Went to an indoor range yesterday a.m. with outside temp in N. Florida 38 degrees. It is a range behind a gunshop...no climate control and with a huge blower behind the shooter forcing fumes downrange to the exhaust while forcing air down the back of your neck. I'd never been there before (hadn't shot my pistols since May having just moved here) and was underdressed, freezing. Fired my Kimber Ultra DCPII and placed all shots in or within 1" of a 2" circle at 20 yards..felt good about that. Then shot the Boberg XR9S at 15 yards with good groupings but slightly high and right repetetively...the sights perhaps?
By then I was really cold. Took out the R9 Covert that is my EDC with Gold Dot 124 loaded. My arthritic hands/wrists were really cold by then and I had a little shivering. Fired the first shot at 10 yards at a human silhouette, aimed for the mid-thorax but hit the belly button. The recoil felt like someone hit my hand with a hammer. Two more shots barely touched the target due to massive flinching, so I quit. For the moment am carrying the Boberg in a Superfly front pocket. Need to get back to the range when it warms up and try to handle that flinch!
