phorvick wrote:
It is also clear that I have been pilloried by a few folks on this board for my range requirement.
That's not clear to me. Could you possibly quote some of that pillorying? I think there's folks -- like me,
who has also said, repeatedly, that you're one of the instructors who I think do a good job, and who has been willing to teach a CLE class with you in the past and made it clear I would be happy to do that, again, in the future -- who have expressed some concerns about a ten-round qual with a borrowed, preloaded .22. Not an issue of it not being a "actual shooting qualification exercise" -- we're not talking pellet gun, NERF gun or Beamhit simulator here -- but about it being less than it ought to be.
That's a different thing than pillorying. I think you know, Paul, that I'm willing to pillory folks who I think deserve it. But either I'm misreading you or you're implying that I've been doing that to you, and I'd really hate if that were the case, as I pride myself on expressing myself clearly -- albeit perhaps sometimes a bit forcefully -- and I don't think I've done that.
Orthogonally: I'm not going to find myself, in this discussion or another, defending the wisdom of the, err, deceptive edge practices of skimping on practical matters just to get in more "trigger time," as I'm not in favor of the deceptive edge practices of skimping on practical matters just to get in more "trigger time."