I forgot about this range session from back in late August of last year.
It was another shake-down check of the Colt Combat Commander. Target#1was set at 15-feet (5-yards). I sectored the target with three pieces of yellow duct tape. The bottom tape was the target for shooting with my right hand only, the top tape was the target for shooting with my left hand only, and the middle tape was the target for shooting using both hands. Pace of shooting was casual ... not panic fast and not bullseye slow ... just a nice blam-blam-blam. The intent was to see if I could induce a malfeed or other problem (sometimes switching shooting hands or changing to a different way of gripping a semi-auto invites malfunctions due to unintended limp wristing, wimp listing, voodoo, bad karma ...) 7-rounds (1 full mag) of ball ammo were fired at each sector.
No anomalies ... it is a safe, solid, good-old-handgun. It passed ... it is still keep-worthy!
Click on the date-links below for prior blog posts about this Colt; some of them cover spring replacement, drop safety, quality magazines, etc.
Target#2 was set at 21-feet (7-yards)
I returned to using my standard two-handed hold on the pistol and tossed 3 x 7-round magazines of ball ammo at this target.
Target#3 was set at 30-feet (10-yards)
This was only the second full magazine of personal defense hollowpoint ammo that I have ever put through this gun. The ammo fed just fine and I was feeling okay about my shooting until I clumsily pushed a round way-down-low and crotch-shot the target (the hole in the target that is just to the right of the Colt's muzzle). That's when I decided to call it a day. I'll use more hollowpoints with this pistol as time moves on ... it is expensive stuff compared to the ball ammo ...
Hat tip and THANKS to my favorite local shooting range.
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