CAJUNLAWYER
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Finished a bit early yesterday and my son was in town. He suggested we go out to the sheriff's range and shoot so we were off.
Among the long guns, as an afterthought we took a 1911 and he had his 9mm. Thinking back to the discolured ammo thread, when scrounging for ammo we came across a bunch of green 230gr ball .45. I said bring it!
Well we got there and had the whole range to ourselves. In the first bay there were three shot up cars, used for gawd only knows. I asked if we could shoot the cars and was given permission and we proceed to have a blast!
Somethin gabout shooting cars and putting holes in sheet metal! We took terns shooting off pieces, conducted "penetration tests" A 45 will go through one car door and out the other. Shooting holes in tires makes for a satisfying hisssssss. Going bang bang bang, and then shouting "stop-police". Shooting sideways gansta style practicing drive by technique...we had a blast.
And that green ammo....worked flawlessly in the Colt 1911.
After we ran out of handgun ammo we went to the rifle range with the mini 14 and a scoped AR15. We had no targets but plinking material. We had fun shooting a Ruger 44/77 and when we ran out of .44's we turned to the "WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION" My son set up a 2 liter coke bottle at 100 yards and when he got back to the bench I did a real chicken**** move. I loaded up two 30 round magazines-one for the mini open sight and one for the scoped AR. Then I bet him $50 that he could not hit the coke bottle before he ran out of ammo.
Well you can't bench rest with a 30 rounder sticking out te bottom so he had to shoot offhand and had not fired either of the rifles in years.
He took the bet and after he went through the 30 rounds on the mini hitting everything BUT the coke bottle he was ctarting to sweat. Didn't help that I was thee doing comentary...WOW that was close-you're getting REAL close-don't give up....
He started in on the AR with scope and was sweating. He finally hit the bottle at shot 20 on the second magazine. I happily paid the $50 we picked up our trash and left. I remembered just how much fun plinking with your son is.
Among the long guns, as an afterthought we took a 1911 and he had his 9mm. Thinking back to the discolured ammo thread, when scrounging for ammo we came across a bunch of green 230gr ball .45. I said bring it!
Well we got there and had the whole range to ourselves. In the first bay there were three shot up cars, used for gawd only knows. I asked if we could shoot the cars and was given permission and we proceed to have a blast!
Somethin gabout shooting cars and putting holes in sheet metal! We took terns shooting off pieces, conducted "penetration tests" A 45 will go through one car door and out the other. Shooting holes in tires makes for a satisfying hisssssss. Going bang bang bang, and then shouting "stop-police". Shooting sideways gansta style practicing drive by technique...we had a blast.
And that green ammo....worked flawlessly in the Colt 1911.
After we ran out of handgun ammo we went to the rifle range with the mini 14 and a scoped AR15. We had no targets but plinking material. We had fun shooting a Ruger 44/77 and when we ran out of .44's we turned to the "WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION" My son set up a 2 liter coke bottle at 100 yards and when he got back to the bench I did a real chicken**** move. I loaded up two 30 round magazines-one for the mini open sight and one for the scoped AR. Then I bet him $50 that he could not hit the coke bottle before he ran out of ammo.
Well you can't bench rest with a 30 rounder sticking out te bottom so he had to shoot offhand and had not fired either of the rifles in years.
He took the bet and after he went through the 30 rounds on the mini hitting everything BUT the coke bottle he was ctarting to sweat. Didn't help that I was thee doing comentary...WOW that was close-you're getting REAL close-don't give up....
He started in on the AR with scope and was sweating. He finally hit the bottle at shot 20 on the second magazine. I happily paid the $50 we picked up our trash and left. I remembered just how much fun plinking with your son is.
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