Interesting day at the firing range....

Ok, ladies, I'm 58, and I didn't start shooting until I was over 50, so if I can do it you can do it. I started on a lady smith, which is a revolver, it's a .38 caliber, but you can also use a much bigger bullet, a 357 magnum. When I got together with hubbie, who is a shooter, he got me an old bolt action military surplus Sweedish Mauser, which is a 308 caliber, which I really like shooting. It's big enough to take down a deer, and I didn't find it hard to use. Then he got me an Ishapore, which is another 308, (a long big bullet), another military surplus rifle that is bolt action, with a clip, which is also fun to shoot, it's well balanced enough that I can handle it standing up no trouble, and probably take down a deer with it if I had to do so.

I've been working on using an automatic without the thing jamming, I have a .45 semi automatic handgun, a Taurus, but I still have a lot of trouble with it because I keep jamming the loads. We've barrowed a 22 rifle that's an semi auto that I practice on, because the ammunition is so much cheaper that I can shoot it all day long, without feeling guilty.

Shooting is not like on TV, where you just point the sidearm, and the thing you are shooting at falls over, there is a lot that happens which isn't very cinematic. Like jammed loads, clips that don't work, ammunition that doesn't fire, days when no matter what you do, you can't get anything anywhere near a target, and times when you show up to the range, and NOTHING works whatsoever. (That's embarassing.)
We didn't spend an awful lot of money on any of the rifles we have, they were old military surplus rifles that we picked up cheap because no one wanted them, and we fixed them up. It was fun today, I out shoot a young guy shooting a bushmaster (which is a automatic, lots of bullets everytime you pull the trigger) at 100 yard with a 60 year old rifle using iron sites. (No scope.) I got the bolling pins at 100 years and he shoot a lot of bullets around them.

His teacher had this set up:

http://www.tacticalrifles.net/tactical_m40_300.asp

with an sufficiently exotic arrangement that the range officers had to call somewhere to make sure he was legal. I guess I shot OK, because he let me fire it.
........

Julie






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