I’ve booked shooting in the last day in Krakow. Cracow Shooting Academy gives excellent variety of weapons. It offers packages. But they either have absence of guns I want to shoot from their catalogue or weapons which don’t interest me. I would like to hold Smith & Wesson Model 29 but it has later Model 686. My wish to feel Dirty Harry myself was shattered as stock market in 1929. However, there is opportunity for own variant. I chose Luger P08, Colt M1911, Glock 17, Uzi, Heckler & Koch MP5, Kriss Vector, Thompson M1 and M16A1 by planning to use them chronologically for experience power and evolution though I forgot on Die Hard’s submachine gun but it didn’t interrupt asking experience.
I say in forward that no weapon caused me a discomfort in whining of hand and butt of all submachine guns and assault rifles connected with my shoulder as plug entered into socket.
I began with Luger which associative with that this gun Nazi SS officers held. It started to use in 1900 by Swiss Army whereas German Army through order of Wilhelm II accepted pistol in 1908. Luger used in multiple conflicts in the first half of the XXth century and few dozens years after that as IRA did.
I believed, this little pistol can hold only in one hand but I convinced that weapon is compact for two hands. However, I wouldn’t take it on fishing and anywhere else. Luger P08 has a big recoil and bullet can shoot anywhere. When I looked on my shooting in the end, it had a wide spreading.
Colt M1911 is a second gun which I willn’t take on meeting with tax inspector. A pistol does same long scattering and it’s heavy in holding. I can’t understand that this American pistol still in service of US Army Special Forces, Navy and Marine Corps.
Keeping protection glasses saved me from cartridge of Glock 17. Gaston Glock invented a perfect pistol. Easy hold. All bullets move in straight direction. When I looked on my paper target, which I took all of them from shooting range for hanging on the wall instead Poppy Flowers by Vincent Van Gogh and Waterloo Bridge, London by Claude Monet, it doesn’t shoot outside – all holes were close to each other.
A legendary submachine gun of Israel Army Uzi. I’m ready to sleep with this gun and hug it as a teddy bear. We are getting one when touch and wrap each other. It becomes unison and of such moments when you feel unity in universe. We come in mad passion and understanding that nothing can’t stop us in this world. Bullets don’t spread and situate nearby of each other.
Modern submachine gun Kriss Vector is another ideal of weaponry which has a compact weight for holding and precise in shooting.
Thompson M1 which was assault rifle of American military in World War II. It’s unpredictability in bullet reaching can get without looking on a paper target in the end. No balance and you can’t control – it’s casino roulette. A weapon was progressive for it’s time.
M16A1 became assault rifle of US army in the Second Indochina War which more known as Vietnam War. A gun makes strong recoil. However, it hasn’t spreading of bullets. Just hold tight.
Came from West Germany MP5 took popularity in conflicts around the world and uses by variable armies, private organizations and many bad guys since it’s appearance in 1966. No doubt that gun stays legit today. I needed to adapt to weapon itself and it was after a first shot. It’s only slightly spread in shooting.
“I was excited!” was that I said to a manager in asked his question on impression.