Shooting everything but the target

Last night, competitive shooting (and verification of experience level), 25 meters and one handed, with my sidearm didn't go as well as I'd hoped (and trained). Instead of using the usual civilian 9 Luger I had to use Swedish m/39 which is made for SMG, thus hotter and slams the slide more, causing increased spread, not to mention wear and tear to the barrel.

Well, my usual 10 m practice ends in groups of around 4 cm (and yes, I have pics to prove it), so to extrapolate it to 25 m the groups should be 10 cm. Heck, even increasing that by Murphy's constant of 2 times all rounds should be well inside the 40 cm target. But hot ones were spread all over the paper and some were even off that, so I got only 35 points instead of expected 60-70 out of 100 (10 rounds). Damn.

At least last weekend nighttime shooting went better, as filled the norms and got the exercises done, not everyone managed that. Shot some 150 tracer rounds that night (pitch black, only illumination being provided by shotgun flares and Ikaroses - an illumination rocket with parachute, pretty good stuff).

But it proves that to at least maintain the shooting skills, I have to do it at least once a month, especially sidearms, better be to go shooting at least once every 2 weeks.

A nice pic I made couple of weeks ago of one curious bird, also he and his pals ate all my bread.