Strangest or most out of place gun seen at a CCW class?

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I saw some time back, a person at my range take the cc class with a 99.9% mint blue Colt Python. Every time he pulled it out of the leather holster to shoot it I cringed.Mint Pythons do not belong in a holster.
 
Not very odd, but I used a cz82 for my ccw class. It got some looks as most others were using glocks
 
Broomhandle mauser
Nagant pistol
Colt 1860 repro (the gent was told to come back another day - indoor range, no BP pistols allowed)
 
I taught some classes years ago, and saw every manner of gun walk in the door. The strangest or most out of place was a blackpowder repro SAA. It was a small class, at a range which allowed it, so I permitted it for the class after discussing it with the other students, and I'm glad I did. The shooter was in his sixties, and hadn't been shooting in over 40 years. He had a blast, and the rest of the class enjoyed learning about the quite different gun than the stable of glocks that were otherwise present. He shot surprisingly well with it (though obviously reloads were an issue!).

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When qualifying as an Armed Security Officer, I once shot the course using a S&W Mod 60. Not that unusual except the RO told me I wouldn't be able to reload fast enough to get my rounds down range to qualify. I took that as a challenge, and met it.Didn't do as well as I did w/ my 1911 or BHP clone, but I still passed it, on the high side of the scores
 
Maj.Striker said:
In my class we were told you had to bring a pistol or revolver .380 or larger, no .22LR, .25 or .32 and it had to have a magazine capacity of at least 5 rounds.
This was not a legal requirement (because Iowa isn't a "Shall Issue" state unfortunately) it was just a requirement of the people teaching the course.

One of the guys had an older big 6 inch .357 S&W revolver but he was getting his permit for professional work (night guard) so probably was the piece he was going to be carrying while at work. Of the entire class though about 75% were using either Smith & Wesson MPs or Springfield XDs. I remember all three gentlemen next to me were using S&W MPs. I qualified with my Tokarev TT33 because well,...I had lots of ammo for it and I didn't want to waste my good 9mm SD rounds on paper targets.
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I also qualified with a Tokarev pistol. In Arizona, there's no restrictions on caliber used for qualification. I thought it would be fun to use my Romanian Tokarev TTC. I shot a nice pattern with it using S&B ammo. When I carry the Tokarev for defense, I have it loaded with Wolf hollowpoints. I've seen the ballistic tests on those rounds, and they expand very effectively. My father used my Ruger Mark III, but I wanted to use something a bit different and a bit more practical for everyday use.
 
I took a defensive shooting class (not a CCW requirement) last year.

Plastic ruled the day. I shot a full sized government- out of the 30 or so people, I was one of two with a 1911 style gun. only less frequent gun there was the lone revolver shooter with a smith 686.
 
CZ 82s, Baikal Makarovs, Nagant Revolvers, Lugers, Walther P-38s, Tokarevs(although not so odd now as I have come to love them for what they are), CZ 70s(the little .32 acp walther look alikes), and all manner of European made gun. Had a nice older fellow who was all about black powder bring in a Remington BP cap-and-ball that he had shortened to 3"(he shot better than most of the other folks so I couldn't well complain, to be safe I had him shoot my S&W M19-4 6" just to be safe on the actual requirements).

Most folks in my classes are total newbs taking an NRA First Steps Pistol to satisfy their CWP application requirements. So I provide a wide variety of firearms and love it when folks realize there are good guns besides S&W and Glock. Heck you say Ruger and half the time they think you said Luger, my southern accent isn't that thick.
 
OldCavSoldier said:
Took my first CCW proficiency test with an S&W M28 with a 6-inch barrel. (It was the only pistol I owned at the time, and, yes, it did conceal quite nicely in my Bianchi shoulder rig, while wearing cool and cold weather clothing.) After about 1977, all my proficiency tests were taken with a Colt Combat Commander.

The "waaaay coolest" handgun I have seen brought to a CCW proficiency class was a mint (yes, NIB, zero rounds ever fired from it) Colt Python with a 4 inch barrel that the 20-something year old fellow attending the class had inherited from his grandfather. He also brought some vintage FBI load ammunition in the original boxes. The other fellows in the course did manage to convince him to not shoot the ammo (due to its being so rare and valuable), and gave him .38SPL to use to qualify with. This was after he convinced everybody that he really did want to shoot the Python...even though it was worth north of about $1500. The kid was a natural...after only about two cylinders, his groups double action were silver-dollar size at 7 yards and smaller closer in.
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That is funny! Actually, the CCW class I attended had a few neat ones.. One small framed lady brought a .44 Mag S&W model 29. She dropped it. Twice.... Loaded.... and the other was a similar story, but it was a widow who brought her deceased husband's unfired-new-in-the-original-box (gasp) model 16 Smith & Wesson. Absolutely flawless gun wrapped in it's original wax paper. She was having trouble finding ammunition for it, but brought the gun anyway. The instructor and I helped her wipe down and re-wrap the gun so she could shoot my Ruger model 22/45 for the rest of the day...
 
In terms of diameter, yes, but the 7.62x25 round is a high-velocity round more comparable in power to .40. A 7.62x25 hollowpoint round will mushroom to .45 on impact and still get optimum penetration, and a 7.62x25 FMJ round will defeat a level 2 vest. You can rebarrel a Tokarev to 9mm, but the 9mm round is a kitten compared to the 7.62 round it was designed to fire.
 
When my father lived in Las Vegas, he had to qualify with the guns on his permit. I had given him a SIG P226 in 9x19 as a gift, and he wanted to qualify with that. Since I was in town with him, I went to the range with him so he could qualify with his new SIG.

Being Las Vegas, there are some characters and some unique guns. One shooter, dressed in expensive western-style clothing, showed up with a Freedom Arms Model 83 in .454 Casull. Not too weird, except this was the limited production three-inch model with no ejector. It also had some gorgeous ivory grips on it. I shoot .454 Casull in FAs but not on an indoor range -- and not with a three-inch barrel. I thought he might shoot .45 Colt for qualification, but I was sorely mistaken. The muzzle blast was concussive. He also shot very small groups with it.
 
In Ohio, you need not qualifiy with a CCW weapon, so any handgun capable of firing five or more shots is fine. I have seen about everything, from .22's, .25's, to .454's. .44 Mags with full loads are pretty much the upper end spectrum, and we've had a few long barreled ones. Pricewise, we have had $49 Ravens & Rohm revolvers, to HK MK23's and Elites. No Sig 210's yet. Shooters must shoot 3 separate five shot groups, so high capacity is meaningless. Lots of people bring .22's just to make the qualification easier. They don't try to train on their carry gun, just qualify.
 
My dad took it with a Taurus PT1911.

I'm gonna take it with a CZ-PO1 with CT lasers (I need to get it first)
 
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