Recently, I observed a quarrel between a firearms instructor and an agent at a shotgun qual, and I'd like to get the PF LE forum's take on it. The FI had chosen to make the shotgun qual the very last event of a somewhat fatiguing day of shooting and moving barricades around the range. The shotgun qual itself calls for transitioning to pistol and making two headshots at the end when the shotgun runs dry. It is a pass/fail qual, and the agent, experiencing some arm tremors due to fatigue, missed one of the headshots. Let me be clear: No one disputed that he failed, and no one said anything about pencil-whipping anything. But, he held that A) it was dumb to put the qual at the end of the range day when people are tired, and that B) the qual was dumb for allowing a situation in which a missed pistol shot caused a failure on a shotgun qual.
What say you? And, a related question: In your opinion, should a qual be shot cold? Warm? Tired?