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well on Friday I was lucky enough to have the day off and went to the range with a friend from work and his young son. the friend is in his mid 50's. im mid 30's, his son is 17. Friend is retired Air Force, now working as a civilian, has had firearms in the past when he was stationed in AK, but not much other than a .300 win mag and a .357 revolver. although he has had training via the air force with the m-16.
Anyways we shot lots of stuff including my .22 revolver and ruger mkIII 22/45, then the sig p238, and the ruger SR9C.
after finishing up at that pistol range( the 17/yo/o loved the zombie splatter targets) we moved over to the rifle range and shot the ruger 10/22, the mosin nagant and finally the S&W MP-15. both of them thoroughly enjoyed the experience as did I. i was was happy to let them shoot my guns as the friend hasnt in along time and the young kid had only shot a .22 single shot in Boy scouts. it was interesting spending the day with a 17 y/o. i was happy to hear that he is mostly right leaning in his thoughts despite being part of the march-for-our-lives generation, he believes restrictions to the 2nd are not the solution to the problem.
I was surprised that the didnt think that the mosin kicked as much as i said it would but thought the AR kicked more than he thought it would.
all in all it was a nice range day, we put the ar-15 through its paces firing close to 100 rounds in a relatively short time, getting the barrel really hot and testing hot accuracy and function. Im happy to report the ar had not one malfunction. the only issue we had was a steel cased .380 getting stuck int he chamber of the sigp238. all it took was a quick poke with a cleaning rod and it was the ammo's fault not the gun. other than that all was well for our day at the range.
Anyways we shot lots of stuff including my .22 revolver and ruger mkIII 22/45, then the sig p238, and the ruger SR9C.
after finishing up at that pistol range( the 17/yo/o loved the zombie splatter targets) we moved over to the rifle range and shot the ruger 10/22, the mosin nagant and finally the S&W MP-15. both of them thoroughly enjoyed the experience as did I. i was was happy to let them shoot my guns as the friend hasnt in along time and the young kid had only shot a .22 single shot in Boy scouts. it was interesting spending the day with a 17 y/o. i was happy to hear that he is mostly right leaning in his thoughts despite being part of the march-for-our-lives generation, he believes restrictions to the 2nd are not the solution to the problem.
I was surprised that the didnt think that the mosin kicked as much as i said it would but thought the AR kicked more than he thought it would.
all in all it was a nice range day, we put the ar-15 through its paces firing close to 100 rounds in a relatively short time, getting the barrel really hot and testing hot accuracy and function. Im happy to report the ar had not one malfunction. the only issue we had was a steel cased .380 getting stuck int he chamber of the sigp238. all it took was a quick poke with a cleaning rod and it was the ammo's fault not the gun. other than that all was well for our day at the range.
