Peace, quiet, paper target

Today was an excellent day, though it started off odd.  I woke to the sound of a baby crying and for the life of me, couldn't figure out where it was coming from.  Imagine my surprise when I walked into the living room and found little one laying there in the bouncer, crying. 
I must have looked at my wife strangely, because she quickly explained that it was a respite thing, and that the little one had been there since yesterday afternoon.  I guess I was so tired from work that I didn't even notice.   In my defense, I had totally forgotten that we were doing a one night respite.
Cut to this morning, and after getting the kids to school, I walked back to the house and relaxed for a bit.  After lunch, I gathered up my rifle and went to wal-mart to get ammo, then went to the Rustic Range in Slaton to shoot.
First of all, I love shooting.  It relaxes me.  Second of all, I like the rifle.  It's a colt .22 caliber M-16.  The only problem I've got with it, is that the back sight ring is a replica of a 5.56 or .223 M-16, so the Windage and elevation knobs don't really work right.  That's easily fixed.  I just need to buy a back ring sight for a .22 caliber weapon, and it would only cost a Ben Franklin.  Needless to say, I was only off a little bit on each shot, but it was something that was easily corrected.  I shot two types of targets.  One was a Man sized black silhouette target at 50 yards.  I shot 40 shots and hit 38 times.  The second was the smaller black and white ring target.  I used 3 of those targets and shot 20 times at each target at 25 yards.  I hit 20 for 20 each time.  If that had been on the man sized target at 50, it would have been concentrated around the 9 and 10 ring.

So, all in all, it was a good day.
Tomorrow, I go and pick up the Teenager and take her to her driving test.  God have mercy on my soul. (actually, I don't mind helping Kacey, she's a great young lady.)