Gunnery

 

"Congo Compton," he fought in Angola, tipped up at the Compound in a huge new 4x4 F One Fiddy. "That's a good looking truck you got there, brother. Did you bring the Gatling?" Yes, he had, and after some strong covfefe we headed out to the range in a two truck convoy. Mission? To celebrate Trafalgar Day with a shoot. And that's exactly what we did.

Congo got right down to it, setting up his beautifully machined Tippman Ordnance Gatling on a sturdy oak tripod. And before you could say Impi we were cranking the handle like fury, unleashing a stream of hot 9 mm lead at a group of foolishly ill-prepared pumpkins. They didn't stand a chance. 

They also failed to defeat a PPS 43 semi, chambered for 7.62×25mm Tokarev, a Mini 14, several .38 Special Snubbies and a Glock 21. Bad luck, pumpkins, you lost this round, But how would Tannerite stand up to the 7.62 NATO of an old Aero Precision AR 10? 

Explosively and then some. What a lot of fun. Mission accomplished, we drove back to the Compound through the bucolic pastures of Hill County Texas, a good time had by all. Moral of the story? Get out in the countryside and shoot.

2A,

LSP

All Hail The Power

 

Two soldiers walked through the door last night and I sent them off into the wild with shotguns and an SKS. They did well, apparently, and today we went out for a shoot. First up, shotguns, a no-name O/U 12 and a CZ SxS. Two guns up on one thrower, how'd it go?

A slow start because everyone was rusty and then we moved into the zone, smoking those clays like so many F 190s over Falaise, result. Next up? An Anderson 7.62 x 39, AR platform, Sov bullets, and it failed to fire TulAmmo consistently. Perhaps a primer issue because the beast shot fine with Federal brass, nice little barker.

Tellingly, a ChiCom SKS swallowed up some nasty TulAmmo like it was going out of fashion, which is good because the cheap and dirty rounds are just that, cheap. Big fun and time to move on from Warsaw Pact tomfoolery to 7.62 NATO. After a few ranging shots we discovered the rifle was pretty much on and lined it up against Tannerite. BOOM, more of that please.

The shoot finished with my eldest's Glock 45 9 and it was pleasing to see my amateur gunsmithery worked out, the RDS didn't fly off, in fact the system performed surprisingly well in the hands of the soldiers. Me? Not bad but not up to their level, rusty you see.

And that was that, a great shoot under a clear blue Texan sky and I was genuinely impressed by the marksmanship of the young 'uns. They shoot front on, curiously and hey, the stance works. The Tannerite was cool too. More. please.

#2A,

LSP