RoyGBiv wrote:This...Teamless wrote:While there is a curriculum to follow by the DPS, your instructor will advise you prior to each course of fire, what you will fire, how often, etc.TGIF wrote:or just 5 shots within 10sec?
Some say "on the whistle shoot 3 shots", or 1 shot per whistle, etc.
Making sure you listen to the instructors directions was actually more difficult (not very, but more..) than actually hitting the target.
... You should really not sweat the proficiency test.. If you have had some minimal practice and can reliably hit the center of mass on a (rather large) target just a few feet away (across your bedroom, basically), you will not have any trouble with the proficiency. It's 40 shots from relatively close range... then 10 shots from about 20 feet (IIRC). If you hit ~85% of the close up shots, you can miss ALL of the last 10 and still pass... Two people in my most recent class were literally shaking on the firing line and neither one had any trouble passing...
Take a deep breath... Go to the range a few times... Take a basic handgun class..
I don't know if the image will show up or not, but the guy next to me that put a stray on my target (next to the left ear) passed. Don't sweat it.
***note*** this was a practice target done before class***