The batteries in my quick access gun safe have died and wherever I put the primary backup key five years ago, well, it just ain’t there, or here, or anywhere else I’ve looked.

After two Timed Fire shots in the centerfire portion of yesterday’s 1800 “postal”, the slide of my 1911 failed to travel forward. I looked quickly to see if it was something I should clear and continue but when I saw the shell of round #2 still in the gun but not attached to the slide, I knew I had some sort of extraction problem. “Slap, rack, bang” would not succeed.

In the centerfire portion of today’s L Match, I fired six 99s in a row. Annoyed, I announced, “the next one will be a 100.”

Make yourself into a target?

The handgun is the air soft 1911 I’ve mentioned before. It’s Sayonara for pigeons and Grackles, but only if I aim very carefully.

… and should be.

We plan to have three sources of income when I retire: the IRA we’ve been building for several decades, an old style retirement fund from an employer many years ago, and Social Security.

(2009 Desert Midwinter Conventional Championship)

My CO2 powered air soft 1911 will deliver a fatal hit to birds, but only if it’s a head shot. That’s about the equivalent of hitting the X ring in Bullseye; if I do my part, it can be done.