Week 3 complete

Week 3 has come and gone. It wasn't anything special really. Most of the week was spent in the classroom except for Wednesday we had to qualify with the standard shotgun used by the DOC which is the Remington 870 pump action 12 guage. Since I really had no experience shooting a shotgun before I was kinda worried I wasnt gonna qualify since everything was timed. But in the end it wasn't that bad at all. We received 7 rounds for the shotgun. Each round is a 12 gauge 2 3/4 inch 00 buckshot with 9 pellets in each. To qualify, you have to get atleast 36 holes in the target. You have a potential to get 63 so you wouldn't think it would be too hard. Well for some people, it was. We were shooting at distances of 25, 40 and 50 yards. For someone who has never shot a shotgun before it was rather easy. At the end of the day, I came out in 2nd place of our class of 21. I had 58/63 and the guy who beat me had 60/63. That's not too bad if you ask me. If you feel you can do better while being timed, you let me know and I'll be happy to let you prove it. At the end of the day we had low/limited light training. They let us fire the handguns again as well as a few more rounds with the shotgun. I did pretty well on those too. We finally got outta there at 8pm. It was a long day for sure, and picking up brass on the range with flashlights wasn't fun at all.

To the right is the shotgun Target from last week. I picked a white guy this time cause someone mentioned I had shot all block guys prior to this one. Now I am a racially indifferent shooter :)