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Brutus

Brutus

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A gun testing story.

One day I was at the range testing client's guns - in this case, a Detective Special and a Python. I generally start shooting at 50 yards, because that's the closest steel target we have and shooting paper is boring.

(Besides, 50 yards is the point that I stop blinking when I shoot a steel target. Seriously - I'm paranoid about bullet splashback. When the 50 yard target becomes boring, I usually switch to the 200 yard target - you silhouette shooters know it as the ram. Shooting the ram, standing, double action, with light .38 Special ammo is something of a trick, as I need to aim about 15 feet above the target! If I get a hit per cylinder under those conditions, I'm a happy camper.)

Sorry for the gap in the narrative...anyhow, I'd just walked over the to 200 yard shooting position when this fellow comes up and stands next to me. As I'm loading he asks me what I'm shooting at. I motion to the 200 yard ram, and he squints his eyes. "No way you can hit that", he says. "I've got a GLOCK, and I couldn't hit that!" (The brand name was pronounced in a manner intended to evoke awe and wonder on the part of the listener. Sadly for him, it did not.)

I finished loading, looked at him and said "Well, it is pretty hard to hit." I turned my gaze back to the target, and squeezed off 2 rounds. From off in the distance came a distinct "clang....clang." I turned back to him and just grinned. He walked off, shaking his head in disbelief.

It's all about knowing when to stop! ;)

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I imagine I am about to be stormed by the Glockaholics! :stirthepot2:
 
:D Great story!:D I love it when I get to do something like that. Sadly it's all too rare that it works out. But when it does it sure is sweet.
 
Had a similar story with a Glock 21, hitting the 100YRD. steel plate with the first shot!
Smartest thing I ever did was to get up....turn to the gathering with a little smile...bow...and walk away.....priceless!
 
Only have a few moment like this, me and a shooting partner had tin cans hanging off a wire between two target boards at 25 yards. I was shooting a lousy borrowed P22, about the most inaccurate auto .22 I've experienced. A passing shooter made a comment something to the effect of "If you were shooting a rifle, you'd be cutting the wire, not tinking the cans." I aimed for where I thought the wire would be, and sliced it. Tried to act casual, it was worth having to walk out and string them back up.

The other was a 200 yard gopher (and an honest 200, I do a lot of LR shooting) with my Springfield M6 .410/.22. My brother was shooting his brand new bolt action Savage, I had my tiny little utilitarian, horribly iron sighted M6. I challenged him, jokingly, on a gopher standing near the farm's well head far down the slope a solid 200 yards out. He scoffed, and continued eyeballing for a 30 to 100 yarder. So, I sat down, put a round in the chamber, and guesstimated my downslope shot's holdover, rested my arms on my knees, and eventually let off the shot. Well, it ran off, wasn't sure where I hit. A half hour later or so, while walking down to a fresh patch we came across the unlucky bugger, hit right in the chest, he'd scrambled 3' over the mound of his hill and fell down and died. I just laughed as I was surprised too... but my brother gave me the, "That was a good shot." It was luck... the M6 isn't even capable of grouping inside a gopher at that range... but it was properly calculated luck.

Other than those, the usual goof shots, like jokingly taking a shot from the hip with a .22 and hitting the base of the can you just knocked over while aiming from the shoulder. Shoot enough rounds over the years and you get some funny ones.
 
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