Iowa CCW class report

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FMarlon

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I finished the requirements for my Iowa CCW.

I chose to shoot my SW 6906 for quals since just about everyone else was using 9mm. I just wanted to make the scoring easier on the range officers (not sure the exact method, but for some reason, there were different scoring scales for different calibers).

Never had so much fun shooting in my life!

There was an interesting thing, tho. The only guy who shot a 380 was getting jams like mad. Y'all around here talk about your 380's a lot, so I'd like to know if it is a cheap brand, cheap ammo, or what that causes this?

As far as I know, the jams were Failure to Feed, with a couple stovepipes added in there.

Oh, there was a guy to my left shootin a glock17 and I kept getting pelted with his (HOT!) brass when we were shooting. So much so that I had a case in my left shoe then I got home.

Again, this was so much fun.
 
polk county. the range we use has 5 and 10 yard target holders. So what we did was to use scaled targets to simulate the 15 & 25 yard shots. think this:

2 white sheets of paper sideways touching on top and bottom at 5 yards, then at 10 yards. then one sheet with the long way up and down at 5 and 10. then one sheet folded in half so the long side is up and down at 5 and 10.

The typing paper stuff that i just described was the practice rounds. the 8 ring on the silouette(sp?) targets were the same area as those shets of paper.

Was kinda a cool way to build our confidence. I did fine for most my shots except when the brass from my left would nail me in the face and make me flinch right as I shot. those shots were not so accurate, but still in the 8 ring.:D

Plus it was rainy and windy with lots of lightning and thunder (which the RO called "simulated return fire"):)
 
There was an interesting thing, tho. The only guy who shot a 380 was getting jams like mad. Y'all around here talk about your 380's a lot, so I'd like to know if it is a cheap brand, cheap ammo, or what that causes this?
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What brand of gun? was it a Jennings, a Bryco, or a Lorcin?

(My Baikal Mak has never had a problem, except with my first reloads (underpowered).
 
I've got a Bersa Thunder 380, and usually put 100 rounds through it when I take it to the range. The only problem I've ever had (I'm up to about 600 rounds total) was in the first box of 50 - one round stovepiped. I usually feed it FMJ from a variety of manufacturers (PMC, Wolf, S&B, maybe more). It has had maybe 50 - 100 rounds of JHP through it, and they also had no problems.
 
FMarlon, I assume you were at Butch Olafson. By any chance were you at the far right (temporary) shooting station? I requalified out there in March, and got that position. It's a little closer to the next guy than it should be. I was shooting a 6" GP100 with a fibre optic front sight, loaded with 38+P. The guy to my left had a bottom feeder of some kind. My first two shots were in the ten ring. Just before I squeezed off the third shot double action one of my neighbor's ejected rounds hit me on the head causing me to jerk the next shot into the nine ring. That kept up through all through the rounds. I shot 100%, but since we never actually shot over ten yards it was an ugly 100%.

Two years ago when I requalified we did shoot at 7, 10 15 and 25 yards. We had wind gusts up to 50 mph. It was blowing targets off of backers, backers off of stands, and even blowin target stands over. That was lots of fun.
 
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