Damn!
Who needs semi-automatic?
Years ago my dad who was a local police oficer came across a deal on a Colt 1911 .45 Cal. Pistol which he got for me...
Before giving it to me dad insisted that we go to the police range so he could go over proper gun handling techniques.
Bear in mind that I had just gotten out of the service about a year earlier and had been stationed in Idaho which at the time was a place where you could walk into the local bank with a pistol strapped on and it wouldn't even raise an eyebrow...
We had both sports there...
Hunting and fishing...
My landlord who I really never paid rent to...
(he was a realtor that supplied endless side jobs, some cash, some free rent, some barter, always a great deal)
Owned a pawn shop and collected many guns from it.
Any time I wanted I could borrow (for forever if I wanted to) anything in his collection at home or that was for sale in the store.
I did a
little bit of shooting!
Anvway back to dad's teaching me how to shoot...
He pulls out his service revolver a Smith and Wesson Model 19 .357 Magnum demonstrates a stance and squeezes the trigger painfully slow and fires a round. We were shooting at a Silhouette Law Enforcement Target and he winged the perp in the shoulder right in the 7 ring...
He then turns to me and says, "Do you think you can do that..."
I say, "I don't know dad... I'll give it a try..."
I slowly got into position, looking over to him as if to say, "Am I doing this right."
Then I started rapidly firing the Colt. Every time it lined up on the target after a recoil I fired another round. I emptied the first clip, ejected it on the ground grabbed a second clip had in my pocket reloaded, emptied the second clip, reloaded with a third clip and emptied that too all in a few seconds...
We pulled the target back and as we were doing that he was telling me how I should have shot slower and aimed better...
We got the target back and there was not a single hole in it less than the 9 ring except the one I put in the forehead. That was the first shot that I took my time on...
He muttered something about me being a wise a....
We spent the rest of the day getting dad some lessons.
He got a little faster and more accurate...
Good thing we were in a small town and his shooting skills were never needed...