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Hi, I finally got to try out my new toy.
In my checkered past I pretty much shot only long guns and revolvers. We farm, kinda, and my old Stevens single-shot .22 has done most of the work, including taking out marauding raccoons around the henhouse. My dad had found it, broken, along the track, working as a lineman, and re-blued it and stocked it for my nine-year old shoulder. What dads are for!! 8) He also gave me decades later, as a memento, his Schmidt .357 single-action cannon.
I can shoot that, but if I strap it on I'll walk in circles, like the girl in True Grit.
I've run into a few situations and decided it was time to get my CHL, so I did, and went to the gun show -- I admit I was looking for a Bersa Thunder, but all they had were blues, and I fell in love with a K-T chrome slide ... and am now the proud owner of a J-series P-3AT.
Women have the reputation of not liking this gun after they shoot it, but I was curious to see if it would work for me; I need small, but a .32 seems a little too marginal. I think it helps that I'm kinda strong -- fought forest fires in the 80s -- no, I'm not young.
So, yes, I've now shot a box. a. If I pull back with my left hand on my right hand while pushing the right forward, there,s not too much flip. b. I shot Win 88gr FMJ to start with. c. NO FTFs or FTEs. d. I DID hit the paper BG, but mostly low and to the right. He took 1 hit to the chest, 1 to the left shoulder, and was gutshot five times with my first magazine.
I think I'll call her Gutshot Gertie, what d'ya think?
In my checkered past I pretty much shot only long guns and revolvers. We farm, kinda, and my old Stevens single-shot .22 has done most of the work, including taking out marauding raccoons around the henhouse. My dad had found it, broken, along the track, working as a lineman, and re-blued it and stocked it for my nine-year old shoulder. What dads are for!! 8) He also gave me decades later, as a memento, his Schmidt .357 single-action cannon.
I can shoot that, but if I strap it on I'll walk in circles, like the girl in True Grit.
I've run into a few situations and decided it was time to get my CHL, so I did, and went to the gun show -- I admit I was looking for a Bersa Thunder, but all they had were blues, and I fell in love with a K-T chrome slide ... and am now the proud owner of a J-series P-3AT.
Women have the reputation of not liking this gun after they shoot it, but I was curious to see if it would work for me; I need small, but a .32 seems a little too marginal. I think it helps that I'm kinda strong -- fought forest fires in the 80s -- no, I'm not young.
So, yes, I've now shot a box. a. If I pull back with my left hand on my right hand while pushing the right forward, there,s not too much flip. b. I shot Win 88gr FMJ to start with. c. NO FTFs or FTEs. d. I DID hit the paper BG, but mostly low and to the right. He took 1 hit to the chest, 1 to the left shoulder, and was gutshot five times with my first magazine.
I think I'll call her Gutshot Gertie, what d'ya think?
