Oops! Plate Match Pics from today!

As Jeffersonian promised...

Me, taking aim with my GP100, smoke courtesy of 9 gn's Blue Dot. The glove is there to protect my hand from recoil. I still ended up with a sore hand, but no blister this time. Oh, and I'm not flinching in this photo, I'm right handed and left eye dominant...weird, I know.

Knock'in down plates, smoke, again, courtesy of 9 gn's Blue Dot.

Placing pumpkins for the slaughter...

Making pie...

Exploding pumpkins, photo courtesy of Jeffersonian.

Plate Match Today!

Well, it's that time of the month again. Wish me luck, or not...

Today after the match, in true holiday style, we get to shoot pumpkins off the plate stands! :-) Sounds like a blast (pun intended)!

The reason I'm up this early is I'm helping Jeffersonian get the pumpkins before the match and he doesn't have the room in his car for them all.

Oh, and NRA, if you're reading this...I still haven't received my wheelbarrow full of cash yet...

Yuri's sister goes shooting.

She's never touched a gun in her life until yesterday let alone shoot one.

I gifted her with a free range trip for her birthday, and to my surprise she accepted. Previously, she has been ambivalent to against guns.

After giving her safety and technical instruction, we left for the range. At the range we went back over the technical aspects (she read the range safety rules on arrival) and I set her up with my Ruger 22/45 with the Red Dot on it. I did let her shoot my Ruger GP100 with light .357 Magnum loads in it, but she didn't really like the extra recoil compared to the 22/45. To her credit though, she did shoot all six shots.

We went through over 300 rounds of .22lr and I shot about 50 rounds of .357 Magnum while I was there. I would have shot more, but I was busy loading magazines for her.

After we were done and on the way home she told me she had had a great time, and would like to do it again. She even called her husband and told him about it and he wants to come down next time and go to the range with me too. :-)

Guys, take your friends and family to the range and let them shoot, they'll have a blast and come away from the experience with a different attitude toward shooting and guns.

Yuri Gets a Red Dot

Tired of getting his ass served to him at the steel plate match, Yuri went and got a Bushnell Red/Green Dot scope (Sportsman's Warehouse) and mounted it to his Ruger Mark II 22/45 with a Wegand Combat no gunsmith scope mount from Mounts Plus. This only requires drifting out the rear sight and inserting a mounting block. Two 1/16 ball end hex key, set screws lock it down and the mounting rail is screwed down on top of it. A little lock-tite keeps everything secure.

As evidenced by this video, the accuracy that is achievable is incredible. Yuri is using the 3 MOA dot in this clip, at a distance of up to 17 yards (42 feet).