It was a big day today. Rob had been threatening to take us shooting ever since we got here and today was the day. The training went OK as usual. It's not too bad this week - the stuff we're doing is fairly easy. After my training is over, I have to go out on a site-visit shadowing another consultant. I found out today that I'll be going to a client in Cambridge after Easter, which will b e quite good as I'll hopefully be able to call in on my sister Kathryn.
At lunch we decided to go out for a change, and the consensus was that we should have sushi. Now, I have never had sushi before so was not too keen, but thought I'd give it a go. I took Kip's recommendation and ordered some kind of Tuna roll. It eally didn't do anything for me. It was so fiddly and the leaf that it was wrapped in was quite tough, so I ended up gettin rice all over the table! And it was very salty....just not my thing at all. I managed 3 rolls, but that was all. Most disappointing.
As for the shooting, we headed off with Rob and Curtis, his second-in-command, up into the mountains with a boot full of weapons! We ended up taking a narrow, winding, icy road through a canyon up to a clearing about half way up the mountain. Rob and Curtis set up some boxes with targets on and a row of tin cans about 80 meters away. They had an array of rifles...we started with a smaller one (a .22?) which was quite easy to handle (although i dont think any of us hit a target with it to start with!). We worked out way up to shooting something quite a bit bigger, which had a mini bi-pod at the end - you had to lay down sniper style. The noise this one made was phenomenal - such a loud boom...the ground shook!
We must have been shooting for about 2 hours, until the light got too bad to see. It was actually a really good time. I think we had all been a bit apprehensive, as Rob can be a bit overpowering sometimes, but he was fine and Curtis is a really nice guy. At the end, we set up 3 targets, one each, and took some shots, so we could take our targets home to show our success (or not!). I think I did just about the best, with 5 shots on target, and a couple fairly close to the centre.
It was a bit hairy getting out of the clearing and back down the canyon, with light fading and temperatures dropping. But we made it out and went for celebratory drinks afterwards. Rob had been taking photos of the shooting, and I'll hopefully get some copies and post them here when I can.
Overall, a pretty good day.
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