Blind driving!

[fabes]

Exactly as it sounds!

Just had a couple of days in Dorset , lucked in with the weather and did .22 Assault rifle shooting, clay pigeon with a silenced pump action and blind driving

All for 'Jobbys 50th' with 5 other friends.

Blind driving saw the driver dark goggled up in an old Rangey, with three lads in the back shouting directions at him whilst the (female) host sat in the passenger seat (cracked up for most of it) pointed at a 4x4 track between tyres.

Great fun, esp when you substitute 'boobies' for right (and massive boobies for more right ) etc but also interesting.

You get so little sensation of forward motion below 10 mph (we were in Low ratio 1st) without vision, but are able to find straight (or 'Willy') very easily, even after full lock. An interesting experience!

Even tried the track in reverse (was easier we reckoned) and also with no goggles - faster

Max Events near Bournemouth was the place we used, though the 1 mile forestry track to it was a very very bad (surface of the moon) and I am glad I didn't take either of the MBs, seriously!

Blind driving is both fun and wierd

 

[markjay]

Sounds like great fun.

What ".22 Assault Rifle"....? A semi-auto variant of the AR-15? Or just the trusted Ruger?

 

[fabes]

It was a Ruger SR-22
10 round short cased .22 magazine.

It was set to single shot with a red dot sight on fixed targets 30m or so away in one of the small quarries they have. Ear and Eye protection as well as a bench to mount elbows on

The instructor was a 30 year served local who now also does some stunt work (he went to fall off a building on Saturday)

I preferred the clays though as the target was moving.
The 18 inch long suppressor did slow the shot down (and weighed a bit) but helped with recoil and obviously noise.

The barrel does get a tad warm 120 shots in....

 

[Petrol Pete]

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