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1. Andrew Sarcus | July 29, 2010 at 10:29 am | Permalink

   On the bright side, I think all that practice was really helping his reload speed.

2. Whitebread | July 29, 2010 at 11:10 am | Permalink

   Why would you put that on the internet? Poor guy is getting absolutely demolished in the comments. Expect the video to go offline shortly.

   Watch his front sight closely. He’s not.

   I had high hopes for his other video, in which he shoots a Steyer USR. Alas, it was also terrible.

3. Billy Sparks | July 29, 2010 at 1:33 pm | Permalink

   Okay I have never shot bowling pins are they that hard to shoot?

4. pdb | July 29, 2010 at 2:37 pm | Permalink

   Okay I have never shot bowling pins are they that hard to shoot?

   Yes and no! The fat part that you want to hit is about a 5″ circle, and you’re typically shooting from about 10 yards. It is a difficult shot if you’re not concentrating on your front sight, but most people with an issue service auto and issue ammo can do it.

   The real challenging part is getting the pin off the table, since it takes a real solid hit to knock them off, otherwise they’ll fall over, spin in place, etc.

   But you gotta hit ‘em. Scaring them doesn’t count.

5. Don Gwinn | July 29, 2010 at 2:38 pm | Permalink

   Nothing is ever as easy as it looks when you’re sitting at home watching someone else struggling under pressure. That said . . . no, no they’re not. He just got into a hurry and wasn’t seeing the shots, I guess.

   I doubt the MK23 was the problem, though if he’d put a suppressor on the end of it and worn more tactical gear, it might have felt more at home. Maybe if there were some way he could arrange to emerge silently from some sort of body of water to begin the stage . . .

6. Ambulance_Driver | July 30, 2010 at 2:56 am | Permalink

   Judging from his speed and his utter lack of success, I’m guessing the sight picture he was seeing was… none at all.

7. Caleb | July 30, 2010 at 8:47 am | Permalink

   Pins are a tricky devil. The temptation is to try and slam through the rack as fast as possible, but if you do that, you end up like that guy. Speed is great and everything, but that run took what, 7 or 8 seconds?

8. aczarnowski | July 30, 2010 at 11:56 am | Permalink

   > Maybe if there were some way he
   > could arrange to emerge silently
   > from some sort of body of water
   > to begin the stage . . .

   Thanks for that. My day is happier.

9. Tam | July 31, 2010 at 1:07 pm | Permalink

   If you’re not hitting the pin, going cyclic is not the answer.

   Watching a good shooter, on the other hand, smoke a table with a 629 using heavy loads is a joy to behold. Those heavy, fast .429″ bullets make the pins fly off the table like they’d been yanked with a string.

   (Unless you put a rare earth magnet in one, which is funny.)

10. TJP | August 1, 2010 at 8:25 pm | Permalink

    Removing the pin from the table is the next step after mastering the art of actually hitting the pin.

    I feel sorry for this guy since he’s taking the full, supernatural fury of the Internet, but I wouldn’t want him shooting at my club. Why? You know all those range rules that pop up like mushrooms in a shady part of your lawn? You know: no drawing from a holster, only one shot every five seconds, don’t use this type of target….yeah, it’s because of guys like this.

    If it can’t be hit at one shot per-second, there’s no reason that things would improve at three shots a second. However, there will be collateral damage to the club’s equipment.

    Sheesh.

11. Speakertweaker | August 2, 2010 at 1:12 pm | Permalink

    Wait a minute. Am I to understand that “If at first you don’t succeed, fling more bullets at it as fast as possible” doesn’t work?

    All this time I thought the Bullet Hose was the answer to all those nay-sayers that keep telling me to practice and concentrate.

    tweaker

12. Less | August 4, 2010 at 10:49 am | Permalink

    Let’s watch someone doing it right…

13. 3rdman | August 12, 2010 at 10:05 am | Permalink

    Damn that guy sucked. If I was him I would keep my back to the camera also.

    Rule #1

    Do not shoot faster than you can hit the target!

14. Cowboy Blob | September 6, 2010 at 11:23 pm | Permalink

    I think by the pile of loaded mags on the stool, this guy might have been more intent on practicing mag dumps than clearing the pins in a fast, efficient manner. Since he’s the only one shooting, this isn’t a pin match, just the target format for the range he’s using, so maybe he’s just showing off the Legendary H&K Reliability for the camera. If he was shooting metric cardboard targets, he might have plugged the “A” zones with every shot.

    As someone who’s had his own shooting videos mocked for not showing Rob-Leathamesque greatness, I can give the benefit of the doubt that the shooter just wanted to have fun busting a lot of caps with his new toy.

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