Shooting with the Lady Friend.

Well Today was a cooler 65ish degree day and I took The Lady Ides out to the promised shooting session, since she does not get to do that but when she is on a visit my way.

So the range was.. for this time apparently well occupied. Nothing serious but it made it a bit frustrating to try to shoot pistols for a novice shooter, at 25 yards. Since the range was hot and did not have a 15 or 7 yard range available  and we could not shoot closer like we normally do.

Also Aguila Pistol Match ammunition is apparently garbage. Multiple failures to extract/eject from my Kimber 22 conversion for the 1911. Federals, Armcors all fired with aplomb.

She belatedly mentioned that some of her problem was she was focusing on the target instead of the front sight post. Whoops.

However we did scoot on up close for a little bit while there was a range break. Other than her not liking the way the Sig 229 fit, once she stopped bad habit shooting she was knocking holes in to the target again like no ones business. I do admit that I was having issues that day at 25 yards with the pistol myself so..
Could have been a combination of factors however she did do quite well with the pistol, all things considered when we got her dialed in.

However the big grins of the day go to the AR 15 with the varmint scope. And damn can she shoot. Granted this thing has a good scope on it but she was displaying excellent control, and was grouping her shots nicely together at the 25 yard line off a simple sandbag rest. She even got so cocky as to say she knew where the shots were hitting relative to her point of aim and she walked them on up to the dead center of the targets.

So while we were taking a break from pistol shooting I decided to let her have some fun with the AR.
Popped up a human silhouette at 50 yards, gave her 25 rounds and the sandbag rest and let her go to town.

Few shots later I put up the bino's and gazed down range. There was a small cluster of a large amount of shots. Very nice. However she shot more than that... Hmmm. Looked up to the "head" Region. Yup, there was the second tight group. "Are you shooting him in the head?" I received a smart assed tone of voice that was laden with glee and joy in reply. "Yes, Yes I am!!!" And she proceeded to fire until mag-lock. And she kept that target, number three of the day that she declared a keeper to go home with her. And add to the collection on the fridge.

One more image of the proud Lady Ides with the purple hair: