recoil therapy

I took a break from submitting college homework, conference proposals and article submissions today for a little Me Time. Just a short session at the range, total of 120 rounds fired. I worked on half of each box of ammo was spent shooting weak hand-only.In other news, I need to practice more on WHO shooting. I sucked. First up was ...

Yesterday saw me doing accuracy and chrono work for the Girsan 1911SC. Protocol was to chrono 10 consecutive shots from three separate batches/brands of ammunition with different bullet weights. Each of those loads was then tested for accuracy for three consecutive 5-shot groups at 15 yards from a rest. For the test, I used Winchester White Box 124gr FMJ, PMC ...

Got busy with EMS conference season and the holidays, and haven’t been to the range since Blogorado. After speaking with Girsan and getting a new RDS and more magazines, I managed to sneak in a little range time here at Casa de Ambulance Driver. Temperature was a mild 57 degrees, 40% humidity, and sunny. I fired 50 rounds each of ...

Last weekend, I trekked forth to Secret Location, CO for my annual stress relief and psychological battery-recharging called Blogorado. Nothing eases my burdens quite so well as hanging out with my gunnie tribe, turning expensive ammunition into smoke and noise, eating great food and drinking even better beer, and telling outrageous truths and plausible lies around a crackling fire at ...

… don’t pull the trigger again. Keep your pistol pointed down range, investigate, and clear the malfunction. Step away from the line if need be. This was from a new box of Federal Champion 9mm, aluminum-cased 115gr FMJ. As far as I know, there were no other issues with any other rounds from that box. Luckily for me, the underpowered ...

As hoped, Epic Duck Hunt 2013 was enjoyed by all, and we'll be doing it again next year. I got a few photos and action video for you, but unfortunately all the best hot-and-heavy, in-yo-face shooting was right before dawn, and the iVue video camera glasses just don't work well in those conditions. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUqkbnPbSv4   The weather was bitterly cold ...

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9dzZ5_Ea24&feature=youtube_gdata   Don't you wish you could have been there? I don't mean to gloat, but…   … neener, neener, neener.

Took colleague DeAnna and her 16-year-old daughter Dakota to the range today to try out the Hi Point 9mm carbine I'm reviewing. Both are avid bowhunters, but have never handled a firearm. DeAnna owns a Ruger LCP, which she has only fired twice because she found the recoil unpleasant. After a little instruction, she was fine: I started both mother ...

Here’s a couple of 10-year-old girls with one of those scary AR15 rifles that are too complex for women to operate: For a weapon too complex for women to operate, they were certainly having fun perforating Coke* cans with it, and doing so safely. I’d have given them a double-barreled shotgun to learn with, but it kicks too much for ...

The child had grown a bit disenchanted with shooting the past couple years. Between her attempts to compensate for her weak eye and the lucky fin, it was difficult to hit the target without a lot of help. And she’s smart enough to know when Daddy is doing most of the work, and proud enough to be insulted by it. ...

The black-tailed prairie dog, Cynomys ludovicianus, is a burrowing rodent whose range once stretched from southern Saskatchewan to Chihuahua, Mexico. They are still common across much of the western and southwestern United States. Prairie dog colonies range from populations of five to many thousands of individual animals, and are arranged in a fairly sophisticated social structure. The typical black-tailed prairie ...

You come back later, maybe I have blog for you then. Going to the range right now for some recoil therapy. Hopefully I can come back with enough inspiration to finish a couple of paid writing projects and a few blog posts. Range report to follow, later this afternoon…

How do you spell f-U-N? Plastic Easter eggs packed with binary explosives, that's how.