Ok, so here I am again, not much to report since the last time except some small time b/s. Mostly for stuff later on in my message thingy things. I went out on sunday to the shooting range with my buddy Tony from work. For those of you who know me well, but not quite that well enough? Yes, there are guns in our family and yes, I am going to inherit them from my dad. Dad no longer hunts or shoots for that matter and figured that since there's a guy at work who likes to go to the shooting range, I figured it would be something in common with someone at work to go and do stuff with.
So, here I sit with a sore shoulder from a recoil I wasn't all that expecting. The last gun I had fired... well, let me rephrase that as the ONLY weapon I've every fired in my life was a .22 calibre gun WWWAAAYYY back in '90/'91 when I had a brief stint in cadets. We basically fired the same weapons as dads only they had a .22 conversion. The weapon I fired?? A Lee - Enfeild Mark 3 .303 caliber... damn that sounded like a cannon going off compared to the guys who were beside us. The stamp on it was 1917 and man... what a good looking weapon. It brought a little bit of attention to the people around us seeing a beautifully kept weapon such as that. If I decided to sell it, it won't fetch much, but it now has more sentimental value in it than anything else.
When we got in there, there was a guy beside us sport shooting .22's and it was like small little slaps, he had bigger weapons with him that he shot once or twice for fun... but when I brought out my .303.... man... it was LOUD. Next time I go, even though I used the range ear muffs, I'll need to bring some ear plugs with me to double up on the ear protection. I doubt it would have been so loud in the open, but in a small enclosed space... but DAMN IT WAS FUN!!! I have to say, that this is one of the CHEAPER hobbies I have delved into. At a little over/under a $1/round... 20 rounds doesn't go very far fun wise.
Now, I thought I knew what I was doing and what I had to do, and there is no such thing as a stupid question, but I felt quite dumb asking the simplest of questions when it came to even loading my weapon. I guess, that the more I go out and the more I do, the more confident I'll feel when firing my weapon. Getting back to the recoil of this gun. It put me back a little... I won't fib here. I wasn't expecting the recoil that came from it... So, putting 3 or 4 rounds down range I needed to steady myself. After seeing my buddy Tony put a few rounds down range and got into a good pose to cushion himself and get a good round off (he's the one who put it in the center mass, CX), I figured I could give it a try. Got a good position, steadied my self and sent a round down range, and in the instant I pulled the trigger, the 4x scope that fits on this gun came back and the top of the scope hit my eyebrow. No broken skin, or black eye... but its still a little tender. And yes... I did learn my lesson and won't be doing that for a while.
Just for the record... out of the 20 rounds that went down range, 17 hit the target area and 15 would have actually hit something.
Later
~Chris
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