SHOOTING IN PHUKET!!!
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:08 pm
After a long time me and my wife decided to take a holiday and travel to Malaysia and Thailand. Few days before we left, i happened to do a google search for "Shooting Range Phuket" I was surprised to find that there were three shooting ranges within driving distance of the hotel we were staying!!!
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:
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!
