Hippie day at the Range

I brought 11 New people to Richmond Rod and Gun. Brought a slew of pistols and rifles, 9 guns between 12 people. We got there around 11 am. I spent the first 20 min going over the 4 rules and basic pistol operation. Then I let each of them fire 2 rounds from the ruger mk II. Then 2 rounds from the XD40. Then they got split up, with some shooting my friend's 22 lr target rifle, some shooting the XD's, and some the ruger MK II. For the adventurous in the bunch (which all turned out to be) I let shoot my antique Mosin M-39 (with Mojo aperature sights). Once every one was pretty well situated with good safety habits, I gave one on one sessions regarding sight alignment, trigger control, the "suprise break", grip, and stance. After teaching 10 newbies how to overcome the dreaded "flinch" I'd say my teaching ability has improved considerably.
My friend took all the rifles over to the hundred yard line and supervised them, while I watched the pistol shooters. The gender split was 70/30 gals and guys, only two had handled firearms before today. The most "fun" gun was a four-way-tie between my friends FAL, my Mosin, his 22 target rifle, and my XD40. Considering the posse was a bunch of granola chomping berkeley hippies, several told me I really changed their minds about 'crazy gun nuts'. One yoga person commented after I explained proper breathing for long range rifle, "She didn't know how "in touch" shooters have to be with their bodies to shoot well." To keep it fun for every one (including poor UC-Berkeley students), I let them shoot as much 40 S&W, 22 lr, and 7.62x54R, as they wanted, gratis. The 7.62x51 they bought from the range, 5 dollars for 20 (most wanted at least 20 rds out of the FAL).
Good times were had by all, people left with the same number of holes they came with, and maybe a few will be far more reluctant to believe the gun control nonsense spouted by the likes of Don Perata.
Will post pics later.

atek3

hey, its a saturday, whateva', I do what I want.


atek3

During my time as a college student I lived in a "co-op" with 127 students. I no longer live there but still remain very connected to my old house. One house member hearafter refered to as "<blank> the maoist" wanted to go shooting. I said, "you organize a posse, collect the money, I'll provide the guns and instruction." So we'd origionally planned it for two weekends ago but it rained, so we postponed it til yesterday. I was suprised how many people actually ended up attending. Usually how things work around there is 40 people are interested, 20 people promise to come, 10 people show up, 5 of which flake, so 10 people was a fantastic attendance.
So here's a funny. <blank>, the organizer is a wannabe maoist... not the harmful, "lets kill the people with glasses kind," more like the "lets donate money to support the children in nepal kind." But since he's a maoist i call him, "<blank> the Maoist." and I call this other dude, "<blank> the ISO socialist." I wore my shirt that says, "THE EXPERTS AGREE, <hammer and sickle>, <swastika>, <red star of china>, GUN CONTROL WORKS."
They all liked it

After shooting we went to In and Out and discussed free markets (i'm a capitalist) versus government control (most of them weren't) while having burgers.

atek3

As they are college students no one was like, I'm going out to get a glock tomorrow. But they want to go back, "first you get them hooked when its free."
The only reason I was so generous is a) wolf, milsurp, and 22lr are cheap b) I was the only one with a good paying job and money to spend on gun nuttery.

Oh ya, XD40's and wolf ammo, bad combo, got maybe 10 FTF out of 700 rounds fired. The jam was caused by the bullet tip hanging up on the feed ramp.

atek3

my enter, shift, and tab buttons don't work so thats why i write superparagraphs.

Atek3