woo hoo! Finally got to go to the range about an hour away and try out my new (new to me...) Glock 19. It's a police range only open to the public once per month and I met Ala Dan up there this morning. It was too cool. Dan told me about it and invited to meet him there today. ANother TFLer was there but I don't know his nick...
The Lieutenant who runs the place put me through a short safety and operation of my handgun demonstration sort of thing, which was informative. Now, I know how to take the thing apart, for example, which I never knew before and know more ways to do a tac reload sort of thing than I did before. He also gave me some dummy rounds in case I want to practice some manipulations with them later and some ear plugs. Very nice folks there!
Apparently, the Lieutenant was quite entertained by me...
a female [Aren't all those liberal gun haters?],
university professor [aren't all those liberal gun haters]...
single professional woman [didn't all those vote for Gore and read the Ms Forums?]
who not only owns a gun, but has taken the time to get a bit of training before and showed up with multiple 15 round mags and a lot of ammo... and a Jesus Loves You decal on her gun bag. I think the amount of ammo in my bag was the clincher. He laughed and said... "you are destroying a bunch of stereotypes..."
Of course, they say you default to your level of training and I did find myself automatically doing practically everything the way I was taught back in November in the ladies only handgun course, which is good... I haven't forgot quite as much as I thought! [Thanks Randy!]
Anyhow, shot about 50 rounds at 15 yards (which was where everyone was at... nothing like shooting with some LEOs who practically hit the same spot every time to remind me that my shooting needs a ton of work). It wasn't too pretty, but could have been worse.
Here's the target. Yes, we were using paper plates. Some nice guy had those out there and put them up on our target stands for us.
The results are not great, but it was worse in November as I recall. I still tend to be a bit left and low. Anticipating... I did get better as the day went on, though.
At first, I was thinking I'd need to get a grip reduction done as the trigger felt so far away to me... but that feeling got better in the later shooting. The jury is still out on that. I bought a used 19 because I didn't want the finger groove thingies in the grip which make it seem even bigger to me.
Then, we went to 7 yards and changed to a Q target (they were out of B-28s or somesuch, whatever those are...) and did another 50 rounds or so.
That turned out a little better. A few of those grouped near the Q were from when the Lieutenant was trying out my pistol. He shot it there and a few times on another target and determined it sights just a bit to the left. Gotta find someone to adjust that.
Only one malfunction was experienced. Once the spent brass failed to clear the gun as the slide cycled and it got stuck in the opening. Ala Dan talked to me about rack-tap-bang then. I don't know if that was caused by me, or the ammo, or the mag.
I have 3 mags. All 15 rounders and of various ages and wear, etc. One of them just doesn't feel right to me (not that I have a clue!) and it was the one in use when the above happened. I have trouble getting some individual rounds pushed all the way to the back on it as I load it up. This is the oldest of the mags, i bought it online, used.
Another interesting detail, the brass flies almost straight over my head and slightly to the right. I mean ever so SLIGHTLY. One round hit me in the forehead. Once I sorta got in a groove and was shooting fairly rapidly and a bit more accurately near the end, I noticed several rounds in a row went right over my head THROUGH my hair like they were running down the part in my hair from front to back. That was a funky feeling!
All in all, a good morning. Too bad it will be eons before I can go shoot again!
Have a wonderful day!
Amelia-the-happy-camper
The Lieutenant who runs the place put me through a short safety and operation of my handgun demonstration sort of thing, which was informative. Now, I know how to take the thing apart, for example, which I never knew before and know more ways to do a tac reload sort of thing than I did before. He also gave me some dummy rounds in case I want to practice some manipulations with them later and some ear plugs. Very nice folks there!
Apparently, the Lieutenant was quite entertained by me...
a female [Aren't all those liberal gun haters?],
university professor [aren't all those liberal gun haters]...
single professional woman [didn't all those vote for Gore and read the Ms Forums?]
who not only owns a gun, but has taken the time to get a bit of training before and showed up with multiple 15 round mags and a lot of ammo... and a Jesus Loves You decal on her gun bag. I think the amount of ammo in my bag was the clincher. He laughed and said... "you are destroying a bunch of stereotypes..."
Of course, they say you default to your level of training and I did find myself automatically doing practically everything the way I was taught back in November in the ladies only handgun course, which is good... I haven't forgot quite as much as I thought! [Thanks Randy!]
Anyhow, shot about 50 rounds at 15 yards (which was where everyone was at... nothing like shooting with some LEOs who practically hit the same spot every time to remind me that my shooting needs a ton of work). It wasn't too pretty, but could have been worse.
Here's the target. Yes, we were using paper plates. Some nice guy had those out there and put them up on our target stands for us.
The results are not great, but it was worse in November as I recall. I still tend to be a bit left and low. Anticipating... I did get better as the day went on, though.
At first, I was thinking I'd need to get a grip reduction done as the trigger felt so far away to me... but that feeling got better in the later shooting. The jury is still out on that. I bought a used 19 because I didn't want the finger groove thingies in the grip which make it seem even bigger to me.
Then, we went to 7 yards and changed to a Q target (they were out of B-28s or somesuch, whatever those are...) and did another 50 rounds or so.
That turned out a little better. A few of those grouped near the Q were from when the Lieutenant was trying out my pistol. He shot it there and a few times on another target and determined it sights just a bit to the left. Gotta find someone to adjust that.
Only one malfunction was experienced. Once the spent brass failed to clear the gun as the slide cycled and it got stuck in the opening. Ala Dan talked to me about rack-tap-bang then. I don't know if that was caused by me, or the ammo, or the mag.
I have 3 mags. All 15 rounders and of various ages and wear, etc. One of them just doesn't feel right to me (not that I have a clue!) and it was the one in use when the above happened. I have trouble getting some individual rounds pushed all the way to the back on it as I load it up. This is the oldest of the mags, i bought it online, used.
Another interesting detail, the brass flies almost straight over my head and slightly to the right. I mean ever so SLIGHTLY. One round hit me in the forehead. Once I sorta got in a groove and was shooting fairly rapidly and a bit more accurately near the end, I noticed several rounds in a row went right over my head THROUGH my hair like they were running down the part in my hair from front to back. That was a funky feeling!
All in all, a good morning. Too bad it will be eons before I can go shoot again!
Have a wonderful day!
Amelia-the-happy-camper