link to web galleryMrs Wsmc and I have a house guest from Europe, so we're doing all kinds of things American. We loaded up and headed to a secret SoCal location where folks been shootin for years.
To run down the pics...
1- The border patrol set up a checkpoint along I-8 leaving east out of San Diego. This is roughly 70 miles east of SD. They stopped us and asked our citizenship. Mrs and I said America. Guest declared her country and had to produce a passport. Interesting... almost unAmerican to have to show papers to pass. But I'll accept the added security.
2- We arrived to the secret location and set up a canopy for shade and protection from the sun. There were a couple of raindrops, too.
3&4- I started off with the Ruger MkII slab side competition. I shot at some Gatorade bottles we brought. Ended up blowing the lid off of one from about 20 yds.
5&6- Pic during indoc of guest. She did great. Took to the guns pretty well and did not need repeat of the safety procedures I explained (always point down range, never at people, trigger discipline)
7&8- I alternated between 45 yd targets and some setup around 100 yds. Notice the thin vertical black line on the ground just in front of the rocks and to the left... this is kinda what I was shooting at. Also, someone has some Ricky Carmichael action figures that were blown in half, so I set them up at like 30 yards. Heh.
9&10- Mrs gets the AR and shoots at the 45 yd rocks.
11- Mrs hits one of the computer parts already laying around. (we set it up on the rocks) Notice she manages to make it burn. If my pic would have been 1/2 second later, the flames were about the size of the whole board.
12~15- Mrs and Guest work on introducing our Guest to the AR. Ya know, I knew Ms Guest was a well made woman, but upon reviewing these pics, I was like HOLY COW. Hopefully y'all enjoy.
16- Ms Guest shoots the 22 mag wheel gun. She shot pretty well with it, too. Ended up getting about 60 rounds the whole day between the MkII, 22mag, and the lone 223. Anyway, on the 45 yd target, she was able to make a target fall -- and the 22mag shoots pretty high.
17- Mrs Wsmc shootin her CZ75 9mm.
Mrs really likes the AR. She loves and notices its accuracy with and without the red dot sight and really enjoyed making coke cans dance around.