Looking at the weather, and the fact it’s getting colder (did I mention I HATE cold)…

I decided it was a good day to go to the range.  Since I haven’t had the revolvers out for a spin lately, I decided to take them and just do a revolvers only range trip…

I’d been practicing with the SIRT pistol the last couple of evenings, and I wanted to see if it really made any difference in my initial shooting too.

I’ll admit I did start with the .22 Diamondback, and it is truly a fun little shooter!!!

I alternated shooting ‘good’ triggers e.g. Pythons/Diamondbacks, with the less good triggers 1917/Trooper; and boy can you tell the difference!  I shot at least 50 rounds through each pistol, and realized I’m about out of .45LC and low on .38spl all of a sudden.  And only had TWO boxes of .357… How in hell did I let ‘that’ happen???

Based on my few days of ‘training’ myself with the SIRT, I do believe it can make a difference in maintaining proficiency if you’re not shooting real pistols every day.  I wasn’t as ‘scattered’ as normal on the first few cylinders while trying to re-establish the sight picture, front sight, press sequence.

It was time to change out the self defense ammo in the Agent, so I fired that cylinder full of Gold Dots. And since I hadn’t done any speed loader or speed strip work in a while, I did 10 reps of each.  And boy did I SUCK for the first few…

Practice, especially at the ‘little’ things takes works and repetitions to get it right and I need to find some .38spl snap caps to do this drill at least on a weekly basis, if not more often.

Got home and cleaned everything, then put the ‘ready’ guns back in their ready positions. Now I’m tired, but it’s a good tired.  Now the search for ammo begins again…

Sigh…