Well, I got to hit a range up this weekend. Called a few ranges, and most of them were booked. One that was close and not full was also the most expensive one. $25 just to be there, $3-$5 a target you must buy, and you must buy their ammo. $40 a box of 50 for 9mm or .380 acp. Yah pretty expensive.
Still, I wanted some practice so I did the dumb thing in a way and went to the over priced range. It was a nice indoor handgun range though. 45 yard was max range.
I fired my Taurus PT92, PT111, and my sig p238 for the first time there. Did 50 rounds in each (yah $120 for all that I know). The PT92 was just nice to shoot. I had one FTE on the very first shoot. After that nothing. The sight was lined up great and I was punching holes exactly where I wanted them. However, with the last 10 rounds or so, I had 4 or 5 shots not reset the trigger back at all. I would pull to shoot, it would fire, I would let off the trigger for it to reset but the trigger wouldn't go back. So I had to pull the trigger out and then it would be good to shoot again. Very strange and not sure what causes that.
I switched over to the PT111. I will say, the sights on it need adjustment. A bit to the left and low. I knew it typically shots low from reviews with cheap 115g ammo. Maybe the proper 124g ammo would be more accurate. Only problem I had with the gun was that if I shot too fast, the gas from the shot would pop the magazine out. I had it happen 3 times. The first time it happened I thought it was my fault in hitting the mag release or something. So I cleared the error, and went at it again. It happened again, but I thought I was paying more attention to not touching the mag release. So after that second attempt, I called the range master over to watch me and see if he noticed I was pressing the mag release. While he was watching the mag popped out and my fingers were no where near the mag release (I was almost comical about it). We both made sure the mag was secure before I started firing fast while he was watching. Not sure what the problem is with it. I can't pull the mag when I secure it manually. I'll need to go to a range where I can use my own ammo and see what happens once I put a few hundred rounds through it. If it continues I'll have to have Taurus look at it I guess.
For the last gun I used my p238. That gun, for as small as it was, shot awesome. I only had 2 FTE's but both were when I was using the colt mustang mag I bought and not the sig mags. The colt mustang mag gave me a fte on the last shot both times I tried it.
The other thing was with my p238, I decided to do a practice CHL qual test. The lady in the lane next to me with her husband was doing her actual qualifying test for her CHL. Her husband was a cop too and she was a doctor. Anyhow, I was watching her do a few practice runs before the pre-qual. I saw what she was doing with having the target machine flip the target to the side and back out to be shot every few seconds at varying ranges. So with the sig p238, I asked the range master if I could also set my machine up the same way for shits and giggles. The way the qualification works for CHL here is the following:
3 yard line - 20 shots:
1 shot in 2 seconds, 5 times
2 shots in 3 seconds, 5 times
5 shots in 10 seconds, once
7 yard line - 20 shots:
5 shots in 10 seconds, once
1 shot in 3 seconds, 5 times
2 shots in 4 seconds, once
3 shots in 6 seconds, once
5 shots in 15 seconds, once
15 yard line - 10 shots:
2 shots in 6 seconds, once
3 shots in 9 seconds, once
5 shots in 15 seconds, once
A max possible score is 250 and only 170 is needed to pass. The lady next to me did good at 223 points. For me trying it for the first time? I got a 250. The guy at the range said he never seen anyone do that. The cop next to me said he hadn't seen anyone do that or thought even he could shoot a perfect score. 😀 All done with a little p238 handgun.
The guy in the other lane next to me saw the score and bought me box to see if I could shoot everything in the center still with that p238 at the max 45 yard range. I still did with 4 inch grouping at 45 yards with that p238. Using winchester white box .380 acp ammo. I'm a bit proud of my self 😛
