The range is up in they canyons. It had also been years since I've driven up this one, and I don't think the boy ever had been that way. On the way up, there's a dam and reservoir. Looks like it's running a little low!!!
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Showing posts with label Ray Guns. Show all posts
Saturday, December 25, 2021
Range Day
A month ago, a friend of mine asked if my son and I would like to go to the gun range with a bunch of the guys. It's been years since I've gone shooting, and my younger has never fired a gun, so I said yes.
It was on a Monday, and I've got more than a month of time off per year now, and with the stupid restrictions it's not really a great time to be using them. Thus, I have a good amount of days I'm able to take off, and in my current position it's easier to get days. Just recently they've changed procedures to where you can carry over up to a week of vacation days. I had carried over most of a week last year, and was planning on doing so again this year, so one day less doesn't bother me at all!!!
The range is up in they canyons. It had also been years since I've driven up this one, and I don't think the boy ever had been that way. On the way up, there's a dam and reservoir. Looks like it's running a little low!!!
The range is a really nice place!!! It's actually the most structured firing range I've ever been to, and the range masters take things serious, as they should.
One of the guys had a couple of AR-15's, as did another guy.
Another guy had a .308 and a Mossberg 12 gauge. At the range, shot shells aren't allowed, so it was packing slugs.
This was at the first area we went to at the range, all long guns. One of the guys had a .22 rifle, and the ladies who came with us liked that one the best!!!
They rent the target stands there. We didn't get the deposit on this one back!!!
After a while there, we headed over to another area for pistols. I don't remember what all pistols were there, but I know one was a 9mm.
And, another stand we aren't getting the deposit back on!!! I think I'll make some of my own next time.
Since it wasn't too far after Halloween, there was a pumpkin down range. It was pretty Swiss cheesed!!!
It was fairly fresh, still had firmness to the meat of it, but with all those holes, it was pretty jiggly!!!
Being as the targets are set up a ways down, it isn't always easy to tell where you're hitting, but I know that hole was my shot!!!
The range is up in they canyons. It had also been years since I've driven up this one, and I don't think the boy ever had been that way. On the way up, there's a dam and reservoir. Looks like it's running a little low!!!
Sunday, October 12, 2008
I Shall Call it Ronald
Here's the story I teased a couple of posts ago.
Something new they're doing at my work, on the second floor of the bins, in the blue bins only. They say its experimental at this point, but with a few minor adjustments I foresee it happening for the whole department. They've given us ray guns!!! They're pretty cool. Instead of doing a "batch" of several documents containing 5 to 8 lines to fill for every filler every five minutes, they've switched to doing on big slew of lines every five minutes, and letting the fillers take what they think they can fill.
Each document has a little bar code on the bottom, and you scan it with your ray gun before filling it. This works out good, because if you take a document that you know is going to take more time, you can take less than you normally would. If you take one that turns out to have a difficult fill, you don't need to stress about another batch coming out in a couple minutes, and let the rest of the crew pick up the slack. They say our productivity in that area has increased. I don't know how they can say that, because we always pretty much fill all the orders that come in every day. How can productivity be up if we don't have more orders??? That part I don't understand.
The guns are pretty cool, though. They are wireless, lightweight and nicely designed. They use a small rechargeable battery pack that goes in like a magazine. Lock and load!!! The beam it shoots is a horizontal red beam, and after it registers, it not only beeps, but it shoots a green dot beneath the red beam, and the back bottom and top glow green. If it does a read that doesn't transmit, it makes an electronic donkey "hee haw" sound effect. The supervisors assure us that they store the information and transmit it once they've got reception, but we're all a little iffy about whether that actually works. One of the girls was saying they should issue us shoulder bar codes, and if you can zap a fellow filler on the move you get extra points. I like that idea!!! In the future, they plan on implementing a system where the totes we send down the line will have bar codes on them, and after filling an order, you scan the large bar code on the document, then the tote and send it on it's way. It will know where to go. Amazing.
Something new they're doing at my work, on the second floor of the bins, in the blue bins only. They say its experimental at this point, but with a few minor adjustments I foresee it happening for the whole department. They've given us ray guns!!! They're pretty cool. Instead of doing a "batch" of several documents containing 5 to 8 lines to fill for every filler every five minutes, they've switched to doing on big slew of lines every five minutes, and letting the fillers take what they think they can fill.
Each document has a little bar code on the bottom, and you scan it with your ray gun before filling it. This works out good, because if you take a document that you know is going to take more time, you can take less than you normally would. If you take one that turns out to have a difficult fill, you don't need to stress about another batch coming out in a couple minutes, and let the rest of the crew pick up the slack. They say our productivity in that area has increased. I don't know how they can say that, because we always pretty much fill all the orders that come in every day. How can productivity be up if we don't have more orders??? That part I don't understand.
The guns are pretty cool, though. They are wireless, lightweight and nicely designed. They use a small rechargeable battery pack that goes in like a magazine. Lock and load!!! The beam it shoots is a horizontal red beam, and after it registers, it not only beeps, but it shoots a green dot beneath the red beam, and the back bottom and top glow green. If it does a read that doesn't transmit, it makes an electronic donkey "hee haw" sound effect. The supervisors assure us that they store the information and transmit it once they've got reception, but we're all a little iffy about whether that actually works. One of the girls was saying they should issue us shoulder bar codes, and if you can zap a fellow filler on the move you get extra points. I like that idea!!! In the future, they plan on implementing a system where the totes we send down the line will have bar codes on them, and after filling an order, you scan the large bar code on the document, then the tote and send it on it's way. It will know where to go. Amazing.
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