OK, accidentally posted without finishing the post, so here's the edit.
Last year we ran this competition and had enough fun to do it again. A competition where everyone brings their gun with enough ammo for everyone else to shoot a shot group with that gun. The person with the worst group get's the beautiful traveling trophy to proudly display in their office. The traveling trophy moved on to a different person, and that person was not me. I shot the best again this year.
This year, I actually got to shoot an M1911A1 that I got from the CMP, so there was lots of nostalgia. I shot the best group. The winner of the trophy shot a 22" group, which was reminiscent of how some of the soldiers would shoot.
Why? The back story (from last year's post): Back in the day, every so often our platoon would be tasked with running the pistol qualification range for the battalion. Our sidearm for most tankers at the time were old(ish) 1911A1's, which had seen some use. The slides would rattle a little. Anyway, invariably we would have newer shooters who would shoot and shot gun 45 Cal at the target, coming no where near qualifying expert. Invariably, they would blame the gun. "How can they expect us to hit anything with these pieces of junk?". My platoon sergeant would grab a magazine, lock and load, and proceed to put them all in the black in rapid fire, and hand the pistol back to the private, with the only comment - "It's you."
Another fun day at the range.
Last year we ran this competition and had enough fun to do it again. A competition where everyone brings their gun with enough ammo for everyone else to shoot a shot group with that gun. The person with the worst group get's the beautiful traveling trophy to proudly display in their office. The traveling trophy moved on to a different person, and that person was not me. I shot the best again this year.
This year, I actually got to shoot an M1911A1 that I got from the CMP, so there was lots of nostalgia. I shot the best group. The winner of the trophy shot a 22" group, which was reminiscent of how some of the soldiers would shoot.
Why? The back story (from last year's post): Back in the day, every so often our platoon would be tasked with running the pistol qualification range for the battalion. Our sidearm for most tankers at the time were old(ish) 1911A1's, which had seen some use. The slides would rattle a little. Anyway, invariably we would have newer shooters who would shoot and shot gun 45 Cal at the target, coming no where near qualifying expert. Invariably, they would blame the gun. "How can they expect us to hit anything with these pieces of junk?". My platoon sergeant would grab a magazine, lock and load, and proceed to put them all in the black in rapid fire, and hand the pistol back to the private, with the only comment - "It's you."
Another fun day at the range.
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