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Owel, after my usual Saturday lunch at Hankook Taqueria, decided to hit the Sandy Springs Gun Club, since unlike Wild West Traders, you don't have to have a person with you to rent anything. (Interesting, from my neck of the woods, google maps says I should actually just exit 285 at Roswell and head up there that way, as opposed to going all the way to 400)
I was hoping to try out the .45 acp version of the XDM, just to experience the diff between it and the 9mm, but alas they had none. I did want to try out a rifle though, so I rented an AR-15 style (not sure which particular manufacturer's it was) carbine to try it out. The red-headed cutie who works there showed me how it works, and I got to it.
Since this was my first time firing a rifle ever, I decided to just set the distance to something easy, 10 yards, just to get a feel for the weapon. Interesting, the thing shot like a breeze! The recoil was minimal, after all it was just .223/5.56mm rounds being fired, I prolly could've shot the thing all day if I wanted. I think I did okay:
Since the 150 yards is considered "short range" for this thing, kicked it up to 20 yards to see how the point of impact of the bullets differed from what I was aiming at, and how I should compensate for that:
That first grouping in the upper right is where it was hitting when I was aiming for center. So, I tried compensating by firing a little lower and to the left, but not well enough as I was firing a little too far to the left.
Owel, since its an indoor range I couldn't really send the target too far back, so here's my attempt at 25 yards:
I think I did a better job of compensating, particularly since the rounds are grouped a little tighter, though still a little high. Oh, that stray bullet in the lower right is actually a 9mm, I used up my last 5 nines to see if I could hit the target at 25 yards. Alas, only 1 of the 5 hit. I knew I had to aim high as the bullets drifted downward, but apparently I wasn't compensating high enough.
Speaking of 9mms though, set the target at 10 yards, and with 4 fully loaded clips (76 rounds total), firing it as quickly as I could (but not too quick, as such rapid fire shooting is frowned upon) to see how well I did:
Oh well, only about 18.5% of the rounds were in the red, but almost 60% were where in the 9 ring, and if one were going by the 5-4-3 scoring system, there were only 2 threes, 13 4s, and the rest of the 76 would score 5. Not bad, I think.
That's enough shooting for this month though, because I've been going through 200-250 bullets per range visit, and even buying cheap, that starts to get pricey.
I was hoping to try out the .45 acp version of the XDM, just to experience the diff between it and the 9mm, but alas they had none. I did want to try out a rifle though, so I rented an AR-15 style (not sure which particular manufacturer's it was) carbine to try it out. The red-headed cutie who works there showed me how it works, and I got to it.
Since this was my first time firing a rifle ever, I decided to just set the distance to something easy, 10 yards, just to get a feel for the weapon. Interesting, the thing shot like a breeze! The recoil was minimal, after all it was just .223/5.56mm rounds being fired, I prolly could've shot the thing all day if I wanted. I think I did okay:
Since the 150 yards is considered "short range" for this thing, kicked it up to 20 yards to see how the point of impact of the bullets differed from what I was aiming at, and how I should compensate for that:
That first grouping in the upper right is where it was hitting when I was aiming for center. So, I tried compensating by firing a little lower and to the left, but not well enough as I was firing a little too far to the left.
Owel, since its an indoor range I couldn't really send the target too far back, so here's my attempt at 25 yards:
I think I did a better job of compensating, particularly since the rounds are grouped a little tighter, though still a little high. Oh, that stray bullet in the lower right is actually a 9mm, I used up my last 5 nines to see if I could hit the target at 25 yards. Alas, only 1 of the 5 hit. I knew I had to aim high as the bullets drifted downward, but apparently I wasn't compensating high enough.
Speaking of 9mms though, set the target at 10 yards, and with 4 fully loaded clips (76 rounds total), firing it as quickly as I could (but not too quick, as such rapid fire shooting is frowned upon) to see how well I did:
Oh well, only about 18.5% of the rounds were in the red, but almost 60% were where in the 9 ring, and if one were going by the 5-4-3 scoring system, there were only 2 threes, 13 4s, and the rest of the 76 would score 5. Not bad, I think.
That's enough shooting for this month though, because I've been going through 200-250 bullets per range visit, and even buying cheap, that starts to get pricey.