I got to shoot some small arms with the Colombian army at one of their training centres this morning.
We started off with a Beretta 92, first at a stationary range followed by a slow run through their pistol course with multiple targets and barricades. Since we are civilians, the range instructors stayed in very close contact (hand on back) with us. Frankly when giving visitors a live fire tour, I don't blame them
We then got to shoot some 5.56mm selective fire Galil rifles at 75m. Lovely rifles with their 2 stage triggers. Since they are AK clones their magazines cam into the magazine well and I did have some problems getting used to that.
Firing full capacity magazines in the Beretta 92 and Galil rifle was such a pleasure.
It's interesting that their weapons when carried in the field, (both pistols and rifles) are carried with a plastic dummy round in the chamber and a full magazine. The yellow plastic dummy is visible and shows that the weapon is safe. The officers are trained to do an Israeli draw when they need their sidearms.
Next up was the MGL-1 grenade launcher. I have previously posted an earlier shoot with this weapon but this time we got to fire more than one round at a time from its revolving magazine. The load was a mix of 40mm fragmentation ammo, and target rounds some of which did not seem to detonate on contact. The target was a large group of boulders on a clearing on the hillside 350m away. This is at the maximum range of the MGL-1.
http://s71.photobucket.com/albums/i155/pbgeologist/?action=view¤t=MGLLauncher.flv
Next we got to try out an M60 GPMG. I believe that is the early M60 and not one of the later variants like the lightweight M60-E3. It was very easy to shoot with little felt recoil. It seemed more rattley than the Vektor SS-77 I tried previously and we had one malfunction that they fixed. Afterwards the M60 operated flawlessly. I fired a 100 round belt of ball at the same group of boulders on the hillside now 800m away.
http://s71.photobucket.com/albums/i155/pbgeologist/?action=view¤t=M60.flv
We finished off the morning at their indoor simulation range where we got to try out their Beamhit system fitted to Beretta 92s and the Galils.
BTW that is not my target on the screen!
What a great way to spend a morning off work! Many thanks to the Colombian army for their kind and patient tour.
We started off with a Beretta 92, first at a stationary range followed by a slow run through their pistol course with multiple targets and barricades. Since we are civilians, the range instructors stayed in very close contact (hand on back) with us. Frankly when giving visitors a live fire tour, I don't blame them
We then got to shoot some 5.56mm selective fire Galil rifles at 75m. Lovely rifles with their 2 stage triggers. Since they are AK clones their magazines cam into the magazine well and I did have some problems getting used to that.
Firing full capacity magazines in the Beretta 92 and Galil rifle was such a pleasure.
It's interesting that their weapons when carried in the field, (both pistols and rifles) are carried with a plastic dummy round in the chamber and a full magazine. The yellow plastic dummy is visible and shows that the weapon is safe. The officers are trained to do an Israeli draw when they need their sidearms.
Next up was the MGL-1 grenade launcher. I have previously posted an earlier shoot with this weapon but this time we got to fire more than one round at a time from its revolving magazine. The load was a mix of 40mm fragmentation ammo, and target rounds some of which did not seem to detonate on contact. The target was a large group of boulders on a clearing on the hillside 350m away. This is at the maximum range of the MGL-1.
http://s71.photobucket.com/albums/i155/pbgeologist/?action=view¤t=MGLLauncher.flv
Next we got to try out an M60 GPMG. I believe that is the early M60 and not one of the later variants like the lightweight M60-E3. It was very easy to shoot with little felt recoil. It seemed more rattley than the Vektor SS-77 I tried previously and we had one malfunction that they fixed. Afterwards the M60 operated flawlessly. I fired a 100 round belt of ball at the same group of boulders on the hillside now 800m away.
http://s71.photobucket.com/albums/i155/pbgeologist/?action=view¤t=M60.flv
We finished off the morning at their indoor simulation range where we got to try out their Beamhit system fitted to Beretta 92s and the Galils.
BTW that is not my target on the screen!
What a great way to spend a morning off work!
Many thanks to the Colombian army for their kind and patient tour.
