What to do when Laureen is out Black Friday shopping? Hmm, how about a trip to the shooting range ????!
Why not try out a few fully automatic weapons, and some handguns while south of the border?
The Glock 17 was incredibly easy to shoot, and I was surprisingly accurate with it! It is comfortable to hold and easy to rapid fire as a semi-automatic handgun.
After trying out the M4, the next logical move is to a fully automatic weapon :-). The M249 is a fully automatic rifle designed for the infantry front, it takes .556 ammo using a belt magazine. Yep, just like we see in the movies. I did a few small bursts with it, then went into full splatter mode on automatic, shooting at about 900 rounds/minute until my ammo belt ran empty. Besides destroying most of the target, I also ended up in a cloud of gunpowder smoke. Not sure that Eric (my son-in-law in the military) would be very impressed with my accuracy, but it was a lot of fun!
Last one was definitely interesting; it is a Desert Eagle .50 caliber handgun that is basically a hand-held cannon. When you first hold it, you realize just how massive this gun is, and when you fire it, you gain all kinds of respect for the size (and you learn what it feels like to get kicked by a mule). I shot 5 rounds and could feel it in my arm by the time I finished. I started shooting at a new target with this gun, and it is pretty cool seeing the 1/2″ holes that the bullets make.
Sounds like you had just as much fun as Mom on Black Friday haha
I think so :-).
Once again, not an idea I would have come up with. Glad to see you're having a good time.
Thanks Bill! We are having a lot of fun.
Cool, but….I’d rather be shopping!
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Haha, you and Laureen definitely think alike! She was shopping while I was shooting guns :-).