I went down to Atterbury for my first time with a few friends today.
They had shotguns, a couple AR's, couple revolvers, various calibers of semi-auto pistols... a real arsenal between them. My meager arsenal is a 10/22 with 25 rounds through it and an brand new scope on top of it.
We started out shooting trap. First time I'd ever done that. A whole lot more fun than shooting holes in paper I thought. There was four of us and we shot two rounds of trap. I didn't keep track of how many pigeons I hit, but I felt good about hitting the ones that I did. One of the guys did 20/25, which I thought was great. One guy had an over under, another a shorter barreled pump, and the other a semi auto. I got to try em all. But dang my shoulder hurts! It's already red, and I imagine black and blue will follow.
Then down to the pistol side. I got to shoot a small S&W .38 special, Ruger .22 single action, Kimber 1911, Glock 30, a Beretta 92, and a Sig P230. I also tried my 10/22 down there, but it was sorta hard to tell how it was hitting since we were just had the targets 7yds or so away and I was standing. But it seemed pretty high and left.
Finally we went over to the 50yd rifle benches. I put over 100 rounds through that 10/22 and I swear I only hit the 8" target about 4 times... pretty horrible. The scope was so far off that I really had no clue about how to adjust it. One of my friends tried 10 rounds through it and gave up. We couldn't tell were the rounds were landing on the board or dirt or wherever. We ran out of time so we couldn't go to a shorter distance to try to figure out what was going on. So I left feeling pretty annoyed.
I did get to put 20 rounds through one of the AR's and my target came out pretty good.. for someone shooting an AR for the first time, and using iron sights.
Overall, a pretty good day!
Here I am missing a clay pigeon:
They had shotguns, a couple AR's, couple revolvers, various calibers of semi-auto pistols... a real arsenal between them. My meager arsenal is a 10/22 with 25 rounds through it and an brand new scope on top of it.
We started out shooting trap. First time I'd ever done that. A whole lot more fun than shooting holes in paper I thought. There was four of us and we shot two rounds of trap. I didn't keep track of how many pigeons I hit, but I felt good about hitting the ones that I did. One of the guys did 20/25, which I thought was great. One guy had an over under, another a shorter barreled pump, and the other a semi auto. I got to try em all. But dang my shoulder hurts! It's already red, and I imagine black and blue will follow.
Then down to the pistol side. I got to shoot a small S&W .38 special, Ruger .22 single action, Kimber 1911, Glock 30, a Beretta 92, and a Sig P230. I also tried my 10/22 down there, but it was sorta hard to tell how it was hitting since we were just had the targets 7yds or so away and I was standing. But it seemed pretty high and left.
Finally we went over to the 50yd rifle benches. I put over 100 rounds through that 10/22 and I swear I only hit the 8" target about 4 times... pretty horrible. The scope was so far off that I really had no clue about how to adjust it. One of my friends tried 10 rounds through it and gave up. We couldn't tell were the rounds were landing on the board or dirt or wherever. We ran out of time so we couldn't go to a shorter distance to try to figure out what was going on. So I left feeling pretty annoyed.
I did get to put 20 rounds through one of the AR's and my target came out pretty good.. for someone shooting an AR for the first time, and using iron sights.
Overall, a pretty good day!
Here I am missing a clay pigeon: