Spent the best part of three weeks in New Mexico in May getting my biannual dose of shooting "proper" firearms.
First weekend was a Practical Pistol match & I was doing OK until the last magazine change of the final stage - bloody thing not only failed to drop but had to be pried out when back at my mate's place.
Guilty party was a cheapo magazine, which I replaced with a couple more Chip McCormick competition magazines prior to the next weekend's fun & games.
The pistol is a stainless steel Springfield 1911 that my mate loans me & is modifying to suit my left handedness - much nicer than last year's Gov't model.
I also have pretty much exclusive use of a BSA built L1A1 that now wears a Zeiss scope to aid my myopic view of the world & after some judicious parts fitting it now shoots sub 2" groups at 100yds so long as I don't feed it 1980's Indian surplus ammunition, coz if I do it shoots patterns rather than groups....
Combine the 1911 with the L1A1 & add a Saiga 410 shotgun & that's what I used for a three day mix of shooting & bullsh***ing at the NRA Whittington Center which I've been attending since 2006 & I'm pleased to say I finished higher up the scoreboard this time than I have in the past.
As usual, I had a wee chore to do too - reloading several hundred cases ready for my next visit later in the year:
Had some time behind my friend's .44 too; the loads were what he referred to as "bear killers" but I reckon I'm either immune to recoil, or too fick to feel it.
Of course there's a downside to all this: I've spent the past four weeks working my fingers off catching up with all the business stuff that didn't get done whilst I was away.
Now I need another holiday.....
