My wife is out of town for the weekend so I took the whole day (75 degrees and sunny) yesterday to shoot. First the rifle range. Jam packed, I didn't know it was "Hunter safety" day. I finally got my 2 rifles sighted in, don't ask how the cheap PSA AR outshot the .223 Mini MK X, a rifle that has shot a 5 shot touching group in the past. Age, mine. Guy on the next lane had a "sniper rifle" of some kind. The muzzle brake was blowing my stuff off the bench. My ears are still ringing. Ran out of ammo (110 rds) because of AR. Moved over to pistol range. Fixed the Ruger MKII that wouldn't chamber rounds by polishing the chamber. 150 flawless rds. Beretta 92 is simply a wonderful machine. Even with the 3 foot D/A pull it made me look good. Same for Model 15, deadly.
The real story was "cold range conversation." Some of it was right outrageous, not just excuses for poor shooting either. Nasty, racist, extremist tripe mixed in with polite and helpful banter. I spent subsequent cold range sweeping up brass so as not to hear.
Other observations:
1) Steel case ammo flew much farther than brass, like 4 lanes down.
2) Steel case ammo tied up 2 AR's several times. One time the case was unable to be dislodged from a $2K LMT rifle.
3) Everybody on the pistol range had a S&W Shield/M&P of some flavor. 4) 4 cops showed up as a group and proceeded to miss their targets at 21 ft with said S&W pistols. They stayed for maybe 10 minutes and seemed insulted when asked to police (pun intended) up their brass. Their mouths were absolutely disgusting. Can't repeat it here, I already have my "bonus point" for the year.
Last; the FWC runs a tight ship. There are zero holes in the overhang, firing line tables or concrete floor, unlike just about every other public range I been to. The RSO's are polite but definitely run a tight ship. One guy did a mag dump and I thought he was in for an actual *** kicking.
I got there a little after 10 am, next time I checked the time it was a little after 3.
Shooting is the best therapy available. I have severe hypertension, take 4 meds for it. I'm usually 170/95 in the evening even with the meds. I took it after cleaning the guns: 126/74, numbers I never see. My machine gave me 2 green lights. Wish I could afford daily outings. $125 for admit/ammo/gas for the 65 mi rd trip is cheaper than going to Dr Boombatz so he can Rx me yet another pill that will work for 3 mos. Really tempted to go back today but I got other things to do. Joe
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