{"id":4616,"date":"2008-09-29T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4616"},"modified":"2017-11-04T11:13:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T16:13:01","slug":"range-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/29\/range-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Range Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be like all the cool kids, I compelled Jack Straw to take me to the local indoor gun range with an assortment of his armaments.  I shot:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/22.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"Brian J. firing the .22\"><br \/>\nA Browning BuckMark in .22lr with a C-More Red-dot sight firing CCI subsonic hollowpoints.<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/45.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"Brian J. firing the .45\"><br \/>\nA Para Ordnance P1445 in .45ACP with open, fixed sights firing Sellier &#038; Bellot 230gr FMJ.<\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my first time firing those new-fangled semi-automatic handguns, or as they&#8217;re soon to be known in a House bill and set of laudatory news stories, <i>high-powered assault sniper cop-baby-and-puppy-killer automatic machined pistols<\/i>.  Still, for all the hoopla, they don&#8217;t always fire a bullet when you pull the trigger.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/45-2.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"Brian J. not firing the .45\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Not depicted: the Glock G36 in OD Green with fixed sights with a LaserMax guide-rod laser (pulsing) firing Sellier &#038; Bellot 230gr FMJ and the Romanian WASR-10 (AK-variant) with Pentax red-dot sight, folding stock, aluminum quad rail fore-end, AK-74-style muzzle compensator, rear pistol grip &#038; forward folding grip, TAPCO single-hook trigger, and Axis Pin Retaining Plate firing Wolf Military Classic Hollow Point, soon to be known after a House bill, Senate Bill, signature by President Obama, and laudatory news stories as <i>illegal<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Also not depicted: the RehabCare logo on the ball cap.<\/p>\n<p>How did I do?  You had to ask that, didn&#8217;t you?  Well, I aimed consistently low.  Jack Straw tells me my grouping was very good, but let&#8217;s be honest, if I used my hand instead of a pistol, it would have been called a groping and not a grouping, okay?  I dunno what I was doing wrong; we were shooting at little adhesive targets affixed to the paper target, and I missed consistently low and left when I fired at the right side of the target and hit pretty good on the left side of the target.<\/p>\n<p>I blame the change in my dominant eye in the 20 years since I last fired a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;m pleased to have gone and will have to do so again.  Understanding a semi-automatic pistol and firing one tolerably might not be in Heinlein&#8217;s list of things a man should be able to do, but it&#8217;s on mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be like all the cool kids, I compelled Jack Straw to take me to the local indoor gun range with an assortment of his armaments. I shot: A Browning BuckMark in .22lr with a C-More Red-dot sight firing CCI subsonic hollowpoints. A Para Ordnance P1445 in .45ACP with open, fixed sights firing Sellier &#038; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17292,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions\/17292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}