range trip for and old man and his revolver

[ky wonder]

Yesterday afternoon it was in the 60 degree range here,

so my kids (son 31, daughter 32, LEO son in law 33) decided on a range trip to shoot up some of my ammo. been a long time since any range work so I was up for the trip

so off to the falling plate range at Rockcastle shooting center here in central KY

I had bought my wife a new Glock 380 for Christmas, and recently had added a new Ruger American to the stable, so for the most part we took Tupperware autos, Ruger, Glocks 42,17L,19, , and old German PP in 380, and my early S&W 649 38 only, with the short barrel that rides my belt on such outings. had 500 rds. of 9mm, and 300 rds. of 380, and 10 rds. of 38 spl. , (full revolver and 1 speed loader, 128grain +p hollow points)

so we decided on the bay with the 6" plate racks

for the most part I set at the table and was the designated mag loader, and rack rope guy, (since both my knees are bad,) as they sent my money down range, and we were all very decent shots at the closer ranges, we started out at abut 10 yds. and progressed back in 10 yard intervals

finally reaching the 50 yds. mark, at that point the plates were winning as often as the shooters, including myself with the autos including the 6 inch 17L

so at the end I was disgusted with my lack of shooting ability with the plastic guns so I took out the little stainless j frame revolver form its resting place on my hip.

it seemed to smile at me as I aligned the front sight of that short barrel in the frame cut notch rear sight as if it was saying " old friend I've got your back!

setting there in that chair, shooting off hand at 50 yards I placed those sights at 6 o'clock on those plates and each time the Smith spoke a plate fell , 5 shots and 5 hits with a cold gun.

the guys got to ragging me about it being luck.

so I reloaded and did it again, now I was out of bullets for the 38, and as I replaced the empty pistol in its holster it seemed to whisper to me "you've missed me, haven't you!

so I have set here and remembered what and old timer told me once " I would rather hit something six times than miss it 17, so I just ordered a case of 38 ammo,

 

[LedFowl]

Well done. You've inspired me to include my model 36 in tomorrow's range adventure.

 

[charlie sherrill]

I ate lunch yesterday with two old retired LEO friends, Inv. Nelvil and Chief Mark. We ate lunch at our favorite Greasy Greek Gut Grenade café and sat in the "Booth Of Honor" which is adorned by old LEO pictures. One of mine taken back in the early 70's is included. The plan was to do a little gun swapping and then come down to my little farm and do some plinking. We managed to eat lunch but unfortunately Chief Mark had to leave and go attend the unexpected arrival of his first grand child. Baby and mother are doing fine. We were able to make some trades in the parking lot before Chief Mark left and Inv. Nelvil and I came on down and tried out some of the new purchases. Mark loaned us his Wilson Combat even though he couldn't come. It has a very sensitive trigger and actually double tapped once while Inv. Nelvil was shooting it. I had warned him about this as it happened to me when I shot it about ten years ago. We then ran a few mags through Inv. Nelvils S&W Performance Center 1911. In my opinion, thes are two of the finest shooting 1911's around.

Inv. Nelvil had picked up a 7 shot 6" 686, wartless of course, and we put a few .38's and .357's through this one. I brought along a 8 3/8" mod. 14-3. I love to shoot this gun and had owned one previously before I reluctantly sold it to my brother. I found this one and it ain't going anywhere. We had brought along several other handguns and after a couple of hours we decided we had more than we wanted to clean. We finished up the session by shooting my old 4 screw pre-17. I really like this one because I can quickly fill up a target shooting it double action. We're going to do this again in the near future. Maybe by then Chief Mark will be used to being a new Grandpaw and join in the fun.