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Monday, January 11, 2010

The Death of the Mighty Balloon

OK, so we met out there and I put down some tarps to catch the .45 & .380 brass.
I set up my little oak table that I lug out there because there's NOTHING to set stuff on but the ground...
We started cutting off the balloons from the ice, and... it started to snow!

We tossed them all at the foot of the berm and then put a dozen or so clays all over, too.
We shot her Bersa .380, her Springfield .45, my 22A, and my Remmy 870.

The shotgun just chipped and cracked the ice. The rest of them blasted them to smithereens. Even the lowly .22!

Here's before pics:


Here's a pic after a 20ga hit:


Here's an after:


We didn't think to get out her SKS until after everything was gone...
except her coffee cup from the gas station.
So we set it up on the hill in a little snow pocket and took turns being mad because neither one of us could hit it.
After we emptied on it, we ran down to see what the heck...
Then we found this:

11 comments:

=I: )> said...

Any ammo left?

Annie said...

Sure there is!
Gotta have some for NEXT time!!

Dan from Madison said...

Those are some tiny holes in that cup. Look like .22lr. What caliber is that sks anyway?

Annie's shooterchick friend. said...

My SKS shoots 7.62 x 39.
The holes in the front are a LOT smaller than the holes in the back! :)

That thing is a lot of fun to shoot. Emptied a 30 rd mag in less than 5 minutes (Due to not knowing we were hitting the cup in the first place.) :)

Gerry from Valpo said...

How do you like that little Bersa? I love mine. Paid $260 for it at Gander Mountain three years ago.

Dan from Madison said...

Agree with Gerry, that Bersa is a very good gun for the money.

Annie's ShooterChick said...

LOVE it.
I was actually more accurate with it than my 1911 (which I've had 4 months longer and trained with.).

It's small enough to conceal And slim enough that it's comfortable to carry.
I no longer feel like I have a rocket on my hip (I was carrying a 5 inch 1911.)!

Annie said...

It is pretty sweet. I coerced her into letting me shoot it...:p Or maybe she just let me. :D
It was lighter than it looked to me, but for all the lightness, there wasn't a great amount of recoil that I was expecting. I've never shot a .380 before. I was expecting it to snap back like my Kahr PM9 did.
That Bersa was pleasant to shoot.

Must be something to them...my brother just bought three with sequential serial numbers for $200 bucks each and gave one to each of his kids at Christmas. He's teaching his daughter to shoot with one.

BTW, I love how my ShooterChick Friend went from "Annie's Shooterchick Friend" to "Annie's ShooterChick". I think that means I own her now.
Either that...or in some countries we're married now.
:p

Road Warrior said...

"(Due to not knowing we were hitting the cup in the first place.) :)"

Ladies, ladies, ladies.....one shoots, there other has a set of binoculars. ;-)

Annie's ShooterChick. OWNED. said...

I'm Owned! :)

Road Warrior...We were sitting close enough that we thought the cup would fall over.. or be blasted away. No go.

Next time...
binoculars= CHECK.

Annie said...

I always have binocs in my range bag,
but like my ShooterChick(hehe) says, we were actually too close to need them.
If it had been a solid colored cup, we'd have seen the holes as they were being shot...we were that close.