Navy joe
August 12, 2003, 10:32 PM
First, a moment of silence for my Eastpak backpack. It's been with me since 1993 and has been my well used overloaded range bag for 3 years. The main zipper died, guess I'll have to stop being heart-broken and buy an I-Shot.
With my Glocks it was the first time in about 6 months that I have put a non-scoring shot on paper at 25 yds with my G34. I could feel the flinch coming before I fired, and did it anyway. Had to set the gun down for a while. Still shot a 219/250 on a B8. Redeemed myself a little before I left with a 229.
That wasn't the weird part, just me being mediocre. The weird is that I found the last guy on earth that didn't know about Glocks vs. lead reloads. He seemed pretty competent so I left him alone, but while picking up my brass I look at some of his. Nice looking TZZ .45 case, with a 1/16" high feed ramp area shaped bulge. I introduced myself with "Excuse me; it's really none of my business, but you are about to remodel your face." :evil: Turns out the guy had already blown up a Glock to the point where it cracked the slide and Glock had replaced it for 300 bucks. He had no clue about lead. Worse yet, he had no clue that a bulge like that or flat primers might just be a clue that something was up. "I'm loading on a progressive so I don't know how I'd get a double charge" When that possibility came up. Siad he was cleaning with WD40, but might have to get some solvent to get the lead out.
Yikes. If you got shooting buddies that seem to know what they are doing, don't assume the same. Know that they are competent, a safe shooter won't take umbrage to being asked a seemingly basic question that pertains to safety. I was scared to ask the guy if he knew what OAL meant. Thank Heavens he wasn't restuffing .40, and thank the same for bulletproof glass partitions at the range.
With my Glocks it was the first time in about 6 months that I have put a non-scoring shot on paper at 25 yds with my G34. I could feel the flinch coming before I fired, and did it anyway. Had to set the gun down for a while. Still shot a 219/250 on a B8. Redeemed myself a little before I left with a 229.
That wasn't the weird part, just me being mediocre. The weird is that I found the last guy on earth that didn't know about Glocks vs. lead reloads. He seemed pretty competent so I left him alone, but while picking up my brass I look at some of his. Nice looking TZZ .45 case, with a 1/16" high feed ramp area shaped bulge. I introduced myself with "Excuse me; it's really none of my business, but you are about to remodel your face." :evil: Turns out the guy had already blown up a Glock to the point where it cracked the slide and Glock had replaced it for 300 bucks. He had no clue about lead. Worse yet, he had no clue that a bulge like that or flat primers might just be a clue that something was up. "I'm loading on a progressive so I don't know how I'd get a double charge" When that possibility came up. Siad he was cleaning with WD40, but might have to get some solvent to get the lead out.
Yikes. If you got shooting buddies that seem to know what they are doing, don't assume the same. Know that they are competent, a safe shooter won't take umbrage to being asked a seemingly basic question that pertains to safety. I was scared to ask the guy if he knew what OAL meant. Thank Heavens he wasn't restuffing .40, and thank the same for bulletproof glass partitions at the range.