds, you may come close to acing this test with a perfect score.
If you are interested in doing this some Saturday several weeks from now, post here or message me.
Oh, and everybody will get a certificate to take home with them, too. Use it for bragging rights, frame it and hang it on the wall of your man cave, or let your mom put it on her refrigerator with a magnet like she did with that "A" test from your 4th grade Social Studies class.
WHEN: Date to be determined, but it will have to be on a SATURDAY morning, starting at 9 a.m., before the range gets too crowded. We'll have half the range set aside just for this match.
COST: Total of $30, with twenty going to the range and ten to the rangemaster / instructor who is organizing it, supervising it, and certifying the scores.
LOCATION: Wild West Traders, Marietta (west Cobb).
PURPOSE AND INTENT:
Let's make a match out of the Georgia Law Enforcement semi-auto pistol qualification shoot.
https://www.gapost.org/pdf_file/gsac05.pdf
This is a fun match, done for bragging rights and your own self-awareness. Can you shoot as well as a police officer or deputy is expected to, going in cold, without any warm-up on this particular day?
Why it's not "official" ? The range officer(s) supervising it would be NRA certified instructors, but this would not be an NRA designed shooting match or qualification test. Instead, it's a Georgia-specific L.E.O. duty pistol qualification that all cops and deputies and armed agents of various state agencies must pass. But the range officers/ instructors are not L.E.O. instructors with P.O.S.T. teaching credentials.
DETAILS OF THE SHOOT:
Click the link above for the exact course of fire. It involves a few shots from 25 yards, more shots from 15 yards, some from 7 yards, and a few from just 3 yards.
There will be one time when you have to use a barricade as "cover" and you must partially put yourself behind it, but not let your body or your gun touch it.
There will be one time when you have to take a knee and shoot from the kneeling position, and once time when you have to reload your weapon with a spare mag while the stopwatch is ticking.
Most of the shots will be directed to the body (not quite center of mass, but higher up in the chest area). A few head/ face shots are required.
All of the shooting will be done under time constraints, but you don't have to be really fast, either at shooting OR at drawing or swapping mags. You could take twice as much time as the best IDPA / IPSC / GSSA match shooters and easily meet these law enforcement time limits.
Generally speaking, if you can make an empty soup can jump with every shot at 50 feet, firing at a rate of one shot every 2 seconds, you may come close to acing this test with a perfect score.
If you are interested in doing this some Saturday several weeks from now, post here or message me.
Oh, and everybody will get a certificate to take home with them, too. Use it for bragging rights, frame it and hang it on the wall of your man cave, or let your mom put it on her refrigerator with a magnet like she did with that "A" test from your 4th grade Social Studies class.
