{"id":1325,"date":"2007-05-30T19:18:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T03:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/30\/shooting\/"},"modified":"2011-10-02T03:10:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T10:10:30","slug":"shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/30\/shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/m9.jpg\" title=\"m9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/m9.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"m9.jpg\" class=\"imageframe\" align=\"right\" height=\"144\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a> weekend Charlotte and I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chabotgunclub.com\/\">Chabot Gun Club<\/a>. We shot a total of about 60 rounds through my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berettausa.com\/\">Beretta<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M9_pistol\">M9<\/a> pistol. We both had quite a lot of fun. And it was a beautiful drive. Now it sits, safely locked in a Gun Vault next to the bed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m disappointed that I never got to fire the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keltecweapons.com\/\">Keltec<\/a> SU-16CA or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bushmaster.com\/\">Bushmaster<\/a> AR-15 I had previously owned. A few things conspired to make that happen.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> When moving to CA, I got the Keltec though I really wanted something smaller. Just as I was moving here, San Francisco was voting on, passing and then having struck down a handgun prohibition. I was interested in getting a handgun but decided on the Keltec in the interim. I almost got the Ruger Mini 14 but&#8230; didn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/ar-15.jpg\" title=\"ar-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/ar-15.thumbnail.jpg\" title=\"ar-15.jpg\" alt=\"ar-15.jpg\" class=\"imageframe\" align=\"right\" height=\"200\" width=\"133\" \/><\/a>NJ has a ban on &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; so I couldn&#8217;t very well bring the AR-15 to the range when I lived there. It sat in storage for several years.<\/li>\n<li>In Boston I never felt a need to practice with the AR-15. Having it was enough insurance for me. I went to a range once and fired (one of) Trav&#8217;s AR-15s and confirmed that it is a very easy gun to navigate. I recall vividly at the indoor range that I kept hitting ti<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/minisafedeluxe.jpg\" title=\"minisafedeluxe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/minisafedeluxe.thumbnail.jpg\" title=\"minisafedeluxe.jpg\" alt=\"minisafedeluxe.jpg\" class=\"imageframe\" align=\"left\" height=\"99\" width=\"120\" \/><\/a>ght groups 1 1\/2 inches below the bullseye. Eventually I figured it out. It&#8217;s an indoor range only about 50 yards long.  The sight is 1 1\/2 inches above the barrel. I was hitting <strong>exactly<\/strong> what I was aiming at. Had my target been at 200 or 300 yards, I would have put holes right in the center of the paper, but at 20 and 50 yards, the bullet is still rising. Of course I could eventually do better but 1 1\/2 inches is plenty close enough for a start.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(PS. I photoshopped the serial # off my Beretta in the photo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend Charlotte and I went to the Chabot Gun Club. We shot a total of about 60 rounds through my new Beretta M9 pistol. We both had quite a lot of fun. And it was a beautiful drive. Now it sits, safely locked in a Gun Vault next to the bed. I&#8217;m disappointed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}