Hi All,
I'm the "buddy" that Turbo refers to in his first post. The range that we go to in PA has got 6" wide steel posts set up at 50, 100, and 200 yards that they staple sheets of plastic between to which people can affix targets. For handguns, aiming at the posts themselves is great because you can audibly verify a hit about two seconds after launch at 200 yards. As far as those who question Turbo's ability to smack a 6" wide post at 200 yards with a bone stock Glock (except for night sights and a proper recoil spring) ... I've got $100 that says he can smack that post 2 times out of 10 consistantly with no flyers ... those that miss usually do so by a matter of no more than two inches. Me, I'm good for 1 shot out of 10 (at 200 yards) on a good day, which isn't bad, but isn't great either. Oh, and I've also got money that he can hit the 100 yard posts 6 times out of 10.
Keep in mind ... We spent a solid two years pounding ourselves into massive credit card debt on this hobby. We're talking in the hundreds of rounds per week ... no reloads. Then we got a little smarter and discovered a free range in PA, so we started ordering ammo by the cases (note the plural). It is very uncommon for us NOT to go through a thousand rounds in a range visit. I had 14 thousand rounds through my Glock 19 within the first year of owning it, and keep in mind that I was also shooting a .45 Kimber and a 92FS during those times. Then I got a Glock 23 and the 19 sat in the case for a while. The 23 I have now has at LEAST 15 thousand rounds through it while I had the 19, another .45 Kimber, a .40 Kimber, the 92FS, a second 23, a Remington 700VS that had a bent barrell I spent hundreds of rounds on trying to figure out why it didn't shoot straight, and a 1/2 MOA Bushmaster AR (DPMS free floated upper) that saw UNGODLY amounts of brass (I'm on my local gunshops Christmas list, I still get a bottle of wine and a calendar whenver I go). Keep in mind that I can't remember myself going to the range without Turbo, and he's got quite a few years jump on this hobby as well as more range visits than I in my time.
Like I said, I've got money on it ... any takers?
Bill
And please don't start in with the "he's registered himself under another name so that it looks like someone can vouch for him" crap, email me at
[email protected] with any questions.
