A friend of mine found out she has a half brother about a year ago. He came from Germany to visit her for a couple of weeks. Not too surprisingly one of the things he really wanted to do was go shooting.
I packed a pretty healthy arsenal and took them and a few other friends out today. My girl friends ex came along with his pretty healthy arsenal too. We shot everything from .22lr to 500S&W and 30-06 (Garand). We had a great time and I was impressed at how well he shot. Evidently they both had target shooting class in middle school back in Russia. (Imagine that!)
It had been about 6 months since I have been out. My 5" light weight 50ae Desert Eagle was a lot more recoil than I had remembered. My friends 500 S&W had a lot less recoil than I had remembered. I had loaded full power 50ae and my friend had some pretty sissy 500 S&W ammo. The last time I shot his 500 S&W he had full power Buffalo Boar elephant rounds in it and I put it down after the first round. Today the 500 S&W was very enjoyable to shoot. I shot the 2 1/2" snub barrel on my Dan Wesson 744 for the first time. I prefer the 4" barrel but the 2.5" wasn't as snappy as I had thought is might be. I also shot a Double Tap in 9mm for the first time and it wasn't near the recoil that I had feared. The Double Tap was definitely the hardest recoiling of the guns we had today. I had always thought about getting one in .45acp. Maybe I might pick up a double tap in one of the two calibers some day.
After seeing how much our foreign visitor enjoyed shooting the huge variety of guns that we had brought with us it made me appreciate our 2nd amendment rights just a bit more than usual today.
I packed a pretty healthy arsenal and took them and a few other friends out today. My girl friends ex came along with his pretty healthy arsenal too. We shot everything from .22lr to 500S&W and 30-06 (Garand). We had a great time and I was impressed at how well he shot. Evidently they both had target shooting class in middle school back in Russia. (Imagine that!)
It had been about 6 months since I have been out. My 5" light weight 50ae Desert Eagle was a lot more recoil than I had remembered. My friends 500 S&W had a lot less recoil than I had remembered. I had loaded full power 50ae and my friend had some pretty sissy 500 S&W ammo. The last time I shot his 500 S&W he had full power Buffalo Boar elephant rounds in it and I put it down after the first round. Today the 500 S&W was very enjoyable to shoot. I shot the 2 1/2" snub barrel on my Dan Wesson 744 for the first time. I prefer the 4" barrel but the 2.5" wasn't as snappy as I had thought is might be. I also shot a Double Tap in 9mm for the first time and it wasn't near the recoil that I had feared. The Double Tap was definitely the hardest recoiling of the guns we had today. I had always thought about getting one in .45acp. Maybe I might pick up a double tap in one of the two calibers some day.
After seeing how much our foreign visitor enjoyed shooting the huge variety of guns that we had brought with us it made me appreciate our 2nd amendment rights just a bit more than usual today.
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