Are you a handgun, rifle, shotgun or machinegun person?
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I find handguns the most entertaining and satisfying to shoot. They are also highly suitable for indoor ranges. In another life,I was able to impress my friends by picking roaches off the wall with their airsoft pistols.
Rifles are difficult for me to shoot past a couple hundred yards. Plinking offhand close by isn't the same as firing a high powered centerfire off a bench at long range. I'm probably doing everything wrong. However, I almost never get to shoot anyways, and I probably can't find enough rimfire to take a class. And I don't really have a suitable rifle anyways.
I might be a shotgun guy if I could do it affordably. I can't.
Machine guns are a sad joke. I might be able to afford a to run a few magazines through a rental if I save up, but that's it. Seriously, the absolute cheapest transferable costs as much as a rather nice used car. That's bucks. And then anything interesting is likely several tens of thousands of dollars. And that's today's prices. Short of winning a Powerball, I'll likely never own one. I'll be lucky enough to fire one.
Rifles are difficult for me to shoot past a couple hundred yards. Plinking offhand close by isn't the same as firing a high powered centerfire off a bench at long range. I'm probably doing everything wrong. However, I almost never get to shoot anyways, and I probably can't find enough rimfire to take a class. And I don't really have a suitable rifle anyways.
I might be a shotgun guy if I could do it affordably. I can't.
Machine guns are a sad joke. I might be able to afford a to run a few magazines through a rental if I save up, but that's it. Seriously, the absolute cheapest transferable costs as much as a rather nice used car. That's bucks. And then anything interesting is likely several tens of thousands of dollars. And that's today's prices. Short of winning a Powerball, I'll likely never own one. I'll be lucky enough to fire one.
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Depends on my mood.
Sometimes I like hitting little bitty things a long ways away. Sometimes I like blasting away and making lots of noise and laughing about what we hit (or don't hit).
Machine guns are always interesting, though I've never actually shot one. I have the feeling it would be like my kids wanting to ride in the front seat... it's "fun" because of it's novelty but would soon wear to "ho hum".
I can definitively say that I have more fun with handguns. Fun of the "Woo hoo!" kind, anyway. Rifles are fun for the skill and precision at distance.
Sometimes I like hitting little bitty things a long ways away. Sometimes I like blasting away and making lots of noise and laughing about what we hit (or don't hit).
Machine guns are always interesting, though I've never actually shot one. I have the feeling it would be like my kids wanting to ride in the front seat... it's "fun" because of it's novelty but would soon wear to "ho hum".
I can definitively say that I have more fun with handguns. Fun of the "Woo hoo!" kind, anyway. Rifles are fun for the skill and precision at distance.
I am most definitely a rifle guy, and have been for quite a while. For me I think it's partly because it's just easier for me to hit what I'm aiming at with rifles. Hand me a good rifle and I feel like I can just hit anything. Hand me a handgun and it's really a crap shoot whether or not I hit anything beyond 25 yards.
As for shotguns I'm not too into them, but my mossberg 590 is still pretty fun to shoot.
I've gotten a decent amount of range time with various machineguns in the military, and they can be quite fun to shoot. However outside of that I don't have much interest in owning/shooting them. It's just not as fun to me sending a wall of lead down range as opposed to taking my time and shooting slow.
As for shotguns I'm not too into them, but my mossberg 590 is still pretty fun to shoot.
I've gotten a decent amount of range time with various machineguns in the military, and they can be quite fun to shoot. However outside of that I don't have much interest in owning/shooting them. It's just not as fun to me sending a wall of lead down range as opposed to taking my time and shooting slow.
I prefer competition shotgun events. You have to figure out what the target setter has done and then how to approach it and hit those moving targets. You have about 20 seconds to formulate a plan, focus, and then execute it flawlessly. Since every club is different, you never see the same target presentation anywhere. Makes one use their brain as well as their hands and eyes.
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