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| - Well I finally made it down to caswell's last saturday to use my new membership my father in law got me. I didn't have a reservation but they were still able to accomodate both of us by giving us both our own shooting lane. The Staff seems really personable like they know their customers and their needs.
I ended up renting a HK (Heckler & Koch) USP Compact 9MM, I put 150 rds though it with no malfunctions, great gun unfortunately I don't have $800.00 to spend on a handgun. Nonetheless had a great time, got to shoot my Father in Law's GSG5 .22 MP5 clone too. The range itself is nicer, they actually have keypads where you enter in the desired range for your target. Also the rangemaster was watchful but unintrusive to those that we're handling their guns safely. My only minor complaint was that it being an air conditioned range they had the A/C on and it was a cold day to begin with so it was very cold and found myself wearing my jacket most of the time, which is no big deal. But with rentals you only get 1 magazine, so it's not fun to begin with to force 13 hard little pieces of brass into a magazine every time you run empty, let alone when you're hands are aching from the cold. Rather than complaining I decided to be a man about it and said it could be worse. overall it was still a great range visit.
After shooting I was looking around the store and handled a few handguns, a few sigs, a Springfield XD9, and a Walther P99, I asked about an inexpensive but reliable 9mm. And was pointed to the CZ (Ceska zbrojovka) line of handguns. Apparently it's a Czech company but it's really popular with competition shooters and are known for being some of the most reliable and accurate guns out there and has actually been considered as a standard government issue sidearm, unfortunately due to political reasons (favoritism towards germany) it was not chosen.
after holding and feeling out the CZ-75B I was sold, and being a new member I got great discount too. Can't wait to clean it out and put some rounds through it.
Hoping to go back soon to put some more rounds downrange and maybe pickup some accessories. Also planning on taking CCW here at some point.
Maybe one day I'll review a restaurant again.
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