BassCliff
Hellcat
Hi!
My friend Josh is the music director at church. We had planned to get to the range after church for a little fun. He bought lunch today, bless him. Then he said, "I forgot my gun." I told him, "No worries, I brought plenty."
Josh was nice enough to also buy another box of 9mm, as well as lunch, so we sent 150 rounds of 9mm and 100 rounds of .22 downrange. We started with the Ronin. Josh really liked it.
It was a totally new gun to him, as were all of these, so I won't show you most of his targets, except maybe where we had planned to go head to head. This was my first target with the Ronin.
Yeah, not great. I'm shooting too fast so I'll slow down a little for the next one.
Yeah, OK, that's a little better. But you know I can do better than that. I hope. Next we worked with the HK VP9. I'm used to shooting 10 shot strings all the time but we pretty much loaded up all the magazines. Here's my target #1.
Yep, we did a lot of patching. Josh was shooting really fast and wide. Here's my second magazine with the VP9.
OK, well, all but one of them are on the 8" circle, at least. Josh got all of his on the silhouette. I told him, "That's good combat accuracy."
Here's Josh dumping a mag from my VP9.
Then we had some plinking fun with my Heritage Rough Rider .22 cowboy gun, single action.
We went head to head on this target. Josh took the head and right shoulder. I took the left shoulder and center mass.
I managed to land all mine inside the 4" circle. Lucky. We had saved just enough 9mm rounds for another head to head. We put 15 on center mass with the VP9, then 10 on the head with the Ronin. This is Josh's target.
I think Josh did better with the head shots than I did. Here's my target, 15 VP9 rounds on center, 10 Ronin rounds on the head.
Josh had to leave the session then but I still had .22 ammo. I started plinking some more until my gun blew up.
The screw came loose on the ejector rod assembly and it launched onto the range. I was able to find all the parts and put everything back together with the little tool kit in my range bag. Maybe some locktite is in order for that ejector rod screw. After reassembly, I stuck on some more small reactive circles and tried to put six hits on each. I think I did pretty good.
I had 16 rounds of .22 left so I just pounded some more on center mass before quitting.
Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, we had procured my favorite lane, #10.
It was a slow afternoon at the range, only one other shooter. But I didn't feel like pulling out my timer for any drills. We were just there to have a bit of fun and let me impart my semi-vapid knowledge of firearms with my friend.
Here ya go, this is what we were doing earlier in the day. There are two links because they are both queued up to the music. We had a rather long "host moment" after the first song, pastor was giving updates on a youngster with cancer. He's doing better, thank you Jesus.
And that was how I spent my Sunday. It was a good day. Blessings to all.
Thank you for your indulgence,
BassCliff
My friend Josh is the music director at church. We had planned to get to the range after church for a little fun. He bought lunch today, bless him. Then he said, "I forgot my gun." I told him, "No worries, I brought plenty."
Josh was nice enough to also buy another box of 9mm, as well as lunch, so we sent 150 rounds of 9mm and 100 rounds of .22 downrange. We started with the Ronin. Josh really liked it.
It was a totally new gun to him, as were all of these, so I won't show you most of his targets, except maybe where we had planned to go head to head. This was my first target with the Ronin.
Yeah, not great. I'm shooting too fast so I'll slow down a little for the next one.
Yeah, OK, that's a little better. But you know I can do better than that. I hope. Next we worked with the HK VP9. I'm used to shooting 10 shot strings all the time but we pretty much loaded up all the magazines. Here's my target #1.
Yep, we did a lot of patching. Josh was shooting really fast and wide. Here's my second magazine with the VP9.
OK, well, all but one of them are on the 8" circle, at least. Josh got all of his on the silhouette. I told him, "That's good combat accuracy."
Here's Josh dumping a mag from my VP9.
Then we had some plinking fun with my Heritage Rough Rider .22 cowboy gun, single action.
We went head to head on this target. Josh took the head and right shoulder. I took the left shoulder and center mass.
I managed to land all mine inside the 4" circle. Lucky. We had saved just enough 9mm rounds for another head to head. We put 15 on center mass with the VP9, then 10 on the head with the Ronin. This is Josh's target.
I think Josh did better with the head shots than I did. Here's my target, 15 VP9 rounds on center, 10 Ronin rounds on the head.
Josh had to leave the session then but I still had .22 ammo. I started plinking some more until my gun blew up.
The screw came loose on the ejector rod assembly and it launched onto the range. I was able to find all the parts and put everything back together with the little tool kit in my range bag. Maybe some locktite is in order for that ejector rod screw. After reassembly, I stuck on some more small reactive circles and tried to put six hits on each. I think I did pretty good.
I had 16 rounds of .22 left so I just pounded some more on center mass before quitting.
Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, we had procured my favorite lane, #10.
It was a slow afternoon at the range, only one other shooter. But I didn't feel like pulling out my timer for any drills. We were just there to have a bit of fun and let me impart my semi-vapid knowledge of firearms with my friend.
Here ya go, this is what we were doing earlier in the day. There are two links because they are both queued up to the music. We had a rather long "host moment" after the first song, pastor was giving updates on a youngster with cancer. He's doing better, thank you Jesus.
And that was how I spent my Sunday. It was a good day. Blessings to all.
Thank you for your indulgence,
BassCliff
