Late in December 2015 my father and I were looking for something new we could do together. We both have always been interested in target and tactical training with handguns. In late January of 2015 my father and I signed up for a gun safety class at The Place To Shoot in Portland, Oregon. They supplied a multitude of different handguns to learn with as part of the training. You did not have own a handgun. In February of 2016, we started to spend two to three days a month working with the professionals at the club honing our skills, developing our accuracy and arranging for further training with the professionals that work at the club. This has definitely been something new for me that past few months and also an activity that my father
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We have to follow gun safety regulations on the firing range with the ability to stage targets from 10 feet to 75 feet on the pistol range. All this is controlled by the electric pulley system that we attach our targets to. No one ever steps on the range. All pistols must always be pointed down range and we have to work with the range master of duty for our questions and training. My first “Aha!”moment came from the shock of getting used to the sound of the cartridge going off followed by the kick of the pistol. I had to keep in mind that if I let a discharge hit the ceiling of the indoor range I would have to pay a $10.00 penalty. At first, my shots strayed, I had difficulty grouping my shots in a three inch circle. My second “Aha!” moment came when I realized I had to adjust slightly in my positioning of how I targeted. I had to make sure my iron sights ran parallel at the same level as the bordering frame of the sight. My third revelation came when I moved the target to its furthest position of seventy feet and I had difficulty grouping my shots. I found I was not gripping my pistol correctly and allowing for the distance in my targeting. Once the instructor corrected this, I found my groupings were much
We have to follow gun safety regulations on the firing range with the ability to stage targets from 10 feet to 75 feet on the pistol range. All this is controlled by the electric pulley system that we attach our targets to. No one ever steps on the range. All pistols must always be pointed down range and we have to work with the range master of duty for our questions and training. My first “Aha!”moment came from the shock of getting used to the sound of the cartridge going off followed by the kick of the pistol. I had to keep in mind that if I let a discharge hit the ceiling of the indoor range I would have to pay a $10.00 penalty. At first, my shots strayed, I had difficulty grouping my shots in a three inch circle. My second “Aha!” moment came when I realized I had to adjust slightly in my positioning of how I targeted. I had to make sure my iron sights ran parallel at the same level as the bordering frame of the sight. My third revelation came when I moved the target to its furthest position of seventy feet and I had difficulty grouping my shots. I found I was not gripping my pistol correctly and allowing for the distance in my targeting. Once the instructor corrected this, I found my groupings were much