Rampidbyter Rampid byter: A byte of my .Net developing life.

On a sports note my target practice skills are becoming more tuned. This past weekend after going to the Bill Goodman’s Gun and Knife show my girlfriend, and another friend of mine went down to the local target range. I should note that there were actually more interesting knives there this time. Really, most of the knives there are just your generic pocket knife displayed for a solid isle. I’m not sure I’d consider them the most interesting, or even really the attraction of the show.

At the show you’ve got your main varieties of hand guns, naturally overpriced, or only about ten dollars cheaper than retail. That’s cheaper before you take into account the two to four percent charge on credit card/debit purchases, and tax. So really you end up losing out on a good price when you can’t even factor that the gun is probably used, well really, is used. The attraction, at least for me, is the assault rifles, and variety of old time weapons. I particularly love the M1 rifles, the selection of very nice gas powered shot guns, or my favorite the AK/SKS/AR selections. Let us not forget the mounds and mounds, and boxes and boxes of ammo that they’re selling there. I picked up over 440 rounds of silver tipped 7.62x54mm rounds for 90$. The cheapest they have at the stores is about 13$ for 32 pack. So do the math on that one, and you’ll see I did indeed get a deal. Now only if I could figure out how to open the sealed case of ammo. Hrm.

Anyway, the point is I went down to the target range with my friends. While there I finally figured out exactly where the bullets are lining up against. I’ve had problems with them going low and to the left. By left I mean I’d aim dead center of the targets head, and they’d carry over to the ear. I’d have a consistent grouping at the ear, but I’ve finally got the hang of where, and how to move the gun to get the bullets where I want them to be. I’m consistently hitting the same areas, with a few exceptions for hasty shots, or of course the gangster rapid fire side ways firing. That’s just fun for giggles. For anyone who hasn’t tried it I’d recommend going out to the target range and try firing down range for a while. You may think you’d get bored easily but an hour just whips by like nobodies business.