I had a free afternoon yesterday, so I took my boys shooting up in the canyon. We took some pistols and some long guns and had fun plinking for a couple hours.

I have a steel plate (14"x14") that we use a lot, and since this was just for fun and not precision shooting/sighting-in we put it out around 100 yards for the rifle target. I also have a whole bunch of bowling pins we set up close for pistols.

I have an old Czech military pistol that we were shooting, and it's one I used to shoot a lot back in college and at comically long ranges for a handgun. So just for fun I loaded a magazine and shot at the steel plate and ended up hitting it a couple times. Not bad... So I loaded another magazine and hit it 6 out of 8 rounds, then another magazine and I went 8 out of 8. At this point I realized I had a rangefinder in my truck. The plate was at 128 yards, and I was hitting it with an archaic, less-than-ergonomic pistol using primitive iron sights.

The boys were impressed, and tried the same but could only hit it sporadically. And they much preferred shooting AR's or my other handguns anyway. Thank you for reading my self-indulgent post....