I feel MUCH better now 🙂
Yesterday I got together with Chris and Laura from Insert Witty Title Here, Newbuis from the Newbuis Papers, R A Bear from Sipsey Street and a couple of their friends for a visit to the NRA Museum, lunch and shoot at the NRA range.
Folks, if you haven’t been to the NRA Museum, it is DEFINITELY worth the trip, an education into what our history with firearms is, and for Chris, it was kid in a candy store time 🙂
Lunch was hilarious, stories abounding, and people just enjoying themselves and as usual, the conversations ranged far and wide, from cooking to movies, to life, to cars, and oh yeah, guns!!!
We headed back over to the range, had about a 1/2 hour wait (better than the 2 hour wait in the morning), but finally got a couple of lanes and started ‘therapy’.
Chris brought a .44 Bulldog, Laura brought her new Rock Island Match 1911 and the Bersa in .380, and Suds had an HK 45 USP (that is one HEAVY pistol).
I screwed up, as I figured since Laura had a .45 she’d be ‘comfortable’ shooting mine, but when I put her on my C&S .45 with 230gr Gold Dots up the pipe, she shot the first round and looked around at me with a really strange expression. She finished off the mag, and we stepped behind the line, and she told me that was the FIRST time she’d ever shot a .45 with full power loads!!!
Note to self- CHECK with folks about their experience…
Chris shot it with no problems (hell, ANYBODY that shoots a Bulldog .44 can handle a .45)!
I ran the target out to 25 yards and brought out the Clark Heavy Slide and handed that one to Laura and she actually got all but 1 round on paper at 25 yards (she had never shot at that range either). She came up with the perfect definition of the stippling on the front strap, she said it looked and felt like a cheese grater after looking at her hand! 🙂
We kept cycling through the pistols, reloading mags and stepping back up and as usual, I did my token head shot miss and ran one round by the right ear… sigh… I CANNOT get through a round without doing that at least once!!!
We were running low on ammo and running out of time, so we decided to call it a day, but I’d call it a GOOD day!
Good food, good friends, good shooting… It doesn’t get any better than that!
And we stepped outside and it was 102 degrees at 6pm… Came home and cleaned guns (the pain after the pleasure)…




