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Just got back from the CHL Instructor Renewal Class. It rained sooo hard the entire time we were qualifying on the range, I'll never go back in October again, but the range officers were AWESOME!! The targets quit working and their microphone quit working because of the rain, so the range guys kept walking up and down behind us (even more than usual) calling the shots so we could hear.

They are putting the class online for Instructors and we will be able to do the classroom portion online from now on and get another CHL Instructor to do the range part. Then every other year we will have to go back to the DPS range to qualify.

I believe you mean every other renewal not every other year regarding range qualification.

Crossfire was there too. We were the gang of 3 sitting in the back left hand corner of the room.

The range session was about as miserable as it gets. Ankle deep water and rain so hard that, at 45 feet, I couldn't even make out my target and was just shooting in the general direction and hoping for the best. Still managed a 248 with the revolver and 245 with the semi. They stopped us at one point and offered to let us come back another day to qualify. It's a long ways from North Texas to Austin, so I was glad we just got it over with.

A couple of interesting things from the classroom....

Hitt gave the CHL updates presentation. He said - and I quote "there is NO castle doctrine law in Texas. If you shoot, even if you are justified, you can still spend years fighting it out in civil court". WHAT?? Did we just go back in time to 2005??? I was so tired by the time he got to that, I didn't even challenge him. And neither did anyone else. I was surprised. And we wonder why CHL instructors don't all teach the same material. Depends on when you went to instructor class and what you heard. He did acknowledge that he had been with the CHL program for only 7 weeks, but really, you are teaching instructors and you don't know the law???

Another thing, and this was the one I DID challenge, but got no meaningful response. DPS is pushing HARD for all fingerprinting, photographing, and notarizing to be done by FAST and ONLY by FAST. I have a real problem with that. No one entity should have a lock on this. FAST is not convenient to everyone across the state. They are not cheap, and I don't get why DPS wants to let them monopolize this process. Saying that 60% of rolled prints are rejected makes me really wonder how bad some of the other fingerprinters are, because I KNOW we don't get that many of our prints back!

Hey Crossfire,

I was sitting in the row just in front of ya'll second from the right end.

My poor beloved Sig... I'm cleaning both of my guns today! It was VERY hard to stand there and watch my guns get rained on. I looked down the line and we all looked like sad puppy dogs who couldn't wait to get our guns back in the bag and out of the rain...even in the miserable conditions they guy to the left of me on the line shot a perfect 250 with both guns. I scored 245 with revolver and 247 with my beloved Sig. I felt bad for the guys who only had the trash bags to protect them from the cold, wind, and rain.

When we had both firearms and ammo out for inspection, the trooper came by and knocked my Glock off the barrel into the water. When he fished it out and shook it off I said "Good thing it's a Glock!" You know DPS troopers have no sense of humor?

Crossfire wrote:When we had both firearms and ammo out for inspection, the trooper came by and knocked my Glock off the barrel into the water. When he fished it out and shook it off I said "Good thing it's a Glock!" You know DPS troopers have no sense of humor?

Well I think its funny!
Those guys are definitely a bit dry.