Ive been researching pistols for over a year now and I finally made up my mind to buy one. I initially wanted a 1911 .45, the limited capacity and the cost of the brands I was looking at made a big part of my decision to go a different direction. I started looking at full sized 9mm's and narrowed it down to the Glock 19, H&K VP9 and S&W 2.0. The 2.0 felt the best in my hand and its cost made it the clear winner for me. I was able to shoot both it and the Glock before I made my decision. I would have liked to shoot the H&K but in the end it didn't feel as good and was substantially more expensive.
Tonight after work I stopped at my buddies house and was able to shoot 300 rounds through it, I am really happy with my choice. I noticed that I was shooting high and left, basically twisting the gun while I fired. I changed the back strap to a narrower one and it helped bring it back to center. The fatter back strap felt better but made how I squeezed the trigger different.
I walk a lot at work, even if I spend most of the day in my office my walk is a minimum of a mile. I was also going though dress shoes like I owned stock in their companies until I started buying Red Wings. Yesterday I was walking across the hangar and realized the ball of my right foot hurt. it felt like my sock was bunched up in my shoe, I took it off and found nothing out of the ordinary. Later in the day I found myself taking it off again to check the sock. I then stuck my hand inside the shoe to feel the insole and it felt weird, when I flipped the shoe over I found this.
Immediately I start thinking to when I bought these, because they are expensive shoes and have a year warranty on them. Convinced they weren't a year old yet I jumped in my truck and drove over to the Red Wing store all puffy chested and mad.
The nice young lady working the counter convinced me that it was almost two years since I had bought them. Now that I documented it here I can just check the date when the next pair wears out.
I spoke to my boss today about the AR-15 I sighted in for him yesterday, and through that conversation the mystery was solved as to why the windage was full right. The scope is a UTG Bugbuster and it has a lighted reticle for which he believed there was a spare battery. Instead of screwing off the cover on the left side of the scope he turned the windage knob full CCW on the right side of the scope.
The last two weekends were taken up by working on the range, this weekend we get to use it.
My boss just finished building an AR-15 for his son and asked me to sight it in for him. I started off and 50 yards and after 3 shots I couldn't even see where it was hitting. I moved up to 25 with the same result and then about 15 yards and still couldn't tell. We grabbed some clean cardboard and at 10 yards I could see the shots were three feet off center to the right.When I went to put windage to the left into the scope I checked and it was maxed to the right, I'm not sure why. With it fairly close at 50 yards we moved out to 100 and I was able to make three shots that overlapped each other on the 4" plate.
Here is my buddy's range from 100 yards, the white tent is where we shoot from 50.
This is standing in front of the trap looking back the opposite direction.
This is the same shot zoomed in, the shooting bench is just to the left of his pickup.
I was also testing a shell bag I bought last week for $10.00. It attaches to the gun with a velcro strap and has a zipper at the bottom of the bag to empty it. It works great and takes the pain out of collecting shells, with it on the gun you hardly even notice its there. I wish I had known about these a long time ago.
Next my buddy got out his Barrett .338 Lapua Magnum. He had never shot his AR500 with it and even though the guy he bought it from guaranteed it would handle the gun at 100 yards there was still some doubt. Here is a short video of him hitting dead center on the 10" plate.
The next victim for the Barrett was a 5lb fire extinguisher I have had in my garage for 7 years. It had dropped below minimum charge and because it has a plastic head no one would recharge it.
After that I shot the Barrett at some mild steel pistol targets we had hung next to the AR500. The targets were the type that flipped up and you would shoot one to reset them. The problem with them is it took a 45 to reliably flip them so we never shot them much .
As you can see the Barrett went through the one I shot rather easily, that was a hollow point round not even armor piercing or anything fancy.
We shot about 400 rounds of .22 the rest of the afternoon, all in all a very vun day.
