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A friend and I went to the range the other day to shoot my newish Ruger SR9c, a rental Ruger LC9, and his XD9SC. We fired off a couple hundred rounds through each when this other guy and his friend enter the range and go into the bay next to us. I don't pay too much attention at first when they start firing until he brings the target back in and I notice the holes are all over it. I'm not really sure he even hit in any of the circles much less close to the X. He reloaded his magazine and sent out a clean target and I watched as he spread his legs out, pushed his arms way out in front and aimed. I swear, from 6 feet away I could literally see the barrel vibrating as his nervousness traveled down his arms to the gun before each shot. After he fired off the magazine he turned to his buddy and gleefully said, "This is great stuff man. You wanna try it." To which his buddy declined.

The funny thing is, on the other side was an instructor giving lessons to a young lady and he saw the target. He told the young lady to hold on a minute and asked the guy about his gun. The guy informed him that he bought the gun the day before and was just now firing it. The instructor then very nicely told him he was there giving lessons and asked if he could give the guy a few pointers. The guy said sure and the instructor proceeded to show him how to stand, grip and aim. He fired it a few times to show him how and then let him fire again. Bam, right in the X. Twice. Then the instructor let the guy fire his .45. What an extremely nice instructor. And professional to boot. He wasn't pretentious about it. He didn't act like he was better than everyone there.

I wish he'd been around when I started. No moral of the story here. Just a story is all.