Without getting into a political discussion, I just wanna say one thing: Guns are fun. They're big and loud, they're kind of scary, and they belch smoke and flame as they invisibly and instantaneously punch a neat little hole in a paper target several yards away. If you've never fired a gun, I highly recommend trying it out someday. It's an eye-opening experience.

 

Bill and I decided it was high time we and our little ladies paid a visit to the range. We all had some experience with the pistolas except for Katy, who was a complete newbie and not convinced this was something she was even remotely going to enjoy. She got spooked when we walked onto the range and saw a large man in a bulletproof vest firing an extremely loud large-caliber handgun, but it turned out to be an off-duty law enforcement officer working on his aim.

 

After warming up with a little .22 revolver, we moved up to a .357 magnum revolver ("just like the one used by General Custer", according to the rental staff) and also fired a box of rounds through my Makarov 9mm. I had beautiful groupings but low accuracy as usual and Shawna and Katy were strikingly good for beginners, while "Wild" Bill upheld his moniker by being the only one who broke the PVC piping that held the target, but also the only one who nailed the bull's eye in the dead center.

 

In a complete stroke of luck, I snapped a flash photo of Shawna at the exact instant she pulled the trigger and ended up with a neat pic of the .357's muzzle flash. How's that for high falutin' shootin'?

 

- Jas

 

P.S. Katy had so much fun that she wrote down the make/model of the .357 so she could bring a friend down to shoot it the following week :)