Point and Shoot:

Last article I did on weapons I promised a forth coming article talking about my favorite shooting events and how I like to shoot and what not. Well if I told you that I liked straight up competitions I would be lying to you. I live for reenactment style shooting like SASS league stuff even though I haven’t been able to get in to any of their events (lack of funds for costumes and what not). So cowboy action shooting and the like is definitely my bag as is civil war reenactments and what not. I also like more modern reenactments and full out tactical shooting and combat pistol and shotgun. I love CQB sims and got the opportunity to do that on a regular basis with infantry guys who ran the local airsoft teams. Really though my favorite event is what me and my buddy Rob call “The Redneck Classic” less formally known as grab all your guns that have ammo, get a bunch of rotten veggies, computers, vases and whatever other garbage you want to see what a bullet or a 12 gauge load of birdshot will do to it and go find yourself an area in the mountain range where you can safely unload. Once we run out of stuff to explode, if we still have ammo we switch to “illegal game hunter” mode and proceed to pray for a small bird or rodent (like a squirrel) to come out of nowhere and let themselves be destroyed by a round meant for something 80 billion times their size. Usually all the local populace has heard the constant gunfire by the time we get to this stage in the Redneck Classic so Rob and I figure we’re just giving Darwin a helping hand by killing off creatures who haven’t figured out that guns are bad news yet. (most small forest creatures having figured out what guns sounds like and that they are unhealthy about 2.5 seconds after their birth/hatching). This style of shooting really is the most fun in my personal opinion because the results are gratifying (raise your hand if you’ve fantasized about shooting a computer. come on, you know you have) the attitude is far more relaxed then some crazy international super competition sponsored by Gun Manufacturer X and all the insane prizes or whatever. It’s just shooting for the pure enjoyment of it. For the record I like one measured distance event. The military 500 yard slow fire from the prone position. With iron sites I regularly hit the B-mod style silhouette target in the heart, head and vitals. That’s pretty awesome on a man sized target at 500 yards. It’s also a serious power trip when you realize that you can shoot someone in the head, unaided by optics from 5 football fields away. The word “awesome” just doesn’t measure up to the task…

Quote of the Post:

“Guns don’t kill people… but they sure do help”
-Paul Giamatti as Hertz in Shoot’em Up