Did a few dry draws and reloads Friday night.
After the obligatory honey-do's Sat morning, I made it to the range
around 1:00 PM.
Hung 3 IDPA targets in Bay E and began my normal 250-300 rd practice
routine. 3x, 20 yds, 6 shots, 3.5 average, 0 down.
Hey, this roundgun thing is no big deal.
Time to move forward and work on draws, splits, transitions, and reloads.
It was about this time that the education began in earnest.
You can shoot and reload a bottom feeder all day and at no time do you have to grab the parts of the gun that change temperature during firing.
(Read that as gets to HOT TO TOUCH !!!)
However, after firing 5 or 6 full cylinders on a round gun, everything
forward of the hammer and above the trigger guard will fry your appendages.
Why do all the neat reloading vids on the web show how to hold the cylinder with your weak hand and insert the seedloader with your strong hand while doing an IDPA reload?
Furthermore, I also noticed that there seemed to be a lot of excess lube around the yoke area, the cylinder release, and the left side of the grip.
When I joined the military fresh off the farm in Oklahoma, two interesting things I learned about my newly issued dog tags.
1. The notch on the end was to facilitate wedging the tag between my teeth if I was dead on the battlefield.
2. My blood type is A positive.
That's right the excess lube was good ole A+ coming from slices on
both of my thumbs.
Oh well, I'm still going to shoot SSR in the IDPA classifier this month.
I'll be the one with the band aids all over my hands and my gun in a cooler.
, that guy qualifies for an ID ten T award. 