Shooting / Gun Ranch

Last weekend I was shooting with friend from physics, the funny thing is, two of them are half German, but cannot speak any word German. The guy in left is Frank, he owns all the guns from the second world war, the guy in the red shirt is Guil, he works with me in the lab and I share an office with him. He is half Brazilian and half German, he was never in Germany, but has a German passport, totally funny. The girl on the right is Nicole, another member of my lab with her husband to the left.

This is a mauser from 1943. It is a Russian gun and pretty powerful.

The recoil from this rifle is really bad. Normally you have some kind of cushion at the end of the rifle, but this rifle just has a metal plate. The reason is pretty simple, the Russians wore a big winter coat, so they didn't need the cushion and could make the gun more powerful. However, it is hot in Texas and I could only shoot a couple of shots before I thought my chest/shoulder is falling apart.

But as you can see, I could aim pretty good.

Afterwards, we shot pistols...among others two Walthers, one from 1943, one from the 60s.

Of course I shoot only with peaceful ammunition...

This is the Walther...I had to shoot it alone because of my name ;-)

And this is a revolver, a rebuild of the revolvers of the civil war, it was really cool...and I got better and better. I love guns!!! It is so much fun!

Here you can see the cartouche of the Russian rifle on the left and in comparison to that a cartouche of a normal rifle.

The perfect ending of the day was the barbecue afterwards, eating the meat with your hands still smelling like gun powder!
It was a great weekend with some historical experience...hope to read some comments from you!