TargetTalk

One who started dropped out, worried about the holding the weight of the pistol with wrists damaged by a fall from a pogo stick a couple years ago and carpal tunnel. After she considered it she became our "Official Scorer, Whose Word Is Law." Last Tuesday morning we went to the town's new ...

It's been quite some months since I posted here, but our small bore pistol team is up and running. We've had the donation of a High Standard "The Victor" (ML serial number!), we've affiliated with the CMP, and people are having a good time learning and shooting. The official name of the gr...

Some time ago I posted that the Supervisors at my Library had formed a pistol team. They're still at it, and doing quite well, thank you. But one of them thinks she may have to drop out. Some years ago she fractured her right wrist very badly. It's healed now and she has all the range of motion in i...

Well, we had six people and myself out to the range this morning. We shot at the 4x4 urethane spinners at 10 meters, which worked very well. One of the people, who had never handled a firearm of any sort before, hit the spinner 8 out of 10 times before she quit for the day. More importantly, they wa...

DC has always wanted the best of both worlds: all the rights of a State and none of the responsibilities. It used to be called "Federal City" and it should be again, simply to remind those who live there that there were good and sufficient reasons (which still pertain) as to WHY it was cre...

To get a gun in NYC you do have to jump through a lot of hoops. You have to know someone who can get you one and pay him or her a lot of money, with no guarantee that the gun will work or be worth anywhere near what you paid for it. I've read the entire slip opinion in Heller -- read it yesterday --...

Perhaps the best thing to do is to boycott Toronto completely. All but one of the Canadians I know support responsible gun ownership and that one is completely against ALL firearms, including use by cops (she migrated North during the Vietnam War era). If you can, boycott everything Toronto and let ...

How does the Mayor of Toronto propose to strengthen US gun control laws? For that matter, how does he propose to have tougher border inspections?

Methinks he's dreaming....

Just Shoot Me Products has shipped my spinner targets, and I have the members of the team eager to start working out on the actual range. We'll be using the 4 x 4 inch blue spinners to start (at 10 meters) and when they get good enough we'll move on to paper targets at the same distance. I'm thinkin...

Sorry -- the above Guest was me.

Thanks! I'll order some. That's what I was looking for -- safety, fun, and skill building.

I don't know about "conservative" exactly. I am sure that there are those in the Idaho library community who think that those at our library are all slightly nuts and this will probably help them prove their point. But we've pulled off some things others have only thought could be done, li...

It has also been my experience that women make better students than men. I remember back around 1959 when one of my old shooting instructors was talking about teaching shooting. All three of his kids, all of whom were NRA Distinguished with target rifle, were in the group. Responding to the question...

Since the two who have some experience haven't fired in years (one was a deputy sheriff and the other took marksmanship in college) and the other five have no experience at all, I thought we'd start with "spinner" targets. This would give them immediate audio and visual confirmation of hit...

We're starting a new club, and a local gun dealer has "filed the papers" with Browning to see if we might get some Buckmarks at lower cost. Of the seven others, two have fired before and the others never have. I'm being looked at as the coach since I've been shooting since 1956 and have ev...

I've been to Camp Perry -- I was on a ship out in Lake Erie and WELL out of the out-of-bounds limits. I've also been past it on land, back when I lived in Ohio. I have been to the National Black Powder Shoots at Friendship several times, although I've never fired competition there. That's a whole 'n...

I just joined the Forum. I live in Pocatello, Idaho where I am the Director of the local public library. The Supervisors are forming a pistol shooting team, for fun, and I've been elected Coach because I've been shooting since 1956 (with gaps now and then). Initially we hope to use Buck Mark pistols...