Firearms

Today, we took our .45 caliber pistols – Damsel’s Warthog and my Glock 30. We shot both guns last weekend at the Gun Blogger Rendezvous, but didn’t clean them afterward. We also only shot just a few rounds then since we were having fun going from place to place checking out the other interesting guns.

So, today, we brought our allotment of rounds we didn’t shoot last week and another 50 rounds of .45. We also brought Damsel’s S&W686 revolver and put 50 rounds of .38 special through that.

As usual, we brought shotguns and 25 rounds (each) of 12 and 20 gauge shells. The video shows some teamwork in chopping a silhouette target in half. Prior to the video, we teamed up to slice it down the middle and then Damsel took off the right side of the target. I then took off the left side. I’m sure this drill has no practical value, but it is fun and makes us laugh.

We only took four firearms to the range today: Damsel’s Para Ordinance Warthog .45ACP, my Glock 30 .45ACP, Damsel’s Remington 870 “Junior” 20 gauge shotgun and our Remington 870 Express Magnum Security 12 gauge shotgun. We left the .357 magnum guns at home since we did not have as much reserve .38 special or .357 ammo as we did .45. So, we grabbed a hundred rounds of .45ACP plus 25 rounds each of 12 and 20 gauge sport loads and headed to the range.

This video shows Damsel doing what she loves to do. The four clips in the video show her shooting, in turn, all of the firearms we brought today – the Warthog, the Glock 30, the 20 gauge Junior and the 12 gauge Security gun.

I got an inquiry from reader drjim, about how I record and publish the videos on our site. I use a Canon A710IS in the movie mode. It produces an AVI file which I then edit with Windows Movie Maker to crop and to add titles. Then, I use a flash tool to convert to the Flash® format. It’s a little work but produces a video compatible with most browsers. It’s all home grown and does not use You Tube or any other social networking parasites. I like it that way. What you see here generally comes from here. Once in a great while, we will link to one of those sites, but only if it’s *very* important and as a last resort.

Sunday’s target practice went well. We took our 9mm pistols (my Glock 26 and Damsel’s S&W 908s) and Damsel’s S&W 686 .357 magnum revolver. We also took a couple of our shotguns, the 12 and 20 gauge Remington 870s.

We have been having warm weather this week and Sunday was no exception. The target shooting was fun and all, but the indoor range was a bit too warm. We toughed it out, though, and shot 50 rounds of .38 special, 100 rounds of 9mm and 50 rounds of shot shells.

In the video here, I’m following up on Damsel’s handy work by finishing shooting the target in half and then shooting off the left side (stage right) of the dangling silhouette target. After that series of shots, we exited the range to enjoy the cooler temperatures in the gun shop.