Spent the day shooting guns

Yesterday was spent in the company of Mr. Paul Volkman. Local magician and man of many talents. Over the last year or so that I have come to know Paul and his wife Pat, we have discussed on many occasions the opportunity to go out to the range and shoot some guns. I hadn't been shooting in years but always found it a hoot when I had the chance. Paul and Pat are leaving for Africa later this month to go on Safari.

They live in a beautiful gated community in Woodinville and the morning drive out there was great. We got to the range and Paul wanted to "sight" in his rifles for the upcoming trip. We started out with the the 30 ought 6 rifle at 50 yards trading off between 150 & 180 grain military and hunting ammo. Paul tweaked his rifle sights as I looked through a mini telescope type device at the target and reported what I saw. By the time I got to shoot, he had the firearm performing at top notch. KA POW! BLAM! I fired as I squinted through the large scope and placed the cross hairs. A nice cluster of bullet holes for my first 5 shots. Not bad. We moved on to the 223 Rifle, same procedure using a 55 grain mix (wt. of bullet grain. . . whatever that means). More fun at 50 yards. Then Paul brought some 22 caliber pistols. A couple that looked like toy Lugers, and couple of Olympic 22 Pistols with wooden form fitted handles. No kick, Didn't do so well with these. Difficult for me to effectively use the pistol sights instead of the scope. Popped off a bunch of rounds. Then on to a serious handgun an old WWII Military issue 45. WOW, powerful weapon! Once again at 50 yards I had trouble hitting my target. So I walked up to the target and point blank popped a cap in that targets ass! Great fun as I plowed through a few clips.

Back to the Rifles. We moved the target to 100 yards and worked the same tow rifles as before. I was nailing it! Later we moved the target to 200 yards. This was my last cluster of the day with the 30 ought 6, at two hundred yards (A VERY long way away). 9 out of 10 shots landing on the target!



After our day of shooting the Volkman's invited me for cocktails and dinner at their home, we had a wonderful time. After dinner we all went to Monday Night Magic where I performed a 10 minute set to ope the show.