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I have a new in wrapper 3' x 5' HK - No Compromise flag/banner for the best HK Covid story. Tell us about your HK win, loss or best experience during this time. The HKProshop Team will pick the best story (pictures are a plus). No fibbing and we are the final arbiter of the outcome.

Contest will be open for 1 week. Ok, let's hear what you got.

Here's mine, this is great for your cave, garage, workshop, bedroom, etc.

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Covid has provided my wife and I with a lot of quality family time with our children. Our industries have/were both shut down or restricted twice now. Was off of work for a little over one hundred days starting in March, then again just before Thanksgiving until now. I'll be returning to work tomorrow and guarantee the customers/faces will be the same. Will forever cherish the family bicycle rides to a local forest preserve for picnic lunches. The most simple ordinary activities were fun and we looked forward to them.
Surely many of you have school aged children or teenagers who have been learning remotely on zoom. It is hard on them and I am very happy that some are returning to in person learning at school. Hoping that 2021 will be better and people/businesses will begin to thrive again.
 
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I really don't have a great story - just a prime example of a time that I should've kept my big mouth shut.

I've got a VP9 that I love. I'm a pretty good shot with it, and I enjoy shooting it whenever possible. Since I'm a public school administrator, I get a couple weeks off around Christmas/New Year's. Anyway, during this time, my wife were going stir crazy and we decided to visit my parents, who own a few acres...and I took the HK.

I've been wanting my wife to learn to shoot. She's probably shot less than a box of ammo in her 52 years, and handles a handgun in about the same manner she would handle a live snake. But on this trip I convinced her to at least try shooting the VP9. The day before we decided to shoot, I explained how to use the Speed Sights on the pistol. I drew a small diagram on paper to help her understand. I went over the proper way to handle the pistol. I explained about the recoil and the report she should expect. I worked with her on her grip and stance...until I noticed her eyes glazing over.

The next day we went to shoot.

I didn't have any fancy targets, so I took a couple paper plates and drew a quarter-sized circle in the center of the plate with a Sharpie and blackened it. I stepped off 25 feet and showed her how to hold the gun and what she should do. She insisted that I shoot first so she could see exactly what needed to be done. My grouping wasn't bad - all 15 rounds were on the plate so I felt pretty good about myself. Then I swapped mags for her.

I told her to move closer to the target, and stepped off 15 feet, so she would be only 10 feet from the target, but she wanted to shoot from 25 feet. I agreed, but knew what was coming.

She clumsily grabbed the gun and pointed it toward the paper plate and squeezed the trigger. I looked at the plate, but didn't see anything. She said, "I know I hit it." I just laughed a bit, and said that I didn't see a hole in the plate. But she insisted. So we both walked up to the target to look. Right in the center - and I mean dead-on center of the black spot I marked on the plate - was a single hole. Her first shot was a bullseye - and better than any of the 15 rounds I shot. She just looked at me, grinned, handed me the VP9, said, "That wasn't so hard," and walked off.

Now, I can't get her back out to shoot. She just tells me that she knows how to shoot...and I can't really argue with her. Crap.
 
That's a common occurrence, Razzle. Woman never fail to amaze me with their eye-hand coordination. My wife and 80% of the woman I've instructed to shoot, walk away feeling superior to the men around them. They're either are God-awful, or basicly just need instruction on how the weapon functions. If they go in confident, they'll hurt male feelings.
 
That's my experience too. A little deliberate, but generally better marksmen. You go girls 💪 🙂
 
Only interesting thing that happened to me HK related recently is I took my little brother to the range (his first time) and we were shooting my Python and Mark 23...about 5 min until close he started to rapid fire and the gun shot so high it blew out the wiring / mechanism which was high up and probably expensive damage...not sure how often something like that happens. I asked the girl at front counter if she could get someone to check it out and she said yes....after like 20 min we walked back to counter and she had apparently clocked out right after that lmao.

We were laughing about it all night and he kept saying the "tiger got out of the cage" (Superbad quote)
 
Lost my job due to covid but now that I have more free time Ive managed to snag a new SP5k and a unfired HK91 from pawn shops for screaming deals considering the market. Before, when great deals would pop up I would always get beat cause I had to finish work but both guns were over 3 hours away and managed to get there while everyone else was working. Both guns at the $2k price tag plus having a diesel car I barely use any fuel. Big wins for me. Plus all the time I can want for target practice haha

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