Home on the Range

A while back, Andrew bought us a groupon for a gun range experience.  We've had the groupon for a long time and always found some reason not to use it.  Well, we finally decided to head on over and try it out and man am I glad we did.  The groupon included a shooting package for two people.  We got one .22 caliber hand gun, 50 rounds each and two targets.  Of course, if you know Andrew and I at all, it immediately became a competition.

I was quite timid because guns scare the you-know-what out of me but the staff at the gun range were amazing and they walked us through how you load the gun, how to hold it when you fire and then how to aim for the target.  Of course, my first couple of rounds were slightly off but as soon as I got the hang of it, that target was in trouble.

Here are some bullets and our targets at the end of the range.

Andrew was a natural as well.  It was quite scary how two people, who had never shot a .22 before, could pick it up so quickly.  That realization just made me more afraid of guns.

We took turns shooting 10 rounds each.  For the first twenty rounds we aimed for the center bullseye, then for the head, then for the small red targets to the side of the head and finally for the red targets in the bottom corners.  Can you spot the shell casing flying in the above picture?

This is a picture of my target after we shot at his head.  My poor guy didn't make it.  Better luck next time, sir.

We had a fantastic time and hopefully we'll go back again someday.  I think we'll probably pick different targets next time.  They had zombie targets.  I want to shoot at zombies!!  All in all, it was a fun Saturday morning.