I Love the Taste of Gunpowder in the Morning

Have a look at this:

Kahr - 20 shots at 30 feet

What you’re looking at right there is 20 shots from my Kahr P40 this morning. It was pretty cold out - around 30 degrees, so I stopped at Dunkin and grabbed myself a large hazelnut coffee to keep warm while I’m throwing some lead down range. I finish about half of it before I even get the gear unpacked at the range.

I take the lid off the top, set it down on a small table next to me, and start taking shots at this target which was about 30 feet away. Drinking coffee, taking shots, drinking coffee, taking shots. Nobody else is around. I’m nailing the black on the target and I’m feeling way in the zone.

All in all, that’s not a bad group from a 3.5″ barrel. I take about 10 shots, and I finish up the coffee … and as I’m swallowing it down, something hits my face.

A hazelnut-smelling spent case roaming around the bottom of my coffee cup. Really screwed me up. The P40 ejects spent cases a loooong way. I was at least 10 feet from that cup. Didn’t hear it splash or anything. Probably couldn’t do it again if I tried, but one of those first ten shots was a Dunkin hole-in-one.

My very next shot? That off target bastard you see in the bottom right corner. Damn!

Liberty on November 25th 2007 in Boomsticks!

2 Responses to “I Love the Taste of Gunpowder in the Morning”

  1. Robb Allen [Visitor] responded on 26 Nov 2007 at 5:45 am #

    I live in Florida. At 30° I cease to function and require a furnace and about 4 sweaters to even think about moving.

    When I say “from my cold dead hands”, it probably also applies to just “cold”.

  2. Liberty [Member] responded on 26 Nov 2007 at 7:21 am #

    Cease to function at 30? Yikes. I’d have to move away 5 months out of the year. To give you an idea - the dirt road to the range was a sheet of ice yesterday.

    Saw that great picture of you and the girls on Thanksgiving - not wearing jackets. Heh. We had snow.

    I’ll snap a photo of the mercury when it hits 20 below here in Jan/Feb. Now THAT is freeze-yer-nipples-off cold first thing in the morning.

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