Victor goes shooting
This Tuesday I went Shooting for the first time. So many times I ran into people who have shot before and said they would take me shooting, but no one actually took me or went with me. I was supposed to go with Michael on Tuesday but his work schedule conflicted and I decided to go anyway. I'm kinda glad I got to go by myself since I was hiring an instructor to show me the basics and he had more time to work with me.
First round with a SW63 22LR
I've always thought I would be a good shot, but that thought had no merit since I never shot a gun before. Now I can honestly say that I am a good shot and I'm looking to get better.
To the left is my target from my first round with the 22 revolver. If you look at the top left, those are the shots the instructor took before letting me shoot. Take a look at how close his shots are!
He told me that the accuracy is all about recoil anticipation, if you try to anticipate the recoil shots will hit low on the target as you try to move your hand down to lessen the recoil. It's important to not anticipate recoil.
After a few rounds I was getting the hang of it, he put me through a bunch of little tests / training rounds to help identify any problems. One of them was he loaded three bullets in to the revolver randomly spaced out. You pull the trigger and don't know if it's going to be live or dry.
Last round with the 22
This tests to see if you have any anticipation of the recoil. Most people when they pull the trigger on a dry fire the muzzle will dive down slightly, not mine!!
So my last round I shot an even tighter group than my first round, I was so excited! When I was done I said to the instructor, this is great and I know I'm good with a 22 but what will happen when I shoot a 9mm or higher? The 22 honestly felt like a BB gun. So he reaches down to his side and un-holstered his personal 40 caliber glock, puts it down on the table and tells me to pick it up. Up until this point I had only shot a 22 cal revolver and this being a semiautomatic, I had to hold it slightly differently. He also repositioned my stance, made sure my elbows were straight. When I was ready he said, ok now pull the trigger steady pressure. At this point I was really anxious and all the blood was rushing from my head and I started swaying (could have also been my new stance which I wasn't used to yet). I brought my front sights back on target and continued my trigger pull, then bam. It was over. The gun's recoiled was SO much stronger than the 22, I'm not too sure how far the recoil was, but if felt like my arm was bent at a 90 degree angle.
Here is the result of 40 caliber shot. Mine is the one on the bottom.
40 caliber shot, mine is the bottom one.
Pretty good huh? I'm going to continue with this sport.
November 2nd, 2011 - 20:40
Victor, you are good at everything you do! especially sports and mechanical stuff! You had to know you would kick butt at this : P