I had the opportunity to buy a Smith and Wesson M&P 15 last week from a guy I used to work with. Since I’ve shot the gun before (and so has my mom, making her cooler than your mom!) I jumpped at the chance. This past Saturday I took it to the range with my friend Joe to try it out. Between the two of us we put about 80 rounds through it, and it was quite apparent that I will need to get a nice bench rest of some kind. The previous owner had a nice bench rest setup and was consistently shooting <1″ groups at 50 yards. I had a small pillow and a box… it was a struggle to shoot a 5″ group at 50 yards.
Joe and I also went to the pistol range and shot my Walther P99 and Ithica M1911A1. It was a fun morning, and I hadn’t spent time with him in a long while. Joe and I have been friends since kindergarden but we haven’t seen much of each other the last 8 years since we lived so far away. We had alot of fun!
While I’m on the topic of guns… my grandpa and I were going through some old boxes he had stored away and he found a box of ammunition for the Springfield 03A3 that had given me a while back. In the box was a full WWII ammunition belt containing 12 stripper clips of original WWII .30-06 cartridges in pristine condition! It also had 8 boxes of .30-06 cartridges, however these have corrosive primers, and half, if not more, of the cartridges were already corroding and would be very unsafe to fire. After seeing the bad primers, I was more than happy to find that the cartridges in the stripper clips were still good.
