John in AR

This one is several years old, and I suspect I've posted it here before; I just came across it when saving the musical targets video above. Smith M&P full size, with 115 fmj ammo. Starting from low ready with safety on, not from the holster. I'm not particularly fast from the holster.

12" is bigger than I really like for practice, but this is as close as I want to be when shooting steel with a pistol. Using a 12" plate at this range gives the same relative target size as an 8" target at 7-8 yards.

John in AR

A first attempt at ‘Amazing Grace’. There’s a pause just five or six notes into it, where I was mentally debating (going from the "A" it’s a “G”, no it’s an “F”, no it’s a “G”), and in the middle there’s some ‘clacking’ noises; that’s where I had to reload because the song has more notes than my gun has bullets.

I still need to work on it, for some reason it's a lot harder than the 'happy birthday' above was.

John in AR

In light of May coming up and all the Star Wars fans who geek out about May 4th ("May the 4th be with you"), this is the "Imperial Storm Troopers March".

This one isn't perfect. I haven't been able to get the timing down; for whatever reason, the note pattern on this one's been a lot harder than the earlier ones. When I focus on the notes, I don't get the timing quite right, and when I focus on the timing, I mess up a note or two. Decided to go with correct notes, at the sacrifice of being off on the musical timing. So not real happy with the timing, or with the made-up ending for that matter - the song really jumps into a whole orchestral wildness at the point I ended it, and there's no way I can do that with a 25-shot .22 and an 8-note xylophone.

Anyway, early "Happy May the Fourth" to all the Star Wars fans, and I apologize for treating your song less than perfectly...

John in AR

For my sister-in-law’s grandson, who loves ‘Baby Shark’.

Only one iteration, as it takes a drum mag for even one, and with the weird angle and two-piece plastic construction of the only drums I have, I’m not going to try (at least yet) to speed reload them. So with a 50-rd drum, one iteration is all I can get.

https://youtu.be/rAykZfFbop0

John in AR

"Majesty", really just the first half. Haven't learned the second half of the verse yet; haven't found a score that will fit in a single C-based octave, but will figure it out gradually by ear if need be.