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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 10:55:15 GMT -5
That I am, and the sweet little Combat Commander didn't let me down. My own ignorance did when I lost count of rounds fired a couple of times. That's where the high-cap guns have the advantage. You don't have to stop and reload as often. However, I qualified and that's all that matters. And the State Police were nice enough to give me 60 rounds of THEIR ammo to use --- reloaded, of course.
Interesting that in my 10 years, I have never shot on Retiree Day before! All the other times I mixed in with active cops. I never saw so many old geezers with guns in one place before!!! I lost count ...... around 300, I'd say. One guy close to me was 74. We had to shoot in relays. One guy who shot ahead of me was using a walker!!! There were only 50 firing stations available at one time, and when the relay in front of me was shooting, it sounded like WW III. I was in Relay 3, and I don't know how many behind me were there. I fired my course, got my score and skedaddled.
A cursory visual check of folks as I was walking around waiting showed that Glocks outnumbered every other handgun by a large margin, and a few brave folks were using revolvers. There was one woman who carried her revolver in a competition rig, and she obviously knew what she was doing! For any bigots who might be reading this, YES ....... there were Black retirees out there as well, even Black WOMEN. There was one guy who made the Duck Dynasty boys look clean shaven! What a great collection of great people that I was honored to be in the midst of!
One bummer note: On the drive home while doing 70 in a 65, I got passed like I was standing still by a BMW, which came up behind and then passed a marked LSP unit. A few minutes up the road, the trooper pulled the BMW over and I laughed as I passed them. THEN, in the rearview mirror, I saw blue lights begin flashing on the BMW's grille, and saw it merge back into traffic, and soon passed me again!!! And that folks, is why cops get a bad name. If I had flown past a marked unit, I would have been stopped and PROBABLY written up.
Oh well, I made it home in one piece, unticketed, I am requalified, and it is sunny & clear here. LIFE IS GOOD!!!!!
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Post by daleko on Mar 31, 2017 11:02:39 GMT -5
That I am, and the sweet little Combat Commander didn't let me down. My own ignorance did when I lost count of rounds fired a couple of times. That's where the high-cap guns have the advantage. You don't have to stop and reload as often. However, I qualified and that's all that matters. And the State Police were nice enough to give me 60 rounds of THEIR ammo to use --- reloaded, of course.
Interesting that in my 10 years, I have never shot on Retiree Day before! All the other times I mixed in with active cops. I never saw so many old geezers with guns in one place before!!! I lost count ...... around 300, I'd say. One guy close to me was 74. We had to shoot in relays. One guy who shot ahead of me was using a walker!!! There were only 50 firing stations available at one time, and when the relay in front of me was shooting, it sounded like WW III. I was in Relay 3, and I don't know how many behind me were there. I fired my course, got my score and skedaddled.
A cursory visual check of folks as I was walking around waiting showed that Glocks outnumbered every other handgun by a large margin, and a few brave folks were using revolvers. There was one woman who carried her revolver in a competition rig, and she obviously knew what she was doing! For any bigots who might be reading this, YES ....... there were Black retirees out there as well, even Black WOMEN. There was one guy who made the Duck Dynasty boys look clean shaven! What a great collection of great people that I was honored to be in the midst of!
One bummer note: On the drive home while doing 70 in a 65, I got passed like I was standing still by a BMW, which came up behind and then passed a marked LSP unit. A few minutes up the road, the trooper pulled the BMW over and I laughed as I passed them. THEN, in the rearview mirror, I saw blue lights begin flashing on the BMW's grille, and saw it merge back into traffic, and soon passed me again!!! And that folks, is why cops get a bad name. If I had flown past a marked unit, I would have been stopped and PROBABLY written up.
Oh well, I made it home in one piece, unticketed, I am requalified, and it is sunny & clear here. LIFE IS GOOD!!!!!
Concragts. Undercover car confiscated after a bust? Drugs?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 11:48:52 GMT -5
That I am, and the sweet little Combat Commander didn't let me down. My own ignorance did when I lost count of rounds fired a couple of times. That's where the high-cap guns have the advantage. You don't have to stop and reload as often. However, I qualified and that's all that matters. And the State Police were nice enough to give me 60 rounds of THEIR ammo to use --- reloaded, of course.
Interesting that in my 10 years, I have never shot on Retiree Day before! All the other times I mixed in with active cops. I never saw so many old geezers with guns in one place before!!! I lost count ...... around 300, I'd say. One guy close to me was 74. We had to shoot in relays. One guy who shot ahead of me was using a walker!!! There were only 50 firing stations available at one time, and when the relay in front of me was shooting, it sounded like WW III. I was in Relay 3, and I don't know how many behind me were there. I fired my course, got my score and skedaddled.
A cursory visual check of folks as I was walking around waiting showed that Glocks outnumbered every other handgun by a large margin, and a few brave folks were using revolvers. There was one woman who carried her revolver in a competition rig, and she obviously knew what she was doing! For any bigots who might be reading this, YES ....... there were Black retirees out there as well, even Black WOMEN. There was one guy who made the Duck Dynasty boys look clean shaven! What a great collection of great people that I was honored to be in the midst of!
One bummer note: On the drive home while doing 70 in a 65, I got passed like I was standing still by a BMW, which came up behind and then passed a marked LSP unit. A few minutes up the road, the trooper pulled the BMW over and I laughed as I passed them. THEN, in the rearview mirror, I saw blue lights begin flashing on the BMW's grille, and saw it merge back into traffic, and soon passed me again!!! And that folks, is why cops get a bad name. If I had flown past a marked unit, I would have been stopped and PROBABLY written up.
Oh well, I made it home in one piece, unticketed, I am requalified, and it is sunny & clear here. LIFE IS GOOD!!!!!
Concragts. Undercover car confiscated after a bust? Drugs? Thanks, bro, and I have no idea. That sounds like a possibility since no P.D. except Beverly Hills can afford to run around in Beemers. Either way, the law requires them to run with at least lights on if they plan to blow the doors off of civilian cars.
Reminds me of a quote from Jimmy Page when Led Zeppelin toured the U.S. one time: "Texas is like nowhere else. Our groupies followed our private jet in THEIR private jets."
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Post by daleko on Mar 31, 2017 11:56:18 GMT -5
Concragts. Undercover car confiscated after a bust? Drugs? Thanks, bro, and I have no idea. That sounds like a possibility since no P.D. except Beverly Hills can afford to run around in Beemers. Either way, the law requires them to run with at least lights on if they plan to blow the doors off of civilian cars.
Reminds me of a quote from Jimmy Page when Led Zeppelin toured the U.S. one time: "Texas is like nowhere else. Our groupies followed our private jet in THEIR private jets."
Feds don't give a hoot 'bout state laws.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 12:18:33 GMT -5
Thanks, bro, and I have no idea. That sounds like a possibility since no P.D. except Beverly Hills can afford to run around in Beemers. Either way, the law requires them to run with at least lights on if they plan to blow the doors off of civilian cars.
Reminds me of a quote from Jimmy Page when Led Zeppelin toured the U.S. one time: "Texas is like nowhere else. Our groupies followed our private jet in THEIR private jets."
Feds don't give a hoot 'bout state laws. I don't know what agency it belonged to. I'm just glad he didn't hit somebody, weaving in and out of traffic like he was. At first I started to pull in behind the trooper to back him up when they stopped, but I figured that might make him nervous, so I decided not to. It always made me nervous when other people would do that to ME.
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Post by daleko on Mar 31, 2017 12:39:26 GMT -5
Feds don't give a hoot 'bout state laws. I don't know what agency it belonged to. I'm just glad he didn't hit somebody, weaving in and out of traffic like he was. At first I started to pull in behind the trooper to back him up when they stopped, but I figured that might make him nervous, so I decided not to. It always made me nervous when other people would do that to ME. We've got State boys here running around in no label Mustangs, BMWs, etc, they secured in busts all along the I-44 drug runway. Part of the deal for them getting involved in and being on the look out for drugs. Sounds like though that it just may have been a youngen. Many have made that poor judgement. The weaving part.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 14:40:14 GMT -5
I don't know what agency it belonged to. I'm just glad he didn't hit somebody, weaving in and out of traffic like he was. At first I started to pull in behind the trooper to back him up when they stopped, but I figured that might make him nervous, so I decided not to. It always made me nervous when other people would do that to ME. We've got State boys here running around in no label Mustangs, BMWs, etc, they secured in busts all along the I-44 drug runway. Part of the deal for them getting involved in and being on the look out for drugs. Sounds like though that it just may have been a youngen. Many have made that poor judgement. The weaving part. The car had tinted windows, but I THINK I got a glimpse of a 40ish white male driving. Like I said, cop or no cop, you don't drive like that unless it is an emergency, in which case at least lights are required.
Unless you are Sonny Crockett.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 15:03:31 GMT -5
With a Bren Ten... How's the eyesight holding up there old timer?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 15:19:55 GMT -5
With a Bren Ten... How's the eyesight holding up there old timer? Actually not that well. It's time for a stronger lens prescription, and my PCP told me I have the beginnings of cataracts a while back. I asked him if I could trade them in on a Subaru and he just smiled. Yes, I am a smart ass with EVERYONE!! That's actually bullshit excuse, because I could see the front sight just fine, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it!
BUT, I will admit to taking a few bad shots because I rushed myself at 25 yards. I lost my shot count during reloading and shot only 11 of 12. They told me to take a makeup shot on the next stage which I did, but from then on out, my concentration was fucked, and I even tried shooting one time with an empty chamber! Do NOT ask how I did that, because the slide locks open on an empty mag. It wasn't my marksmanship as much as mental errors. I need to shoot that course more than once a year.
How about that? I am admitting I am far from perfect. Sometimes you are the bug, and today the range was the windshield.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 22:20:30 GMT -5
With a Bren Ten... How's the eyesight holding up there old timer? Actually not that well. It's time for a stronger lens prescription, and my PCP told me I have the beginnings of cataracts a while back. I asked him if I could trade them in on a Subaru and he just smiled. Yes, I am a smart ass with EVERYONE!! That's actually bullshit excuse, because I could see the front sight just fine, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it!
BUT, I will admit to taking a few bad shots because I rushed myself at 25 yards. I lost my shot count during reloading and shot only 11 of 12. They told me to take a makeup shot on the next stage which I did, but from then on out, my concentration was fucked, and I even tried shooting one time with an empty chamber! Do NOT ask how I did that, because the slide locks open on an empty mag. It wasn't my marksmanship as much as mental errors. I need to shoot that course more than once a year.
How about that? I am admitting I am far from perfect. Sometimes you are the bug, and today the range was the windshield.You have dashed my illusion of Mutt perfection, dammit Jim!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 22:50:15 GMT -5
Actually not that well. It's time for a stronger lens prescription, and my PCP told me I have the beginnings of cataracts a while back. I asked him if I could trade them in on a Subaru and he just smiled. Yes, I am a smart ass with EVERYONE!! That's actually bullshit excuse, because I could see the front sight just fine, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it!
BUT, I will admit to taking a few bad shots because I rushed myself at 25 yards. I lost my shot count during reloading and shot only 11 of 12. They told me to take a makeup shot on the next stage which I did, but from then on out, my concentration was fucked, and I even tried shooting one time with an empty chamber! Do NOT ask how I did that, because the slide locks open on an empty mag. It wasn't my marksmanship as much as mental errors. I need to shoot that course more than once a year.
How about that? I am admitting I am far from perfect. Sometimes you are the bug, and today the range was the windshield. You have dashed my illusion of Mutt perfection, dammit Jim! I sowwy. Sniff, sniff.
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