Fun, right? In its most basic form, I stood on the range and watched well over 100,000 rounds of ammo (all Speer Gold Dot!) burned through four pallets of Sigs in very short order.Īs a prerequisite to the training, I had to trek to the state trooper academy in Florida – those are some humorless guys there – and take a Sig P-series armor course. This meant, at one time or another, I had upwards of 200 brand-new Sigs on hand fresh from the factory. I had to issue these out and put candidates through a 500-round training cycle followed by a certification course of fire observed by a gold-badged federal inspector. Long story short, the company was contractually obligated to use the then DHS-standard P229R for its guard force. I STOOD ON THE RANGE AND WATCHED WELL OVER 100,000 ROUNDS OF AMMO BURNED THROUGH FOUR PALLETS OF SIGS IN VERY SHORT ORDER.
Intending this to be a temp job until I moved back into telecom, I wound up with the company for almost a decade, running courses all over the country on a variety of different contracts. Dusting off my firearms trainer certs, I soon took a gig with a Department of Homeland Security contractor to train guards working the myriad of FEMA sites that sprang up like mushrooms. That was the year Hurricane Katrina sucker-punched the Gulf Coast and left my then-profession with Ma Bell somewhat on the ropes. Speaking of which, fast forward our story to 2005. 40 S&W), the P229 still carried enough cartridges to give someone who carried two extra mags 40 rounds on tap.
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