Bought my girlfriend a handgun. Tanfoglio GT 380 Auto.

[IN_Varmntr]

Bought my girlfriend a handgun. Tanfoglio GT380 Auto. Homemade backstop pics added

Got it off of a friend for $75. I know they're not worth much but it's definately something fun for her to shoot that she can control a little more than my 45.

Finally located some ammo and threw up a target for her to shoot at today after church. She did really well once we got her stance and grip right.


10 yds.

First mag. 6 of 7 rounds on the paper. 1 is a bulleye. Beginners luck I say.

 

[esrice]

Good job!

(tell her "well-done!" for that trigger finger placement!)

 

[HICKMAN]

Heh, I wouldn't stand in front of her

My wife mentioned this morning that she wants to start shooting again.

 

[POTI]

tanfoglio's are same as CZ-75 whixh is a great gun! Good score on the 380 amo

 

[IN_Varmntr]

Good job!

(tell her "well-done!" for that trigger finger placement!)

Good thing about having a "cheap" gun that tends to have feeding and ejection issues is that she gets to practice safe handling techniques. A lot.

There's a range up here that has reloaded 380 Auto ammo that they sell for $15/box when you give them brass in exchange. I had about a hundred range pickups laying around so we had more than enough to get her comfortable with it. Wish I could've gotten more since they had about 1600 rounds in stock.

 

[popeye]

Cute girl. You're a lucky guy.

 

[Scutter01]

That's an interesting place to shoot. It looks like there's no backstop. What's downrange?

 

[melensdad]

That's an interesting place to shoot. It looks like there's no backstop. What's downrange?

That's what I was thinking too

 

[Scutter01]

That's what I was thinking too

It looks like it's all farmland and the trees in the background may hide something, that's why I asked. After the recent story about the guy being struck by a stray round in his bed from 1/3rd mile away, I find myself a lot more aware of what's downrange and where my shot is going. In this case, I'm not implying anything, I'm just asking as I'm curious.

 

[IN_Varmntr]

Well I don't have a way to explain it so I just took pictures of our backstop. This is our handgun backstop only. Just behind the house in the woods we have an old tree trunk for our rifle backstop (~100yrds). My father made it a few years back out of I-Beams.

If we miss the backstop entirely which sometimes happens, we've got the woods behind the backstop, 1000yrds of open field, then another 300yrds of heavily wooded area, then another 500yrds or so of setaside field before coming close to the nearest home.

It's dark but I think the pics came out okay. It's got a lead trap in the back and the lead also accumulated at the bottom I-Beam. Once we use the lead, we melt it down into jigheads for our smallmouth fishing trips to Lake Erie.

 

[dye]

What's the name of the range? I am in Noble county and have a few rounds of empty 380 brass.

Thanks.

 

[IN_Varmntr]

It's Mile Corner Gun & Gallery in Garrett.

 

[jmiller676]

Hey! IN_Varmntr I like that...I'll give ya $20 for it right now, one time offer

 

[IN_Varmntr]

That's a hard one, but I think I'll hafta pass!

 

[calcot7]

I am sure there is, but I just have to say it............I sure hope there's hearing protection in use here.

 

[Scutter01]

That's a pretty cool backstop!

 

[IN_Varmntr]

Yes, hearing protection is always used. When my entire "family" shoots (mom, dad, brother and g/f, myself and g/f) we always use eye/ear protection.

We've actually got some more 3/4" I-Beam chunks that are 3' long each that we are going to make a second backstop like the one we already have. I've also got some 1/2" plate steel I'm going to plasma cut some 8" plates to setup a little course in the woods. A little "tactical" course of my own so-to-say.

ETA: I was about hit by a neighbor's ricochets one year while groundhog hunting behind the house. I was atop a hill overlooking the creek glassing the banks when I heard gunshots followed by bullets whizzing through the air around me. One planted in the soil about 4" from my left foot and shot soil all over me. I ran like hell to the house and was hyperventilating while trying to explain what just happened to my parents, who were on the phone shortly after trying to figure out who it was that was doing the shooting. So, needless to say, I make it a point to be more aware of what's beyond any target before I even touch the trigger.

 

[JosephR]

I've never seen a "foglio" let alone a tan one.

Nice deal on a Tangfolio though

So, why is it that most of us cannot spell something that we are probably looking at as we type? Every other thread I look at has the name of a gun misspelled in the title it seems...

Us Hoosiers need to band together to stomp out this stereotype of us being hillbillies with no education.

 

[IN_Varmntr]

Would you spell it correctly for me please? Looks like you're not far from the stereotype that every gun owner is a know-it-all.

 

[JosephR]

Whoah!

So they spell their name two different ways or is yours a misspelled copy of a Tangfolio?