SO !! After work I'm off to the shooting range. Yes, my new hobby of choice is handguns. For real though, last week I heard an ad on the radio about a shooting range like 2 miles from my house that actually lets you RENT guns and use their range. I wondered what KIND of guns they have to rent so I went and checked it out. OH!! OHH!! HOORRRAYYYY!!! It's like a freaking AMUSEMENT PARK of guns!! Oh my gawwd I didn't even know a place like this existed! Every handgun you can think of, antique to brand new, rifles, shotguns, I don't know, just everything. Even a pump action sawed off looking shotgun thing. (it's hot) M-16's, AK 47, you name it they've got it. This must be some sort of NRA wonderland, I don't know how they can do it but they can and I'm in hillbilly heaven!!
With my Dad I've shot a pellet gun, a .22 rifle, a 4-10 shotgun, a 12 gauge and something else shot-gun-y. But I've never shot a handgun. And I've always kinda wanted to ya know? Well maybe you don't but I do. SOOOOO after drooling around the place for a bit I inquired about prices, shit my pants at how cheap it is, and got me some guns to shoot.
EEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was SO FUN!!! I started off small with a .22 revolver then an antique .22 with a clip then a Walter P22 with a clip that I LOVED ! I was pretty accurate (which surprised me to great glee) had a great time and left feeling relaxed and full of joy. Can you believe I'm NOT a republican????
Next time I went I took my BFF Jaybird and hooked her up with my fav. .22. She was a complete crazy bad ass and unloaded her first clip in all of 4.5 seconds flat. After I picked up my jaw off the floor and cleaned the crap out of my pants I started cheering. The helper dude turned to me and said "Well . . . she's lethal." and turned back around. Ahhhaahahahhahahaah !! She went on to unload TWO boxes to my one into her target, all in her break-neck speed shooting style, and this is somewhere in the top 5 of my proudest moments for her. :)I bumped it up a couple of notches and chose a comfy 9mm. Mmmmm I liked it better than the .22 but it was a lot more expensive to buy ammo for - SHIT ! From 3.50 a box to 15. Yowza ya know?
Anyhoo the range attendant dude - that sports a mullet btw which I instantly fell in love with - thinks I'm a little weird and at the same time very cool. He gives me some special attention when I go and pointers and stuff and THIS time with Jaime he casually asks me "Would you like to shoot my gun?" (lol *snort*) I asked what kind he's got and he unholsered his .45. .45 !!!! EEEEEEEE!!!! Holy Cripes !
I asked him if he thought it would knock me on my ass and he said no, that he's seen me shoot and know's I'll be just fine. (and the ego grows) So, scared but not one to be a sissy - EV-VER - I let him walk me through the in's and out's of it. And shot. MMMMmmmmmm Sat-tis-fac-shu-un!! It's recoil wasn't hardly bigger than the 9mm I had been shooting - to my great surprise, and I of course loved it. Obviously.
I wanted Jay-birds first shooting experience to be bad-ass so I offered her to shoot my gun - which of course she did cuz she's no ninny either. AND the dude let her shoot his gun after she came over to see what was up. SO cool !! I think he just liked having some hot chicks hold his gun but what-ev, I'll shot his $.50 a bullet ammo any time :P
After my first time going I started making my own targets - you don't have to buy theirs. Before I went with Jaybird I drew up some fun targets - the bastard taxi driver from a few posts ago - HAAA!!! Asshole!! - My ex-boyfriend (in the form of a monkey), The gramma that disowned me (in the form of a pig) that I got between the eyes - TWICE ! A clown (also got him between the eyes *takes a bow* And another gramma that sux (in the form of a snake.) I'd never draw a real person, it just seems too wrong, but I'll have fun with goofy 2-yr-old-drawings representing them. (ok and for real? Mullet-Man actually ASKED me if my preshcooler drew the target for me ! when I told him I don't have kids he totally made fun of me, and HE WEARS A MULLET!)SO anyhoo I'm off in a couple of hours and I'll be heading over to shoot up some targets I printed off the internet (poor lil bunny fu-fu doesn't stand a chance) with a work pal of mine. He's never shot a gun so I'm pretty excited for him. Next week my gal-boss and our other gal-pal are going and then my Mama's gonna give it a try. Welcome to my hillbilly side. :)
And for REAL guys and gals, if you've never done anything like this I can probably SWWEEAARRR that you'll like it. So many people are afraid of guns but really, if you get yourself educated on them and learn how to use one, it just might make you feel a little better. So go out and find a range!! Come On !!!! Live a little, do something different !
And I'll be damned if I can think of a better way to blow off some steam !! Well. . . lol maybe one. ;)
17 comments:
You scare the shit outta me sometimes, girl.
But seriously, not a Republican? I think Mr. Heston disapproves.
haahahha! it WAS hella fun tho!! oh, and we can't forget about me burning the absolute shit out of my chest with the hot casings from the bullets, not once but twice! aahh, good times!
dude so for real had a mullet and we can't forget about the Hunter Orange shirt with the cut-off shelves with the fringe, can we?!
we can we go back??
i can't spell sleeves :(
First dildos...and now guns??! Careful you don't get the two confused. You could blow your twat off.
Hor, Sweetie, you make me want to fly up to the Mitten State so we can play together (get your mind out of the gutter RIGHT NOW). The guns were damn near my favorite part of my old Customs job. I was an Expert level markswoman, but I haven't been shooting since I quit 15 years ago. F*#k, I miss it soooo much! The Big Guy taught me to shoot, then I joined Customs and they made me GREAT at it. I always thought target shooting was a stupid, noisy, dangerous and expensive way to way to waste time, but since the Big Guy is a cop, he insisted I had to know how to safely handle the guns that were going to be in the house. Right from the first shot, I was completely HOOKED. Girl, you've got me so nostalgic, I just announced to him that he's gonna have to buy me a gun for my birthday this year. Of course, I don't want to wait for December, I may insist on it for the anniversary in October! Oh, and BTW, I'm about as far from Republican as you can get. I just really love a sport that you don't have to be thin to be good at!
Mr. Heston? Like, Charleston? Isn't he a dead dude from way back? Politics or something? Or is that the play-boy bunny guy? I'm lost.
Jaime, you're right I forgot about his ultra-rad shirt. And the spelling thing? Well, that's just another reason why we're BF :P
Dyck - HHHhmmmmmmm there WAS a pretty nice barrel on a bear killing revolver. Not sure if it could take on MY teddy.
Upstate - I think I may be in love with you now. First off you alllllmost made me spit coffee out by telling me to get my mind out of the gutter - for real, and it's EARLY. Thank You for the laugh. :)
Second - OMG I KNOW RIGHT!!??? EEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! Make that man get you an "early" present!!! For real you canNOT wait that long!
OH! OH! What is your favorite gun to shoot? (So far my fav. is the 9mm - but DANG is the ammo expensive compared to the .22!)
Ooo!! And my Birthday is in Dec. too! (aren't Dec. birthdays lame??) AND I think I'm only about .001 % republican (just gimmie the right to bear arms!) so therefore I think you're way way super cool and obviously enlightend and stuff. AND I TOTALLY LOVE what you said at the end, about not having to be a waif to be good at shooting. How TRUE is that? SOOO all of this tells me that you and I are now bad-ass-cool-people-pals. Just so you know. :P
But for real isn't it SO GREAT when you get like a small cluster, right where you want it and you look all Annie Oakley bad ass? I get the biggest kick out of it! It's awesome to be GOOD at something you know?
I absolutely love going to the range! What fun! My first handgun was a Walther PPK/S .380. Our local indoor range also has the Great Big Wall o' Guns. For the price of a box of ammo, you can shoot any of them. My current gun is a Sig Sauer P226 (a 9mm). I love it but will probably be getting the P228 because it has a lower profile and fits better in my purse. Here in Alabama, we can carry (concealed) if we have a permit. I do.
Oh - one more thing. I do love the 45s. I used to go to the range on my lunch break. One of the guys let me shoot his Sig 45. Since I was wearing slick-bottomed shoes, every time I'd fire, it would scootch me back about a quarter of an inch.
Ima - So COOL !! Ooo you southern folks are neato aren't you? You carry in your PURSE??? OMG I would shoot myself. Saftey or no, something bad would happen. But that is cool, my goodness! OH !! HOW COOOOOLL that you went on your lunch break !!! OMG What a stress reliever THAT would be !!!!
The first weapon I ever fired was a Colt .45, Customs issued me a S&W .357 Magnum, and on my own I got both a S&W 9 mil, and a Glock 9 mil. I loved each and every one of them, but I was most accurate with the revolver, so I would have to go for that one. I'm sure part of it was just that the Magnum had the longer barrel, because the revolvers have SOOOO much less recoil. Customs made us qualify 4x per year, and the day I made an Expert score the Big Guy was so proud he had already visited his favorite cop shop and gotten the bar to pin on my uniform before I got home. I have to admit, one of the most satisfying things was that the guys on the range, including a lot of ex-military types, always thought they were so tough and so cool, and here was this chubby chick outshooting them all. Hehehehe!
And yeah, Dec. birthdays seriously suck. One gift "for both days." Ring any bells?
The Blossom
(1)
Merry, merry sparrow!
Under leaves so green,
A happy blossom
Sees you, swift as arrow,
Seek your cradle narrow
Near my bosom.
(2)
Pretty, pretty robin!
Under leaves so green,
A happy blossom
Hears you sobbing, sobbing,
Pretty, pretty, robin,
Near my bosom.
-----by maple story
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Upstate - You surprised me with the revolver choice. I've only shot one revolver but I didn't like it because it was older - like REALLY older and only had the dark iron sites. I couldn't SEE. But I haven't shot a newfangled one yet, maybe I'd like it too I don't know. But for now I love that dang Walter P22 and whatever it was the 9mil that I shot. I tried some other .22's but didn't like them. It's funny how fast you can get attatched to a certain gun.
I know I don't have to tell you of my love of a good handgun, do I?
BTW-You can take a course in TX to get your Conceal and Carry license. I have one, but as you know, I have not carried it much after the Stuckey's incident years ago.
Sassy - Haaaaa!!! Unfortunately I'm WAAYYYYYY too much of a clutz to carry a gun. Plus there's that whole border patrol thing, that wouldn't work so well I'm guessing. :P
YOu just get cooler with every post, gal, honestly you do!
Sparx - Awww why thank you! Maybe one day I'll be up to super dork instead of silly dork. "Moo-vin on UUUUP!!"
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