Gunshooting!

Last weekend we booked clay shooting at the Singapore Gunshooting Club. It was a totally new experience to us, especially to me, because I had no experience whatsoever with handling a shotgun! Herve and Simoon, who went with us, play computer games and go to arcades sometimes, so I was the only total layman...

We took a taxi from our place, as the shooting club was on the western side of the island, with very poor public transport connection. The taxi driver wasn’t sure where the club was, so he used his GPS. When we got close, the GPS took us away from the road so we found ourselves in the middle of the field! For a moment we weren’t sure the driver wasn’t some serial killer trying to take us in the unknown area and do ‘you know what’… But soon we reached an asphalt road and we reached the club, in the middle of nowhere…

We had the safety introduction first and we moved to the shooting stations. Got the guns, loaded and the shooting started! Man, that baby weighed 3kg, my right arm hurt for several days after that! We had 25 cartridge shots each. Clay target shooting involves shooters attempting to break clay targets flung into the air at high speed from a variety of angles. Herve got most of them, Simon got a lot and I broke about 4 or 5… Well, we booked for another session, this time with baretta pistols, so I will have a chance to get some more practice!!! Bring it on baby!