kimmie1911
NES Member
Boston and Brookline (which allows BGRA in Dorchester to administer the test) are the only 2 towns, I believe, that require the idiotic range qualification test for your LTC. Boston is outdoors at Moon Island. Right on the water. 12 rounds at 7 yards one hand and 18 rounds at 15 yards with an antique 38sp revolver with a 13????(feels like 50) pound trigger. It's really not a difficult COF but I don't shoot a revolver often, in the middle of the winter, on the water, with a bunch of cops on my shoulder, where failing means losing my license, so I've been practicing for the past couple of months in preparation for a test that getting my license renewed, hinges on. I only needed a score of 210 to pass which, if I put every shot in the 8ring, I'd be good. Can you say stress????? I have to say that everytime I've been out there (this is my 3rd time), they've been extremely nice and pleasant. The first time I shot in a blizzard with 30mph wind gusts. The 2nd time it was a monsoon and my glasses were fogged the entire time. Today was the best day ever that I've been out there. Cloudy but not too cold or windy. Again, they were all really nice and mostly concered with safe gun handling. Lot's of laughing and joking. Once they discovered I was an instructor (not sure how that slipped out), they started devising courses of fire for me where I had to do cartwheels down the range or shoot over my shoulder. Not funny. I then became worried about embarrasing myself. Anyway, in the end, alls well. They let us shoot the 12 rounds at 7 yards with 2 hands double action. I did the 18 rounds at 15 yards double action too. I really wanted a perfect score of 300. I'm happy with my 273. I don't think the gun I was using had ever been cleaned and after my first 6 shots, it started binding. The flyer and most of the 8 ring shots were at the end where I could barely squeeze the trigger. I started to ask for a different gun but I knew I only had one off the target and I just wanted to be done at that point! Woohoooo - don't have to do that again for 6 more years!
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