Although I agree in principle that the range qualification could be "a tad (
) more challenging, I do not agree that everyone cheats. I qualified (and from what i could see on my target before they took it away, if not 100%, then VERY close - maybe a 7 or two), with my Beretta 96 Vertec (.40 for those that don't know Berettas). I have other "easier to shoot" guns, but this is my favorite. It's too large to carry with my donut belly, but hey, it's comfy on my nightstand! A lady in my class who had barely shot, was shooting some flavor of a 9mm - never got close enough to see.
Napier wrote:If I were Texas' Gun God, I would require stricter range qualification. Everybody in my class "cheated" on the range. I'll bet everybody everywhere "cheats." How? Because we all used the largest most accurate least recoil most reliable semi-autos we could get our respective hands around. Knowing that in the worst case of carrying in the summer wearing nothing but a Speedo everyone will opt for a mousegun, I would require qualification with a mousegun. I can pass the test with one, as I regularly shoot mine at 25 yards. I believe that if you aren't proficient with what you may be drawing worst case, you got no binness carrying.