Some fellow AR15.COMers and I decided to get together and shoot a little this afternoon at my home. All 3 of us Lawrence County members (JimTH, DB73, and myself) had a few nice firearms laid out on the trusty ol' picnic table, as I haven't built my new bench yet. I just bring out one firearm per shooting session, as I hate cleaning more than one at a time.
I decided on the AR-10, as the other guys had never fired one. JimTH brought his stainless-barrelled A3 with scope and DB73 brought a scoped A2, a .17HMR rifle, and a .45 Glock. We took turns firing them and aquired quite a pile of brass in the yard. Then a friend of mine was driving by and saw the fun we were having and stopped in with his 16-year old daughter. He got his first trigger time behind an AR-10 as well. His daughter was a little shy around the rifles and declined a chance to shoot anything she wanted. I'd say shooting her dad's 12-gauge for the first time this year made her a little timid. As they were leaving, fellow member Mechaniac showed up, gunless this time.
He blasted away a few rounds from the AR-10 and the Glock. Hey, the story isn't over yet. Then a gentleman whom I met last winter when he pulled my car out of a snow drift in the front yard pulled up. I'd only spoke to him that one time. He'd came today to see if I'd be interested in selling my Bronco. He saw the rifles and said, "Got some machineguns, huh?" I explained that they were semi-auto and proceeded to load him up a mag for the AR-10. After firing 10 rounds, he was grinning from ear to ear. DB73 let him shoot his AR-15 so that he could see the difference between the two calibers. He had limited firearms knowledge and had no experience with either the 5.56 or 7.62. I'd like to think that we have another convert. All in all, it was a good day (except for the wind).