A-shooting we will go…

A pretty and still winter day for once. Frigid at daybreak but starting to warm up now. We got walkies out of the way and I’ve got some work to do after lunch when it has warmed as much as it will, but right now I want to shoot my new pistol.

I always want to do something nicer with the 24- and/or 12-yard lines, but I really can’t. They’re right in the path of the flood, and everything I ever put there except this pounded and pipe-wrapped piece of rebar just washed away. Sometimes when there’s a group we round up some portable tables, but I don’t leave them out here.

Last time he was here, Ian grumbled something about how he needed to get some nicer targets. But personally I like these. It’d be cool to have fancier targets but I’d always worry about hurting them. With these, the plates can’t be harmed by anything less than a .50 cal so the worst damage you could possibly do is shoot through a chain. That happens all the time when somebody’s out here with a rifle, but I scrounge all the scrap chain I can find. That kind of damage takes only a few minutes to fix, no problem. So I kind of like our beat-up little target stand.

And the nice thing about having a new pistol? There’s not much temptation to leave off the cleaning. 🙂