Tuesday, February 12, 2013

My First Encounter with the .22 TCM

I was doing some shooting at our local shooting range with some acquaintances a day before the Election Gun Ban, when suddenly I hear these faint, booming sounds thru my protective ear piece, coupled with concussion on my chest from the adjoining bay.

"Oh, good", I thought, someone is shooting a .44 Magnum caliber firearm. So I turn around to look. That's when I found something strange - The shooter was using a 1911 pistol, and as far as I know, the .44 Magnum has not been chambered for a 1911 pistol. Various confusing thoughts crossed my mind, like, could it possibly be some sort of new version of a Wildey I don't know about yet? Or a Coonan?

Then I looked at the target paper, and there were small holes in it, and from that I figured, large fireball, concussive sound, but small caliber, "Ah, the (in)famous .22 TCM" round.