{"id":820,"date":"2012-02-07T13:02:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T19:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=820"},"modified":"2012-02-07T13:02:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T19:02:16","slug":"range-trips-as-a-form-of-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"Range Trips as a Form of Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Downey over a Guns.com has a good post on “recoil therapy<\/a>.”\u00a0 He’s obviously more of a handgun guy, and I’m more of a rifle guy when I need some zen time, but to each their own.\u00a0 I have used pistols for recoil therapy sessions, but that’s largely because the rifle lanes of the closest outdoor range are pretty popular and tend to fill up quickly.<\/p>\n

One thing he didn’t talk about in selection for the proper medication is what action your delivery system uses.\u00a0 While I’ll be right there with you guys grabbing my semi-auto rifles when the zombies come, they’re honestly not my first choice for this kind of shooting.\u00a0 It’s like the difference between driving a manual transmission and an automatic.\u00a0 Sure the automatic transmission is the more convenient and probably more practical way to go, but it also is that much more of a separation between you and the machine.<\/p>\n

There’s something about cycling my lever actions that makes me happy inside.\u00a0 It might be the images of the Wild West that they conjure up.\u00a0 Also, It can offer faster fire rates than a bolt, but I’m still part of every step in the process.<\/p>\n

Then there’s my bolt actions.\u00a0 Every step is deliberate.\u00a0 Pull the bolt back, push forward to load the round, place finger on trigger, aim, squeeze, assess, repeat.\u00a0 I can choose .22 for when I want to really concentrate on my breathing, or I can ramp it up to my Ishipore Enfield when I need some .308 to pound the stress away.<\/p>\n

I find myself doing similar on the pistol range.\u00a0 I have some great examples of modern semi-automatic pistols, but I seem to keep going to my .22 SAA clone for meditative sessions.\u00a0 The action forces me to slow down, take my time, and be in the moment.<\/p>\n

Oh, and for these exercises, I prefer tube, cylinder, or non-detachable magazines over detachable magazines.\u00a0 Don’t know why, but loading a detachable magazine always seems like a chore, while loading directly into the firearm is part of the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim Downey over a Guns.com has a good post on “recoil therapy.”\u00a0 He’s obviously more of a handgun guy, and I’m more of a rifle guy when I need some zen time, but to each their own.\u00a0 I have used pistols for recoil therapy sessions, but that’s largely because the rifle lanes of the closest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}