FBI Pistol Qualification: January 2019 Course

QIT-99 target and points

John Daub’s KR Training compilation specifies a QIT-99 target for the January 2019 course. Fifty scoring hits give one hundred points; it lists ninety points for instructors. The smaller reference boxes are not higher-value scoring zones. [1]

Safariland’s CADRE Dispatch gives eighty points as the agents’ pass mark and ninety as the instructors’. [2]

The QIT-99’s paper is 23 by 35 inches. Our printable is a course checklist for it, not the target itself. [3] [4]

Ten timed strings

Each string is timed separately. The first divides six shots between the two hands. Later strings change the start position, include a reload or combine standing and kneeling. The table lists the published conditions. [1]

The individual firing limits add up to sixty-three seconds, but each string has its own limit. At five yards, the two three-round strings allow different times because one starts concealed and the other at ready. [1]

Scores by string

String scores identify points lost at each distance and under each condition. Our checklist has a row for each string, with boxes for its hits and points. [1] [4]

January 2013 and January 2019

The same compilation’s January 2013 course uses sixty rounds and one point per bottle hit. Its instructor threshold is 54 of 60; the 2019 threshold is 90 of 100. Both are ninety percent, but the courses and raw totals differ. [1]

Historical source

John C. “Hsoi” Daub’s Drills, Qualifications, Standards and Tests, revised March 2021, places the 2019 course on page 33 and the 2013 course on page 34. Current FBI qualification requirements and administration remain with the institution. [1]