A Good Socially Distant Range Trip

Work has been all sorts of slow recently due to the courts being effectively closed, so there's time for other things - Like outdoor recreational activity.

So, this afternoon, since it was a beautiful day, I went to the range and met up with Dean, a fellow lawyer, who brought one of his daughters to the range.

At the range we were easily able to remain 6 feet apart because it's an outdoor range after all.

Shot another 200 rounds through the IWI Masada, practicing drawing from concealment, and 50 rounds through the Glock, no malfunctions for either.

Then I shot 80 rounds through the suppressed M&P Compact just for fun. The magazine for it needs a cleaning but no issues with it either.

Dean ran his Glocks and 1911s, and his daughter shot both and also tried out the Masada. She had a few jams with both due to limp-wristing initially but we fixed that. She found the Masada easier to shoot and easier to hit with due to the Trijicon SRO on it, and interestingly enough, no limp-wrist malfunctions with it.

The neat part about his 1911s is they're homemade. He finishes the 80% frames at home and then builds them up himself.

One of them has an extractor problem on loading the first round, and you have to hammer the slide forward by hitting it with your hand each time, but it then loads and shoots all subsequent rounds with no issues. Trigger is crunchy and heavy, but it works, and it hits to the point of aim of the sights. It's a bit of a part mix-master with some Wilson parts as components of the build, but it all fit together. Once he gets the extractor bug worked out they should be rather serviceable. Interesting to see what can be done at home these days.

We had a good time at the range and then we headed our separate ways.