--Had fun shooting with Mom and Tom last night. (Dawn and I have been meaning to go, but kayaking and beach-going have been calling too strongly!) I was shooting bullets through the same hole quite a bit last night! Not all the time, of course, but enough to get a little "woo hoo!" high after we left.
Dawn has an older Ruger Mark II that we shoot with, and that I enjoy a lot. I would have rented that last night, but guess what the people in front of us requested? What's worse is that they beat us into the door by just a hair. If only I'd put my shoes on a little faster when we were leaving!
The person behind the counter seemed to know Tom quite well however and got his personal Browning Buckmark 5.5 Target gun out of the car for me. How nice is that!?
I almost want to say that I liked the Browning a little better too. The one I used had florescent sights, which was quite nice. But more importantly, the handle was wood, which I prefer over the metal of the Ruger.
The one thing that I didn't like, and this is probably a deal-killer, is that it jammed on me twice. (I think that's the right term.) I read online later that it seems to be much more particular about ammo than the Ruger.
I've been thinking about buying my own little .22 for range shooting, so I have my eye open for this stuff right now. But then again, when Dawn and I are shooting we usually trade back and forth between her Clark Custom Ruger 10/22 rifle, and the pistol. (That rifle is fun on the 100m range!) So maybe it isn't a big deal, but it would be more fun I think if we were on the same range when we were shooting.
But if I had my own gun, I might not have an excuse to rent my .45 USP when we go to the range. It's really not as fun as a very accurate .22 target pistol, and the ammo cost will kill you, but sometimes it's just fun to say, "Yeah, I can shoot a 45!"
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