Arming Nestlandia, cont’d…
SO….We’ve finally become comfy enough around guns to keep them loaded in the house. Because you know, an unloaded gun isn’t really a gun, and there may not be time to load it in an emergency.
I put a notice by the gun to remind me. Will keep that up for a while. Seems like a silly thing to need to do, but I’ve been practicing loading dummy shells so long that grabbing the gun from the corner and flipping it around has become second nature, so I need to un-do that thinking.
Also, we went and fired our new pistols today. Took a one-hour lesson, then shot 125 rounds each, at 25 feet. We were pretty good for first time with new guns. (DJ and I have both fired pistols before, but it’s been many years.) I think we did pretty good, below is the last target we did…the 10 head shots are mine, the 30 center body shots are DJ’s (she’s a better shot than me):
I actually think that shooting with the shotgun made us better shots with pistols. I wasn’t sure it would transfer over, but I think it did.
We shoot without our glasses, as we want to practice under adverse conditions, rather than under optimum conditions.
After shooting that much, we both felt kind of mellow and excited at the same time. Kinda high almost. Went to McDonalds drive through on the way home, then both napped, hard, for an hour and a half.
When we woke up, we took the guns apart to clean and oil them:
I found an amazingly helpful video on YouTube, here, on the disassembly of this particular model. I love the video, it’s the only one this dude’s put up on YouTube, but it blows most “how-to” videos about anything out of the water. It’s very no-nonsense, and shows you exactly how to take it apart and put it back together.
It’s not that hard once you see it done, but I really doubt I could have figured it out on my own, and the owner’s manual that came with the guns is pretty useless. It’s not for our particular model, but rather a generic manual for all Smith & Wesson pistols.
We’re really enjoying the handguns, and plan to shoot at least 125 rounds a night each, two nights a week, until we’re really really good.
The handguns somehow feel more like “guns” to me. Maybe because I used to associate handguns with criminals but associated shotguns with my kindly old grandfather. Or maybe it’s because the bullet and the noise come out closer to your ears than with a shotgun (even though a shotgun is louder).
We love our new hobby, and love that there’s a lot to learn. I’d kinda gotten bored with filmmaking and audio production, because I know so much about both. It’s nice to have a new hobby. And our hands hurt from loading, shooting and taking the guns apart. We got little raw spots on the tip of our thumbs from loading all those bullets into the mags….It sort of reminds me of when I first started playing guitar, when I was 14, and the pads of my fingers would be sore after, but I got callous and the pain eventually went away.
I think it will work the same with this.
(Coming in 2010:$30 Gun School. lol…)
MEW!
MWD and DJD
September 8th, 2008 at 9:11 am
(Coming in 2010:$30 Gun School. lol…)
I don’t doubt it one bit.
marion
September 11th, 2008 at 7:54 am
what if someone did in fact break into your house again and you have loaded guns lying around with signs saying”loaded”next to them?
nor do i understand the idea of broadcasting your choices and impliments of home defense in such a public manner
to some degree you have lost one of the most crucial elements-that of suprise
also having loaded guns around is never a good idea unless you deal drugs and live in compton.watts,englewood or the projects and or a war zone such as iraq or afghanastan
September 11th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
removed the sign and hid the gun. Thanks.
Not too worried about broadcasting my choices on the internet. It’s pretty hard to figure out where I live, and my neighbors don’t pose any threat and probably don’t even know my name. I pretty much blend in, and don’t talk to anyone.
I live a 40-minute drive from Compton, and cars are easy to come by. Even easier to steal than a gun. People occasionally come out to the burbs from the hood to commit crimes. More and more lately, judging from the crime stats in this town.
I see no reason not to have loaded guns around….an unloaded gun is not a gun. And if you need it in a quick home defense situation, there may not be time to load it.
Me and the wife have no kids, no roommates, no one else has keys or access to our house. We’re sane, sober, calm, are not angry people, never argue, not suicidal, and practice all the rules of gun safety (Including checking to make sure it’s not loaded when handed to us, even if we know it’s unloaded, and never point it at anyone, even if it’s empty.) Why wouldn’t we want to have loaded guns in the house?