I’ve got a couple of months worth of gun updates to catch up on.
I joined the Eastern Nebraska Gun Club on October 15th. I haven’t been able to go shoot there yet, but I’m planning on going this weekend. There’s a monthly USPSA Practical Pistol match and an HP Rifle Silhouette match on Sunday. I’m thinking of going to watch. Not sure if the pistol match will take up all of the pistol ranges or not.
I bought a 135-count case of clay pigeons for $9 and a clay target thrower for about $25 to practice trap shooting with my shotgun. I’ll probably give it a shot this weekend on the trap range.
In September I took and passed a concealed carry course given by Omaha Concealed Carry. I had a good time and learned a few things.
By now I’ve fired off another few hundred rounds of 9mm through my pistol since the last time I posted an update (not all at once though). Not a single FTE (failure to extract), which gives me far more confidence in my Taurus PT111. I think it is finally broken in, or it likes the ammo I’m using better, or I’m cleaning it better, or I’m handling the recoil better, or some combination of these. Oh, and it also turns out that the reason my pistol was shooting low was me, not the gun. My CCW instructor noticed I was anticipating recoil, jerking the trigger and therefore the muzzle downward before the shot went off. I’ll have to work on that.
For eye candy, to tide you over until I post pictures of my guns, here are two targets I shot with #3 buck at 20 ft. One target took 10 shells, the other 15. Not bad for my first time shooting my shotgun, eh? The bigger holes you see in odd places are the shot wad or shot cup following the buckshot into the target.
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