It is December in Nebraska -- 30 degrees (Fahrenheit), with nice gusty winds so that the weather folks said it actually felt like 20 degrees out. Obviously, it was a good day to shoot the
FBI Firearms Qualification outdoors!
I decided to do this for a couple of reasons:
- I haven’t shot this in awhile, and I’ve never shot it on camera while freezing, so I thought it might be interesting to see how I’d do, and how much the cold would affect me.
- In my Rule Two article, I talked about how this is a good qualification to run for “court value,” which is something that Greg Ellifritz mentions in his article, linked above. As such, it seemed like a good idea to show what it looks like for those who don’t know the course of fire.
It was so cold I couldn’t talk correctly. My face was numb, and I was having problems forming words correctly. No, I don’t have a speech impediment, but you couldn’t tell that from how I was talking...
https://precisionresponse.wordpress.com/2016/12/27/fbi-firearms-qualification/Man it was cold out. My hands were so cold I was just crunching the trigger by the end of it, and it showed. The target looked like someone attempting to badly pattern a shotgun. Managed to get them all in the "it counts!" zone, but....not pretty.
