Making range reports for newbies!
Somewhere out there, an anti-gun zealot took a friend to the anti-gun range, let him have a go at his anti-gun, no, three anti-guns, and then checked his anti-targets and had his friend grinning from ear to ear with pride at the anti-holes punched in his anti-target. And not only did I completely nullify that effort, but I went one better because my friend brought his son.
Here's my friend, Mr Coworker:
Yes, I am totally ruining him, because I let him have a go at a totally sweet M-14. Now he's going to be ruined for the rest of his life, forever comparing whatever firearm he's holding to that glass-snapping clean break of the trigger.
Well, I probably ruined him more for AR-15s, because the break on the trigger package I have in my lowers will make him think a standard AR-15 trigger is a grinding piece of sloppy crap, and he would be correct. I started him on my daughter's pink .22LR upper, then let him try my piston AR-15 in 5.56mm, then moved him up to the M-14, watching him as he tried each.
Did I mention it was a soggy day? As in: paths turned to mud; standing water in the range; and downpours so heavy the camera kept picking focus on the deluge? This is what happens to self-adhesive targets when you get to them last:
By the time we had moved up to the 100 yard targets, the adhesive target on the left had started peeling off. I shot the bullseye on the left for the first time through the upper left hand corner that had curled over the center of the target. Mr. Coworker first shot at the center of the right target, then went to work on the upper right target corner. Pretty good for a first time!
Of course, Mr Coworker got his try after his son.
Not bad for a first time, on an unfamiliar gun, at 25 yards, when you're seven years old. And at the end, we see the characteristic show-your-molars smile.
