A few of us got together at NRA today for a mini shoot, in attendance were The Miller and his son, Bus Error, New Jovian Thunderbolt, Newbius and myself. A couple of others couldn’t make it due to work/other reasons…
I got there at 0800, figuring a half hour early would be fine, but NOooo… I was about 20th in line… NJT, Miller and his son were there at 0730 and were about 4th in line (OBTW, they don’t even OPEN until 0830).
After sign in, they gave us three lanes, and a hard one hour stop, as there was a waiting list, and reminded us NO PICTURES… sigh…
Anyhoo, we set up proceeded to shoot a WIDE variety of weapons… I “think” NJT actually kept track. On a funny note, NJT asked me to watch him and see if I could see what he was doing wrong, so I handed off a pistol to Newbius and got behind NJT- He promptly proceeded to keep em all in the black, looked around at me and shrugged…
I told him I WAS NOT going to stand behind him every time just so he could get it right…
NJT tried the FN Tac 45 with the Trijicon optic and turned around and said, “This is so easy, it’s boring”…
Note to self- When you practice mag changes, KEEP YOUR FRIKKIN FINGER OUT OF THE WAY… Magazines WILL seat even if part of your finger happens to be in the way, and blood gets everywhere… sigh…
We got done about to the minute (I was still cleaning up the lane when the next group started setting up), and cleaned up and adjourned to the NRA museum for a walkthrough. They had changed a few exhibits since the last visit, so I was trying to find all the ‘new’ stuff since the last trip…
A couple are shown below…
Ironically, Bloviating Zepplin put up a video of this very gun today, so HERE is the link to see the video about it- This is the Lewis and Clarke Air Gun…
And for all you Serenity fans… Fillion’s pistol! Based on a Taurus of all things… sigh…
Old NFO, nice meeting you today at the blog shoot. And thanks for accompanying me up to NOVA Arms and backing me up in the bullet weight/barrel twist discussion. oh, and letting me put my grubby paws on your fine firearms.
We’ll have to do that again.
I like that silver Colt. You could kill a Werewolf with it, too.
Saturday next time?
Always good to shoot, and see firearms you would never otherwise.
Video is great for finding flaws in style.
Andy- Not a problem 🙂 And yes we do!
Elm- That too! 🙂 And it was PURTY!!!
Me- Sounds good!
Earl- Yep, trigger time helps! We were all shooting MUCH better at the end!
I was wiping the drool off a couple of the cases in the museum… Video works wonders, problem is no filming in there (don’t know why).
Great post! Thanks
Great time. Nice meeting you finally!
I liked the JFK Colt.
How is your finger?
SS- Thanks
JB- Same here, we have to do that again!
Fuzzy- It was a pretty one, the finger is fine, a little super glue and a bandaid work wonders 🙂
Drop me a note next time. I’m down at Belvoir.
PA- Will do!
Sounds like you all had a good time 🙂 Even if it was only an hour of shooty goodness
The Firefly Illustrated Companion books have a lot of info on that gun and all of the others in Firefly and Serenity.
Julie- ANY range time is good time 🙂
Poppa- You are correct Sir, but that happened to be one of the guns featured in the movie guns exhibit
Always good to shoot, and see firearms you would never otherwise.
Nice collection, love the Serenity pistol, great movie.