Thread: Going to give pistol shooting a go

Originally Posted by seano

Also to note ... PNZ affiliated clubs will only allow you to shoot "Tyro" as in "NO drawing a loaded pistol from a holster" and ONLY allowing you start from a 45 degree angle ... after the "load and make ready" command has been given.
And your also NOT allowed to RUN while carrying or shooting your pistol,carbine,shotgun etc ... you MUST WALK until "Holster Qualified"
Bit more to it than just drawing your gun

Is there somewhere that it's written that you cannot run until you have done the holster qualification course?

When I did the course, I wasn't expecting (until I first read the manual) for them to go over all of the shooting positions, weak hand, strong hand etc. By that stage it was all stuff that I had done at club match level. Not that I think it's a bad thing. I did it as a 1/2 day course and it was no problem time wise or other to cover all those things again.

Now, out of all of the things they covered which wasn't related to drawing , one thing they didn't cover was running. So whats the reasoning behind not being able to run until holster qualified and if thats the case why is there nothing explicit about in in the course?

I was running at club matches as soon as I was confident and of course was always tyro until my course.