hey! just came back from the clay target shooting lesson. haha..it was really cool..got to go to the national shooting centre at choa chu kang and had to pass so many cemeteries and crematoriums on the way there. =p shotgun is really cool..its so unlike rifle. and im such a weakling!! my left arm was already trembling after holding the thing for about 3 rounds. and its not like rifle where you can rest your elbow on your hip, cuz you gotta support the shotgun with just your left hand and arm. he said shotguns are about 3kg only, which makes them lighter than air rifles, but i couldnt support the thing for long though. haha..why's my left arm so bloody weak?! anyway, shotguns recoil! and now my right shoulder/arm junction is totally red and bruised. well, its more on the bruisey side than red. it was totally red during the session. if i had fired anymore, i think the area would start bleeding. heheh. i might as well have no skin at all. the recoil part was quite a shock at first! like, after you fire the thing, whoa! you feel the impact. and my left arm is totally suanned-out now, i couldnt even wash my hair properly! i was spreading the shampoo and then wahhhhhhh so suaaaaan so in the end, i only used my right hand to shampoo. haha..dont worry, im still clean, so its safe to come near me! and after the bath i tried to tie my hair, but i had to lean to the left cuz my left arm was suan and i couldnt really hold it up to my head for long. haha. we did 3 kinds of shooting. Trap, skeet and double trap. in trap, the clay target comes flying vertically up from a distance. in skeet, there are 2 types. the first is where the target flies kinda like in your direction, from the opposite. i mean, of course its not directly at you lah. haha.. yeah so you have to 'track' the thing, which is to follow it with the gun and then shoot it a bit in front of and below the target, kinda like in the south-west direction. and theres another type of skeet, where the target flies from behind you instead of from the opposite direction. i dunno why, but that one's more difficult. to me, at least. haha..maybe its just me. double trap is something like trap but 2 targets come vertically out at same time, side by side and you have shoot one after the other. and the coolest thing is, every time you want the target to fly out, as in, when ure ready to shoot, u have to say 'pull' into the mike! and its all like voice-activated and the system will respond by making the target(s) fly out from their lairs. haha. I think its cool! actually you dont have to say pull, just any one-word command, but thats sorta like the standard =p chris said 'fly' though. haha. there are different directions in which the target can fly. we also tried one where it was flying in the north-west direction instead of vertical. oh and its really loud too! he gave us ear plugs to shove into our ears and that REALLY helps a lot. chris forgot to wear his when the guy was shooting and ha ha ha..well, you know what happened. the ammo was cool! there are like, 300 pellets in each um, thingy. what do you call those? the pellet house??? haha..theyre quite big, like a C-sized battery. the gunfire is cool too! i think everything was cooL! the gunfire, the loud 'boom!', the recoil, the earplugs..and even the bruises. haha..cuz its the first time i did something so..real. i mean, they use these to go crow-hunting. you need a license for that, though =p i forgot which is the one which can kill humans from 300m away! damn. i skipped work attachment today to go for this! im glad i did, cuz it'll probably be something i wont get to do anymore! taking it up as a hobby is REALLY expensive, like $90 a day, for 2 boxes of ammo. i mean, i dont know about you, but i dont have that kind of money to splurge on shooting flying clay targets regularly =p we saw some guys shooting with pistols too, and it was cool, cuz there are different steps when shooting different guns, and for pistol, the target card is huge! haha..cuz its like a one-hand thing. but the bullets are cooL! i mean, they're like the kinds you see in movies where the golden bullet holders or whatever come flying out from the back of the pistol and drop to the ground after they've been fired. haha.. i thought shotgun was really cool cuz you get to see gunfire and experience the recoil! but air rifle training is starting soon..should switch back to the AR mode already. haha.
