nastybun

Today was the first time I fired a gun that I didn’t have to pump up. This isn’t momentous news by itself, as I still maintain that gun ownership is for insecure idiots… unless you go clay target shooting with them. Which is what we did. A vendor of a highly brilliant proxy/web acceleration/gateway security/application QoS system product organised it for us.. I love corporate outings. Bluecoat are wonderful in every way! I don’t know a whole lot about that section of the marketplace, but from what I do know they offer a compelling product. Let me know if you want to know more.. I can hook you up! Anyhoo, they took a bunch of partners and end users clay target shooting as a corporate event. It was held at the venue of the shooting events from the 2000 Olympics, so we were in good hands. The firearms involved are basically a vertical double barrelled shotgun, with target shot cartridges. I think they’re basically bird shot. There was four different stations with targets coming from two different launchers at each one. We got a warm up at one of them, then one shot at a target from each launcher.. given that some targets move towards you, some away, some at diagonals and some directly sideways, it means that most of the shots were taken with no prior practise at that target trajectory. After the 8 shots were taken ( I hit precisely half of them) we had to do two at once. Two cartridges were loaded and two targets flung.. both were easy shots, moving somewhat diagonally towards us, but having two at once meant you had to hit the first, then swing off to the second and pick it up super quick. I hit both of them! The rest of my team did about as well (or better) so we ended up coming first! Now I have a golden target to display, and $50 to spend on something. All in all, the conclusion I got out of it is that I’m brilliant. I know I conclude that a lot, but hey.. there’s evidence there.