Joe Williams
Shooter
- Jun 26, 2008
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We spent this past weekend driving to Portage, PA Saturday to visit Cathy's parents, then Sunday we drove to West Virginia to visit my Mom and step-Father. Yesterday, before driving back to Indy we decided to celebrate Memorial Day by hitting the range and exercising our Constitution a little bit. Invited Mom to come along, and 'bout wet my pants when she said yes. Poor Robby (my step-father) was really excited LOL. See, my Mom is very liberal (not just Democrat like Robby), and has never had much use for guns. Got all faint at the mention and all. She grew up around hunting, but subsistence hunting doesn't have much to do with 2A rights. She'd never fired a handgun.
So, we head to the range, and Mom decides she wants to shoot Robby's Rock Island Armory 1911. I was a little concerned about her popping off with a .45 for her first time, but that's what she wanted. BOOM! She goes "it does have a kick, doesn't it?" then four more booms while she grinned LOL. Damned if she didn't hit the plates time and time again. Targets were paper plates at 10 yards, and she just kept putting holes in them. She fired Robby's .45, Cathy's .45 (which was exactly the same thing, but Mom didn't want to wait for Robby to finish his turn), my Beretta 92FS, and our Ruger Bearcat. She didn't like the Bearcat. She said it was too light and small for her taste. She popped off about forty rounds between the .45s and my Beretta. She said she was tired, but still grinning on the way home. She hammered those plates, only missed a couple times, and actually had good groups on top of hitting the plates.
This was Robby's first time shooting since his stroke. He had some issues at first, but by the time we were done he was putting them on the plates. He was seeing double, which hadn't happened before, and couldn't close just his left eye. Every time he tried both eyes closed. He said he'll get a patch. He can buy it the same time he buys Mom's gun, as she's instructed him he will be doing
The video below is Mom's second or third time at the line, and the one below it is Sean shooting Cathy's RIA 1911.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QZcO7r_ScI&feature=channel_page]YouTube - Mom Shooting Handgun For First Time[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up0FNAH8gqg&feature=channel_page]YouTube - Sean shooting Cathy's Rock Island Armory 1911 .45 ACP[/ame]http://lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/
So, we head to the range, and Mom decides she wants to shoot Robby's Rock Island Armory 1911. I was a little concerned about her popping off with a .45 for her first time, but that's what she wanted. BOOM! She goes "it does have a kick, doesn't it?" then four more booms while she grinned LOL. Damned if she didn't hit the plates time and time again. Targets were paper plates at 10 yards, and she just kept putting holes in them. She fired Robby's .45, Cathy's .45 (which was exactly the same thing, but Mom didn't want to wait for Robby to finish his turn), my Beretta 92FS, and our Ruger Bearcat. She didn't like the Bearcat. She said it was too light and small for her taste. She popped off about forty rounds between the .45s and my Beretta. She said she was tired, but still grinning on the way home. She hammered those plates, only missed a couple times, and actually had good groups on top of hitting the plates.
This was Robby's first time shooting since his stroke. He had some issues at first, but by the time we were done he was putting them on the plates. He was seeing double, which hadn't happened before, and couldn't close just his left eye. Every time he tried both eyes closed. He said he'll get a patch. He can buy it the same time he buys Mom's gun, as she's instructed him he will be doing
The video below is Mom's second or third time at the line, and the one below it is Sean shooting Cathy's RIA 1911.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QZcO7r_ScI&feature=channel_page]YouTube - Mom Shooting Handgun For First Time[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up0FNAH8gqg&feature=channel_page]YouTube - Sean shooting Cathy's Rock Island Armory 1911 .45 ACP[/ame]http://lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/
