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All,
I figured perhaps we've all fallen into the trap sometimes, of going to the range and just kind of shooting bullets at the targets with no real purpose other than to push bullets downrange.
Well, I've tried to make the range time really worthwhile now so today I set up a little training and testing at the same time.
I worked on trigger control with the 9mm and finally got around to testing and shooting my old standby, backup gun, the Walther PPK in .380ACP. It's funny that after all these years, it's still a whole different animal to shoot when you've gotten used to the Glocks.
But, for the grand finale, I decided to take the top four bullets of my EXPENSIVE defensive ammo magazines and put them in one mag and do the "for real" scenario. We practice with FMJ bullets but we carry JHP's for real. Time to test those year old .45ACP bullets in the gun to make sure they shoot like the practice ones!!
So, to finish the session, I drew from concealment and double tapped two steel targets at 9 yards.
Then, while holding the weapon at the high ready on each of the two targets I backed away to 20 yards and stood there for one full minute with the gun moving between both targets. After one minute of holding the gun high, I took two final "hostage" shots at the bad guy. In this case it was a yellow sheet of 8x10 paper on a normal paper target.
Both shots hit nicely on the yellow paper and I was done for the day. These last six shots were all with my normal defensive ammo instead of practice ammo, just to make sure they fly the same, especially at the 20 yard distance.
So, I'm good to go. The carry gun proved it works and works well and should the need ever arise to zero in on something/somebody at 20 yards, I'm home free!! (Especially if they're wearing a yellow raincoat!)
Hey, it's practice time with a twist! Make that practice time count!!
AD (I would post up the yellow sheet with two holes in it but that would be tacky, don't ya think?)
I figured perhaps we've all fallen into the trap sometimes, of going to the range and just kind of shooting bullets at the targets with no real purpose other than to push bullets downrange.
Well, I've tried to make the range time really worthwhile now so today I set up a little training and testing at the same time.
I worked on trigger control with the 9mm and finally got around to testing and shooting my old standby, backup gun, the Walther PPK in .380ACP. It's funny that after all these years, it's still a whole different animal to shoot when you've gotten used to the Glocks.
But, for the grand finale, I decided to take the top four bullets of my EXPENSIVE defensive ammo magazines and put them in one mag and do the "for real" scenario. We practice with FMJ bullets but we carry JHP's for real. Time to test those year old .45ACP bullets in the gun to make sure they shoot like the practice ones!!
So, to finish the session, I drew from concealment and double tapped two steel targets at 9 yards.
Then, while holding the weapon at the high ready on each of the two targets I backed away to 20 yards and stood there for one full minute with the gun moving between both targets. After one minute of holding the gun high, I took two final "hostage" shots at the bad guy. In this case it was a yellow sheet of 8x10 paper on a normal paper target.
Both shots hit nicely on the yellow paper and I was done for the day. These last six shots were all with my normal defensive ammo instead of practice ammo, just to make sure they fly the same, especially at the 20 yard distance.
So, I'm good to go. The carry gun proved it works and works well and should the need ever arise to zero in on something/somebody at 20 yards, I'm home free!! (Especially if they're wearing a yellow raincoat!)
Hey, it's practice time with a twist! Make that practice time count!!
AD (I would post up the yellow sheet with two holes in it but that would be tacky, don't ya think?)