If you can’t stand the heat…
The Good: Burned up 150 rounds of Georgia Arms 9mm FMJ in the Hi-Power. No Malfunctions, minimal fouling, no problems of any kind. It certainly appears to be good stuff.
The Bad: My shooting was a big bucket of fuck. Struggled to hold 3″ at 10 yards. It certainly didn’t help that the temperature was near 90 and humid, but I just could not get into a rhythm.
Worked on controlled pairs for a while and I was consistently throwing the second shot 2-3″ below the first. I think I’m overcompensating from the recoil of the first shot and dipping the gun. Dryfire practice is useless for this, since my “big” guns are all single-action. That means I can’t just snap in twice, I have to break my grip to either rack the slide or thumb-cock the hammer. The obvious but expensive solution: more live-fire practice.
I called it quits after a half-hour because the sweat was just pouring off of me and I could feel myself getting sloppy. Next time I’ll have to use a bit of forethought and NOT hit the range during the hottest part of the day.
Still, a bad day at the range beats the everliving shit out of a good day at work.
We have a range like that close to my house. That’s why I drive the extra distance to Brighton.
On the other hand, “big bucket of fuck” is going into heavy rotation in my vocabulary.
Comment by Rustmeister — July 11, 2008 @ 7:50 pm
Agreed. “big bucket of fuck” is great.
And I was sweating like you last weekend at the range. My entire shirt was soaked.
Comment by Mike w — July 12, 2008 @ 6:05 pm
Heh.
At least your gun isn’t a wretched, pulsating ball of fuck.
Comment by Tam — July 12, 2008 @ 7:12 pm
Hrmm…. clamp for the rail, linear actuator, microphonic sensor to pick up the hammer hitting home (or just a membrane switch up against the breechface)… and there’s a robotic single-action dry fire assistant.
Comment by drstrangegun — July 13, 2008 @ 11:13 am
How did I know you’d come up with a plan like that? Let me know when the prototype is ready for testing
Comment by TD — July 14, 2008 @ 9:05 pm
Actually, there used to be a pneumatic barrel replacement for the 1911 that did pretty much that for dry-fire practice.
Pull the trigger, and the pneumatics would slam the slide back.
Or, get a Airsoft. Which for a BHP, is very damn expensive, dammit.
Comment by Unix-Jedi — July 19, 2008 @ 12:08 pm