Mike Irwin
Member
Those of you who weren't there missed a FUN TIME!
We started off by meeting at Bull Run around noon. Nine total, I believe, with one member showing up later after negotiating one of Northern Virginia's all-too-common traffic jams...
A lot of you have seen the crowing I've done about how well I can shoot wobble trap... I regularly run 22/23 out of 25 in that event.
Well, wobble was jammed today, so we shot 5-stand, which is a sporting clays type game done in a limited space venue, but with really challenging shots.
I got a SEVERE spanking! 8 of 25 the first round and... er... 4 of 25 the second round!
Well, after that we adjourned for a late lunch and then hit the NRA Range for some rifle and handgunning.
Some neat guns, but I think MaxKnight's father Chris wins the neatest gun of the day award! A limited-edition Pedersoli copy of a Remington Rolling Block in .45-70, done up Creedmore style with the heavy wood and Creedmore tangent sight. I would LOVE to get that thing out to a range and work it through its paces from 100 to 1000 yards!
Penguin also brought a very sweet stainless Beretta 96 in .40 that's been worked over. The first time I shot one of those, and it was well worth the experience. EXCELLENT trigger, nice sights, recoil wasn't bad, and as an added exta, Crimson Tide laser grips.
To those of you who didn't make it...
We started off by meeting at Bull Run around noon. Nine total, I believe, with one member showing up later after negotiating one of Northern Virginia's all-too-common traffic jams...
A lot of you have seen the crowing I've done about how well I can shoot wobble trap... I regularly run 22/23 out of 25 in that event.
Well, wobble was jammed today, so we shot 5-stand, which is a sporting clays type game done in a limited space venue, but with really challenging shots.
I got a SEVERE spanking! 8 of 25 the first round and... er... 4 of 25 the second round!
Well, after that we adjourned for a late lunch and then hit the NRA Range for some rifle and handgunning.
Some neat guns, but I think MaxKnight's father Chris wins the neatest gun of the day award! A limited-edition Pedersoli copy of a Remington Rolling Block in .45-70, done up Creedmore style with the heavy wood and Creedmore tangent sight. I would LOVE to get that thing out to a range and work it through its paces from 100 to 1000 yards!
Penguin also brought a very sweet stainless Beretta 96 in .40 that's been worked over. The first time I shot one of those, and it was well worth the experience. EXCELLENT trigger, nice sights, recoil wasn't bad, and as an added exta, Crimson Tide laser grips.
To those of you who didn't make it...