Unplanned Range Time

I had 50 rounds of my reloaded 9mm to burn up from my last outing. When I reload, I try to do 200 rounds per caliber. I decided to get some range time in with my newest gun, the G-17. Since putting on the adjustable sights my aim has been much better. I grabbed my new OnYour6Designs holster to do some timed draw and shoot as long as no one else was at the range. Excellent! I had the place to myself.

I started with some basic target practice at 10 yards and then the 25 yard hanging plates. With 20 rounds left, I moved the target stand to self defense range of 7 yards. I strapped on my holster, put up a B-27 humanoid silhouette, and broke out my roll of masking tape to cover holes. My shot timer was set for shot strings, a 1 to 9 second random start, and a PAR time of 10 seconds. Most of my shot strings are less than 5 seconds, but since I hadn't done timed shooting in a long time I left it set where it was. I shot seven strings, but somehow didn't record the 7th before clearing the timer data. I started with 2-shot center mass hits only, then moved to "Mozambique Drills" aka "Hearts & Minds" (two to the chest and one to the cranium). See the data below.

String #1  5.04 seconds *

Shot #1 2.17   Shot #2 2.87

String #2  4.24 seconds *

Shot #1 2.01   Shot #2 2.23

String #3  2.81

Shot #1 2.00  Shot #2 0.81

String #4  4.12  +

Shot #1 1.94  Shot #2 1.05   Shot #3 1.13

String #5  4.42  +

Shot #1 1.93  Shot #2 1.11   Shot #3 1.38

String #6  4.88  +

Shot #1 2.50  Shot #2 1.19  Shot #3 1.19

 

* FTF malfunction on second shot that had to be cleared. Good training element and came in under time. I attribute to my reloaded target ammo. It only did it twice.

+ Mozambique Drills. First 2 shots were center mass, 3rd shot to the head. 

 

The target was hit satisfactorily every time. The gun will be cleaned and lubed tomorrow and stowed until carrying in cooler weather or the need arises. I am confident in my abilities to carry this firearm safely and effectively. Next practice session will be after I load some rounds. Carry ammo will be my normal Hornady Critical Defense 115gr JHP rounds.

Realization

While administering to my blog in Blogger a few minutes ago, I realized I have been a dedicated watcher of NEWSMAX for almost 5 years. In the beginning it was on cable at the firehouse and part of my subscription with my Dish Network satellite package. It got yanked from the FD cable and I lost it on Dish when I cut back my subscription. I have been paying $49.99/year for a few years for an online subscription so I can watch it live any time I want, or stream shows I missed. It is back on the firehouse cable, but I usually have it streaming on my laptop in the bunk room office in a little pop out panel on the screen over everything else. I also get to watch it on my phone using the NEWSMAX app. So every time I happen to be somewhere garbage like CNN or MSNBC is on, I will not be part of their captive audience. And now that I have moved our cell service from Verizon to Pure Talk, I have all the data I could ever possibly use so they cannot restrict me from watching over their Wi-Fi. Although I do also have PCMatic's VPN service so I could watch or lookup whatever I want bypassing their restrictions.

A word about Pure Talk; with Verizon, I was paying $163.14 per month for 10GB of shared data, and my phone was well past end of life where my wife's was close to it. I was losing apps due to security issues with the long gone Android 8. Replacement phones were stupid expensive. We are now paying $95.47 per month for 25GB per line and we both got brand new Samsung A26 phones on Android 15 for $99.99 each. The phones each got an additional installed 512GB SD card and do everything we want them to do. The network coverage is so much better since we are no longer locked to Verizon and we can connect to 5G (not at my house, we just use 5G Wi-Fi anyway) when available.

So far so good.

Back to Normal

And just like that as of October 1st..... my blog traffic has dropped back to normal with only 38 views on my previous post since publish date of 10-1-25, and no additional comments on any of my posts.

The nerd in me is curious as to why the sudden but short duration spike in traffic. My normal self doesn't really give a flyin' fuck.

Plans For Cooler Weather

And more layers of clothing to easily conceal a handgun and spare mags. I am planning on carrying my full size Glock G-17 loaded with Hornady Critical Defense 115gr JHP rounds and two spare mags. In anticipation of this, I ordered and received yet another kydex OWB holster and mag carrier in black from OnYour6Designs.com to fit it. An initial test fit showed another well made product, that held my gun and mags securely, and when I have time I will figure out whether or not to cant the holster. All of this easily hides under a loose fitting flannel, fleece pullover, zippered hoodie, or when necessary a suit jacket. For normal times I will stick with the Kommiecticut legal 10 rounders, which I also have a half dozen always loaded up with Federal HST 147 gr JHP for the PCC-9. If things start getting spicier the carbine goes in the truck in a soft sided case that accommodates the mags. The pistol ammo will be changed over to the Federal so the mags can go in either weapon since the PCC-9 sports the Glock mag well.

But if things continue to go sideways I may break out the super deadly 17 rounders I have squirreled away for SHTF. The problem is getting "caught" with magazines over 10 rounds and making my "paper felonies" real ones. 

Blog Stats

More evidence of whatever is going on with the traffic to my blog. 16,800 views last month, with almost 68,000 and this month isn't over. Comment traffic is up too and I appreciate the engagement. At this rate I will hit the milestone of 1,000,000 "All Time" visitors before the end of the year. I know, peanuts compared to some well established blogs, but I'll take it. Even with all the traffic I refuse to monetize and clog my content with ads. IMHO that will be the excuse for Goolag to shut me down.