Arsenal Complete....

Friday was an odd day.  I had made plans, in my head only, to work on a surprise for the OBX ladies.  It did not happen!

I had an up & down night sleeping.  I find that shooting in the evening has my Adrenalin levels elevated just from the stress and frustration that the firearm gave me.  But I finally got up around 8:30 AM.  I had my breakfast and wandered the Internet.

I was thinking about the night before and the shooting with that frustrating gun.  I was also thinking about my new pistol and I did not feel good about using it this coming week.  I want to be able to get some range time in before I bring it out to the class and I doubt I will have time.  So around 12:30 PM I got in  my car and headed to Targetmasters.

I had read several reviews about the friendliness of the staff there.  I was geared to be ignored or treated brusquely.  Zach came over to assist me.  He was very helpful and patient.  I told him what I was looking for and he immediately brought out a couple of guns.  They did not have anything in the way of a revolver that would satisfy me, but they did have a couple of semi-auto pistols that met my criteria.  I ended up purchasing a Ruger SR22.  It came with 2 magazines, but I got an extra.  I also bought a 'brick' of .22 caliber cartridges (there were 525 in a brick).

The nicest thing about buying my pistol at Targetmasters, I was immediately able to go right onto the range and begin running some cartridges through the gun.  It is a sweet little gun.  I still have to work on getting the gun sighted in, but I was able to cluster many of my shots in and around the bullseye.  I am quite pleased with my purchase.  Even though it is a semi-auto versus the revolver, I am sure it will be a nice weapon.  My one concern is that I might get forgetful and remove the magazine but leave a live round still in the chamber.  This gun has a safety feature that when the magazine is removed, even if there is a cartridge in the chamber, the gun will not fire!  So I am much less nervous about having a semi-auto in the house.

I talked to Brian last night.  I am sure he thinks his mother is nuts.  He is not sure how I could just go out and blindly purchase a gun.  But I have been using them on the range and with the class, I knew what I was looking for.  The funny thing is, my 'blind' purchase came up with the same gun that he will be going out this weekend to buy.  So his detailed research came up with the same gun!  Amazing!

I came home and last night I shut the air conditioning off, again, and slept very nicely with some much cooler air coming in from Mother Nature.  Today is the Busy Buddies breakfast and my BFF, Debby, is supposed to be coming over.  I will be working on the OBX surprise!