Highlights

Highlights, from this past Saturday, at the Bracken Range.

• Take a wild shot in the dark as to who managed to leave his directions to the range at home... give ya a hint, look at my blog title...
  

• Well, at least I still know that my 'navigation by guesstimation' still works, more-or-less.

• I still called, though.
  

• The first thing that we did when we were paid up at the range office, guns on the table, range hot was... grab our cameras.

• Perhaps the best benefit of shooting a Glock with a 56.43 lb trigger pull is when you shoot that Kimber 'Big Sexy' by merely looking lustily at it. It was like buttah...

• Shooting that CZ-52 made me want to do my Tim Allen man-laugh.
  

• I wasn't entirely sure that I was actually shooting those .22s, but there were cute little holes appearing in the paper, so I was happy.

• I really should get me some .22s...

• And a CZ-52.

• And a Kimber 'Big Sexy'.

• I think a laser might be good for a few training applications, but I'm afraid that (for me) too much of it would wind up with me looking like one of my mom's cats, just chasing it round and round...

• It's probably not just me, but I like to see all kindsa folks at the range. White, black, old-timers, whipper-snappers, church youth, cops, good ole boys, military, men, wimmen, and... was that family sikh? Cool.
  

• Even better than the folks are the guns and being able to, for the most part, randomly walk the range and strike up conversations about folks' different collections.
  

• And the random discussion(s) of how guns are (and are not, besides the obvious) like boobies.

• Mosin-Nagant. [insert more Tim Allen here].

• That last one didn't sound quite right...

• Few might know this, but the Mosin is actually a dolt-action rifle. Yeah, that's when, after the first round, you turn your head to give your best cheerio-droolin' grin to the rest of the group, get behind the rifle again, squeeeeeze that trigger, and then when nothing happens sheepishly rack the bolt, load another round, and fire.

• I have it on pretty good authority that I wasn't the only one to do this...

• Evil. Black. Rifles. Mmmmmmm....
  

• Enthusiastic trigger work does get a visit from range personnel in the form of a warning to slow down the shots... for us.

• I think the rapid fire that didn't raise any eyebrows from the range folks was the concealed class, perhaps? Regardless, looked pretty well populated, good stuff.
  

• I'm not an advocate of spray-n'-pray for the hell of it, but it is nice to be able to practice multiple shots. I got the feel it was more of a 'hunters rifle range' though (slow fire, bench rest, etc), so I understand - their range, their rules.

• When that guy came over to eyeball our EBRs, ask what caliber they were, prices, and why we would want them in the first place, considering that "they were for killing folks", I had to bite my tongue from replying, 'you say that like it's a bad thing...'

• I don't think he would have understood my answer.

• Whoever responded with the more pc (and overall better) answer of hunting, training, and fun, kudos to you.

• Speaking of which, time really flies when you're having fun, huh.