Strangest gun you qualified with

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I'm fixing to take my CHL class and am contemplating using my old P-38. What is the most unusual weapon you have actually used to qualify with, whether it was for a CHL or a job? My other choice would have been a Luger, but the sights are minimal on that. I have more modern pistols, but brother is borrowing one for the same class and I have the P-38, so I figured- what the hey!!
 
I forgot the ammo for my .45 during my CHP class and ended up qualifying with a 6" S&W Model 17 .22lr. Not exactly the prototypical concealed carry choice.
 
a friend of mine used a blackpowder flintlock pistol... very odd idea. and a guy in my ccw class used a 9mm tt-33 that he somehow attached a red dot sight to.
 
I grabbed the wrong gun case running out the door, so I used a .454 casull to qualify, instead of my G19 like I had planned.
 
Well my CWP only requires the one time qualification which I did with my SIG P6 which isn't anything too special, but I've got a Walther P1 which is ergonomically identical to the P38 you have, and I don't see why it wouldn't do the job just fine. Heck aside from the magazine release (which isn't really an operation that would have affected my qualification) it is pretty much the same in function to any other modern DA/SA firearm.

Just to be different though, if I have to do a shooting qualification again I may just take my M1895 Nagant for grins-n-giggles :).
 
My dad earned a ribbon with a WW2 era M1 carbine.

He later re-qualified with an M-16 but he always told me that first marksmanship ribbon was darn tough to earn.
 
Single Action Sweetness

With regard to CCW classes, shooting/qualifying isn't beset upon us in Colorado, so many classes don't require you to bring a firearm. A lot of them specifically ask that you don't. My class required everyone to bring an unloaded handgun just to demonstrate the very most basic handling (which end is which).

I thought it would be neat to take my single-action Blackhawk to the class, so I did.
One of the old fellas that were instructing the class, really perked up when he saw it. He even told me how he appreciated seeing it and said that he doesn't usually see them in class. It sort of made his day after seeing the usual subcompact, plastic fantastics, day in and day out.
 
When my wife and I were doing our CCW class we took a Gov. Model .45 I was comfortable with it and she was as well having grown up with a dad and mom who were gun enthusiasts and both qualified with it. Another lady and her husband were taking the class and she had a Taurus .38 spl and he had a S&W . model 29 .44 mag. They lady with the Taurus fired one shot and it locked it tight and would not budge so she turned to her hubby's .44 mag and he was shooting magnum loads with it.

In the process of shooting both her and my wife, small women in size were side by side shooting, one a .45 and the other a .44. Some old guy next to them was ranting and cussing about why are these crazy women using those damn big guns are they crazy! He was shooing a .22 pistol...

Funny party, my wife and the other lade qualified first attempt with nice scores and the old guy complaining about them was about to make his third attempt to qualify with his .22.
 
My friend didn't realize that in Oklahoma if you take your CCW class with a revolver, then you can't carry an auto and he had brought his snubby to shoot. I just happened to have my bullseye pistol box in the truck and so he qualified with my Hammerli 208.
 
What is the most unusual weapon you have actually used to qualify with, whether it was for a CHL or a job?
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Well it's not unusual but, I took a class with a Glock model 22
 
A Mk19 and M2 using a remote firing system, more like playing a video game except the whole room vibrates and not just the controller.
 
I qualified with my hi point c9.A older gentleman there also qualified with a luger and another one with a tokerove and his brother with a makorove.
 
Grayrock said:
I'm fixing to take my CHL class and am contemplating using my old P-38. What is the most unusual weapon you have actually used to qualify with, whether it was for a CHL or a job? My other choice would have been a Luger, but the sights are minimal on that. I have more modern pistols, but brother is borrowing one for the same class and I have the P-38, so I figured- what the hey!!
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Guy who runs our LGS, also teaches carry classes and other courses had a married couple who qualified with a P 38. The wife won the prize, an inscribed .50 BMG casing for being the most accurate shooter in the class. One hole in the center mass of the target. Myself, I qualified wi8th a 55 year old S&W Chief Special, it was my only handgun at the time.
 
CoRoMo pointed out,

With regard to CCW classes, shooting/qualifying isn't beset upon us in Colorado, so many classes don't require you to bring a firearm. A lot of them specifically ask that you don't. My class required everyone to bring an unloaded handgun just to demonstrate the very most basic handling (which end is which).
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Our instructors wanted us to demonstrate our gun handling, so they brought some pellet pistols for this purpose and had the students rotate through with theirs, shooting at about fifteen feet in the basement of a Church.

I brought my own, a Crosman CO2.177 REPEATAIR Model 1008 and qualified with that:

http://www.bbgunworld.com/store/usrimage/1008.jpg

I wish the sights on some of my other (real) guns were as good the "iron" sights on this one.

Terry, 230RN
 
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