Just so you snow bound folks know it aint all "sun and fun" down here either… It took me 2 hours and a lot or hard earned SWEAT in my tee shirts and shorts to get all those leaves off the front lawn. Damn 70 degree weather!! Oh wait.. 70 degrees with a nice breeze perfect shootng weather.. Pine headed to the range to try out his new pretty. 

So trying out my Pointman 7 in SS, sporting a new pair of houge wrap-around rubbe grips. The reason for the grips was that the have a bad crack in one, I didn't want to risk complete breakage. I left the two orgininal DW mags at the house… no need to wera them out when I have 6 others 3 non-name and 3 brand new Wilson combat. The range I went to, is the only public range in the state, and with the pretty weather, the place was pretty packed. What this means is that we shoot at the same distance.. and generally thats pretty close ( either 5 yards or 10 yards). 

First shot earned me ther bloody thumb knuckel.. and I really did know not to put my thumb there dernit!! One of the mags would not even take 5 rounds so as far as I am concerned its scrap. The other two worked but not well. The new wilsons.. worked great ( but then they should. 

The .45 APC in my 5" PM7 is rather like shooting a .357 with a 4" standard BA… but the added flying brass.. 2 of which hit me in the head ( I must have done something wrong then). The added "punch" to the knock-plates was VERY evident versus my .38 practice loads. The gun is fun to shoot and I was "working it" like I had shot for along time even though this is the first time I have ever shot a center-fire semi-auto. I love the mags adn the locking barrel and all that jazz. At 15 feet ( 5 yards) shes pretty good, at 30 feet she pretty terrible. When we did move out to the 10 yard mark… I swithced to the trusty ole revolver after just two mags.. I felt I was just wasting ammo. Speaking of which since it was a public range there really isnt an oppurtunity to police up your brass… so there went 50 .45 brass. 

While back there at the 30 yards and runnig the 15-2.. I decided to see how well I could do shooting the 5" knock-downs. What I did was to cock each shot with the left thumb and then fire.. as fast I could, while still making sure I hit the plate. 6 for 6, and to tell the truth just about as fast as the .45 at 15 yards on the 4"  "christmas tree" plates. As for the .45… I was able to swing each of the 4" plates at 15 yards finally. I expect that practice would improve my accurracy and further distances it, but I also expect it wouldnever compete with the 15-2 with even a 6VH.. much less my 8". 

All in all, I have to say the big gun is fun.. but its not the same as shooting my tried and true distance gun. Fun but in a different way I guess. I can see where folks that want lots of bang and flash and only want to shoot from pretty close would like them. And of course they would be a great self defense gun. But the ole revo… is more of a "pleasure" to shoot.. like the difference between a cigerrette and pipe.. I would expect. 

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