Today I hit the range with a good friend of mine who served with the U.S.M.C. during the Desert Storm conflict. I got to shoot (more than just) the five numbered guns in the above picture.You can click on the photo to view a slightly larger version of it.Here's a picture of me with the .50 caliber (the BFG at the back of the above photo).
I also shot several skeet with both a Winchester and a Mossberg 12-gauge pump-action shotgun. I impressed my friends when I nailed 5 of 5 skeet with the Mossberg, which seemed the easier of the guns to shoot. The Winchester has a tighter choke which means the pellets didn't spread as much, so you needed to be dead-on accurate with it. I was the only one who could actually hit a skeet with the Winchester :)
Not pictured are several .357 Magnums and a .44 Magnum (all revolvers), all of which were actually fairly pleasant to shoot...except for the .44 Magnum which kicked like a mule. It was not the most brutal handgun to shoot, that honor belonged to a friend's Beretta Tomcat, a tiny semi-automatic that could fit in the hip pocket of a pair of jeans and almost go undetected. Because it was so small it kicked a lot, even though it only fired a .32ACP round.
I guess with the adrenaline flowing, I didn't care about bruising, but now my right shoulder is starting to feel a little tender, and for some reason my whole body aches as if I spent the day working instead of playing and having fun, and boy, did I have fun :)
Sight/s of the day was the deer which wandered across the back of the range. In the morning, while we were shooting the handguns, and in the early afternoon while we were blazing away with the rifles. Now keep in mind that my friend and two other shooters had their .50 caliber rifles out and firing, and several people were blowing skeet out of the sky, so there was a lot of noise going on, and yet these deer wandered within 400 yards of the shooters. No, we didn't shoot them, it's not deer season, and as soon as a Lane Marshall noticed the deer, a "Cease Fire! Deer on the Range" announcement was made, so we had to stop shooting or risk a $10,000 fine for shooting dear out of season :P
All in all, we had a great day. Thanks go to my buddy for providing the day's toys, and to my wife for letting me out to play :)
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4 comments:
You americans and your guns :-)
More fun than paintball or laser tag I bet!
So whats next? Some of this http://www.robocoaster.com/english/index2.html#
maybe??
yikes! Those guns are scary-lookin
Boys and their toys. J asked me if I wanted to go, I declined unless they let me shoot the machine gun like they do on TV, just spraying bullets. But of course they would not let me do that. Chicken. :)
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