
Today I still spend a lot of my shooting time shooting a RST-6 (not the one that I first shot that is a long, sad story), and it never fails to make any day a better day. But by the end of the second magazine, I was on target - and hooked. I would like to say my first shot was on target, but it was not. I was (and am not) big for my age, and that RST-6 was a heavy pistol. My father taught me the basics of shooting with a strong emphasis on safe handling and then it was my turn to try to hit the target. I know that we spend a lot of time talking about the defensive use of the pistol, but my true love of shooting started with a Ruger Standard RST-6 and a Maxwell Coffee can as a target with the range being the field behind the house in which I was raised.
