You Never Forget Your First Time

[38superman]

It was turning into a crappy day at the local club match.

With two stages remaining, I broke an extractor on my 2011 and was done.

Since I had a little extra time to kill, I wandered over to the rifle ranges just to see what was happening.

On the first range a small but dedicated group was shooting antique single shot falling block guns.

This was on a sillouette range with targets out to 500 yards.

It looked like they had raided Matthew Quigley's gun safe.

They seemed to be having a good time, but not my cup of tea... Time to wander on.

Next stop, the 100 yard range complete with wind flags every 25 yds.

There I found a solitary gentleman who was carefully assembling 6mm PPC loads.

His custom bench gun waited in the hi-tech, joy stick operated rest.

I struck up a converstation and after a few minutes he offered me a 5 round group.

I'm a lefty and he was set up to shoot right handed, but whatever, I'm game.

Before he gave me any ammo he said I should dry fire it to get the feel for the trigger.

It broke cleanly at 1 ounce.

I pulled the first round about 1/4" high and left.

The next four went into one ragged hole.

Fun stuff.

Different kind of game, but accuracy in its purest form is very cool.

Tls

Edited May 24, 2012 by 38superman