gary reeder
Glad to hear you say that John, not glad it is happening
Saturday, June 20, 2020, 19:21

but glad to see someone else is having to change their way of thinking on their favorite guns.

I am trying to plan one of our combat shoots if they ever open up the national forest again. Our shoot is in an arroyo (ditch for you yankees) with bushes and cactus and stuff growing up each side. The targets are stashed in the bushes on each side and are not visible until you get right on them. Some are 20 yards away, while some are right at your feet. The bottom is deep sand. We run up the arroyo (gully to you southern boys) and shoot at full size picture targets of bad guys and hostage targets. Some of the hostage targets have about 1/3 of the bad guys head visible over the hostage, so your shots have to be placed just right. A dead hostage is a no no. One bad guy is peeking around the edge of a door and you have a max of 1 1/2" of his face to hit.

I brought a couple of my long slides up to the shop recently and after work did some semi fast shooting and boy was I disappointed. At 20 yards my semi rapid fire groups were in the 4 inch range instead of the 2" range that was "normal". This was with 10mm and 45 Longslides. I have said it before but this just enforces it.."growing old isn't for pussies".