so on the second day of being in Phuket and my hands itching to do some diskaon diskaon.. I took a tuk tuk to the place.
Me before entering the place.
A quick round of instructions.
I chose the 0.22 and a 9x19 mm as my tools for the day.
First was the Smith & Wesson 10 shot 0.22 single action revolver. By the way its pronounced "Smee en Wessooon" in Thailand.
The first few shots were quite surprising. Having shot a 0.22 rifle before, i expected no, or little, recoil. but I realised that my first shot was way too low. second was on the target, but far far away from the bulls eye.
Then my instructor Mr. Anik gave me a few tips on pistol shooting. asked me to aim high. that improved my score a little. i managed one bullseye out of the 10 shots I fired.
Then came "the dream of every NPB license holder" I WAS HOLDING A CZ 75 SP -01 9x19(Or the Sleazee 75, as they call it there)..... they also had the 45 cal but then, two thing made me decide on a simple 9mm over the 45.
1. cost of ammo was way higher
2. i dint want to score a bulls eye on the next persons target.
What can you do with a 45 that you can't do with a 9mm??
coming back to the 9mm.
5 bullets were loaded by Mr. Anik and he help me change my grip(My left hand thumb was in the way of the blow back path - not a problem in the revolver which I had just shot. As a matter of fact, my left hand thumb was positioned there to help recock the single action revolver).
First shot - bottom left corner
a quick "calibration" then I got 4 shots in the south east quadrant of the target.
After a quick reload. ( they load only 5 bullets at a time) i requested the instruction to let me go crazy.. I told him F see you K the target or the score. let me have some fun. and in just 3.0005557466 seconds i fired the remaining 5 shots. The whole shootign range was looking at me. wondering if the range had auto weapons too.
My scores speak for themselves.
My instructor "Mr. Anik" quite a Showman. Made me pose with the guns. Made me wear my rayban for the photoshoot!!
I liked the huge safety warnings:
Had a chance to do that last December myself, as you said cost of ammo is very high, but as a you can see there is no range fees as such, so the ammo cost probably takes care of everything!
