Today, I did three CCW renewals and saw some interesting stuff.
In Arkansas, permits are good for four years and then you must renew by visiting a licensed instructor and demonstrating safe gun handling and proficiency in hitting a target.
First pair was a married couple--both into black powder competition.
They displayed a mindset I've found common amongst gun enthusiasts around here in the Ozark Mountains.
They pour thousands of dollars into their reproduction and original black powder competition guns.
The guns they trust their lives to every single day as CCW pieces???? Bryco .380 automatics.
Same thing with local deer hunters. Lots of them pour obscene amounts into a .300 Win mag with finest optics, trigger jobs, Shilen barrels, etc. They shoot those rifles maybe 25 times a year, sighting in and hunting combined.
For CCW, they get the greasiest, cheapest, lousiest handgun they can buy from somebody dealing out of an old van in an alley.
Anway, one of the Brycos didn't survive qualification as the CHAMBER CRACKED IN HALF!!!!!!!!! Thank goodness it was only in a .380.
Third renewal was a local Espicopal minister.
Don't mess with that minister. He was an oustanding shot with his Star 9mm. The Star is his truck gun, and he carries a Kahr 9mm on his person.
In fact, when I found out that he and another guy practice the Tueller Drill with plastic training guns and rubber knives with the county sheriff (who is an old buddy of their's from way back) I started asking him for tips and advice about my renewal training program.
He also hosts weekly Bible study classes at his church which always end with a prayer and a trip to the local range afterwards. Sounds like maybe I need to go to his Bible studies in the future.
Great afternoon, met some new folks, and I made some more gun cash.
The married couple are going shopping for new CCW pieces tomorrow. I gave them some suggestions.
hillbilly
In Arkansas, permits are good for four years and then you must renew by visiting a licensed instructor and demonstrating safe gun handling and proficiency in hitting a target.
First pair was a married couple--both into black powder competition.
They displayed a mindset I've found common amongst gun enthusiasts around here in the Ozark Mountains.
They pour thousands of dollars into their reproduction and original black powder competition guns.
The guns they trust their lives to every single day as CCW pieces???? Bryco .380 automatics.
Same thing with local deer hunters. Lots of them pour obscene amounts into a .300 Win mag with finest optics, trigger jobs, Shilen barrels, etc. They shoot those rifles maybe 25 times a year, sighting in and hunting combined.
For CCW, they get the greasiest, cheapest, lousiest handgun they can buy from somebody dealing out of an old van in an alley.
Anway, one of the Brycos didn't survive qualification as the CHAMBER CRACKED IN HALF!!!!!!!!! Thank goodness it was only in a .380.
Third renewal was a local Espicopal minister.
Don't mess with that minister. He was an oustanding shot with his Star 9mm. The Star is his truck gun, and he carries a Kahr 9mm on his person.
In fact, when I found out that he and another guy practice the Tueller Drill with plastic training guns and rubber knives with the county sheriff (who is an old buddy of their's from way back) I started asking him for tips and advice about my renewal training program.
He also hosts weekly Bible study classes at his church which always end with a prayer and a trip to the local range afterwards. Sounds like maybe I need to go to his Bible studies in the future.
Great afternoon, met some new folks, and I made some more gun cash.
The married couple are going shopping for new CCW pieces tomorrow. I gave them some suggestions.
hillbilly
She had yet to put a single round of ammo through it. 
