Saturday, May 23, 2009

I'm off to take a stomping.

I'm off to the shooting range, where I am going to get pwnt at an M1 Carbine match. My objective for the day: Don't come in last place.

I'm already practicing excuses:
  • "It was a borrowed carbine."
  • "The sun was in my eyes."
  • "I wanted that eight year old to feel good about her first match, so I threw the game."
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17 comments:

  1. og8:26 AM, May 23, 2009

    my fave is 'if they'd just let me shoot my (insert gun of choice here) i'd have cleaned up'.

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  2. J.R.Shirley8:34 AM, May 23, 2009

    Good luck. Sounds like fun...

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  3. Turk Turon8:54 AM, May 23, 2009

    "The sights were still caked with Cosmoline from the CMP."

    Wv: blyme

    Yaaaargh! Avast there!

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  4. Tango Juliet9:02 AM, May 23, 2009

    You sound like a trapshooter! :)

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  5. Home on the Range10:09 AM, May 23, 2009

    Don't forget - "I ate too much bacon "(burp).

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  6. staghounds10:20 AM, May 23, 2009

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  7. staghounds10:25 AM, May 23, 2009

    "The dog ate my good bullets."

    I swear upon the holy places, the captcha word is ratterre. Exactly the sort of dog that eats bullets.

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  8. rickn8or11:54 AM, May 23, 2009

    I'd buy everything you say Tam, except the last excuse.

    "She needs to learn how to lose gracefully."

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  9. Jay G12:08 PM, May 23, 2009

    Heh. Just confirmed my 3:30 appointment with blastie goodness and a new shooter.

    Now I need to go assemble some range toys.

    Heh...

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  10. Abby4:09 PM, May 23, 2009

    T'was shooting an M1 carbine in a 100 yd "gas gun" shoot at my old club when I adjusted windage the wrong way, walking my rounds right instead of left, off the paper.

    [sigh]

    A bad day shooting a carbine is better than the best day at the office - but that one was close.

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  11. treefroggy7:08 PM, May 23, 2009

    So, where did you fine carbine ammo, and can I have some ?

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  12. Ed Foster7:12 PM, May 23, 2009

    I was shooting an old '03 Springfield match gun belonging to a buddy's uncle.

    I fired a sighter from prone, and my buddy Gary, on the scope, said "Give me another". I did, followed by a third. He suggested I not mess with the sights, as I had three pinwheels dead center in the V ring.

    I proceeded to look really good, until the knob on the ladder sight, which I'd forgotted to tighten, slipped, and the sight bar slipped a bit lower with each shot. I wish I'd twigged to it before I'd thrown away a hundred plus points. Nobody to blame but myself. Dang.

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  13. Somerled12:10 AM, May 24, 2009

    Don't forget, "The barrel band must have been slipping." That might be true particularly if the carbine has the 1/2" Type 1 band.

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  14. T.Stahl5:20 PM, May 24, 2009

    Now, was there any need for excuses? How did you finish?

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  15. Matt G7:55 PM, May 24, 2009

    Hey! That sounds like FUN. I want to shoot my 1943 GM M1 carbine in a match. It's a ringer, even after having spent half a century with the Israelis before I got it. (Damn I'd love to hear that carbine tell me some stories.)

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  16. Robert Langham2:45 PM, May 25, 2009

    Hard to shoot those little guns and get good position. Good luck. What's the course of fire?

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  17. Tam8:55 AM, May 26, 2009

    40 round match: 10 slow fire prone, 10 rapid fire prone, 10 rapid fire sitting, 10 slow fire offhand.

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