One thing about jet lag, you tend to get up earlier than usual.
A morning range trip was in order so Leah and I headed out to the range early this morning.
In addition to the M&P compact .22 with Gemtech that Leah loves, she got to shoot a used while new-to-me and to her firearm - a Springfield Armory 1911 9mm.
It just so happened she was wearing her Springfield Armory Shoot Like A Girl t-shirt and it matched the pistol nicely.
She really liked the pistol and handled it with no issues.
As acquired it turned out it is setup with a popsicle type sight picture and I'll likely adjust it to a center hold. While used aside from a couple scratched in the finish you can hardly tell its been fired and it likely wasn't fired much if at all before I acquired it from its previous owner. It has a very smooth action once it was cleaned and oiled, and aside from an initial couple failures to extract the fired case from the chamber on the second-to-last round from one of the 9 round magazines, it eventually stopped malfunctioning after a few magazines were run through it. Recoil is very light when chambered in 9mm from a full-sized 1911 and Leah pronounced the trigger to be excellent and stated it really was quite nice to shoot.
Leah's target:
I shot the P30Sk and it had no malfunctions after 100 rounds through it, making it to 550 rounds with one failure (round 22) not due to the firearm. The trigger takes some getting used to after shooting the Springfield 9mm. Leah also shot the P30sk and with some coaching was hitting the target but initially was dropping the shots very low due to the long trigger pull.
A very nice time at the range.
1 comment:
Hey Aaron;
Any day at the range is a good day. I remembered when I bought my springfield .45 in the mid 80's and first went to the range, well that pistol, jammed, stovepiped, feed failures out the behinie. It really pissed me off. Well I went and bought 400 rounds of ball ammo and went back to the range and fired off the entire amount. Toward the end, besides being very filthy, the pistol functioned flawlessly. That tells me that it just had to get "broke in". Yours is probably the same way, the last owner didn't fire it much.
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