It was my younger brother, Josemaria, who first discovered the promo last year via GROUPON. This year, I stumbled upon the promo when I visited their home page while looking around the net for something fun to do. It was unplanned as my friend and I went to P.B. Dionisio office yesterday, March 8, only to buy a voucher for the use of their shooting range. gun rental and basic instructions. But when we got there, we found out that their shooting range had an open schedule and we could go there that same day. And so we did, after buying two (2) vouchers good for 2. CLick PROMO.
Foregoing lunch, we went straight to the shooting range and used one of the two vouchers we bought from their office. Since we were the only ones there, the staff processed our voucher right away and we were inside one of their ranges in a matter of minutes. Our gun instructor brought our rented guns, caliber .45 for my friend and a 9mm for me, with 50 rounds each. I was so giddy with excitement (or maybe due to hunger, I don't know hehe) that I was trembling like a leaf, a giant leaf that is hahaha! He started giving out instructions on how to handle a pistol. As he was doing so, I suddenly had a flashback of my Dad, teaching me the same thing back when I was younger.
I was a bit of a tomboy back then that while the women of the clan were preparing food for our weekly weekend picnics, I was with the men, doing target practice. My Dad never discouraged me but he made sure I followed their instructions in how to handle pistols safely. I know I haven't mentioned him in a while but I recently realized that everything I have been doing lately were all influenced by him. His 1st death anniversary is in two (2) weeks but it seems like it was just last week when he helped shape me into who I am now. Being in the firing range yesterday, hearing the same words (almost the same anyway) of constant reminder on how to properly grip the pistol and the praises for hitting the mark, I felt his presence more in just one hour compared to the past couple of months. I terribly miss him, but doing stuff that was influenced by him helps in easing the ache.
Click me, in action for the video
Going back to my very recent shooting experience, the above video link and photo are proofs that I actually did it. In the video, you can hear the instructor (though very faint) say "NICE" and "HIT". My friend even blurted out in our native tongue: "she's even better than me!" The video also shows that I still haven't picked up my pacing, taking me 1.37 minutes to finish ten rounds. The instructor thought I was a newbie (though I did say while we were checking in that I was sort of a beginner since the last time I held and/or fired a gun was more than a decade ago) thus he was very impressed with the groupings that I made. He even pointed out as he handed me my board, that only 3 out of the 50 rounds landed outside the alpha zone and that most rounds made nice tight groupings inside the alpha zone. He even joked that most of my rounds missed the board and went through the big holes that I've made by hitting the same area a couple of times or so. The instructor also mentioned that if I were in a competition, I would have advanced to the next round. I was one proud gunslinger earlier, even teasing my friend as we compared boards.
We enjoyed so much that we plan to use the 2nd voucher next week. I am afraid that I have been bitten by another kind of shooting bug. 1st shooting bug has my dslr as choice of weapon. The 2nd one has the pistol as my choice of weapon. Anyone in need of a personal bodyguard? hahahaha
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