Jal chuckled, heading towards the Firing range. "Hope the range is soundproofed. Gauss weapons, if I recall, earned the nickname 'Hypersonic Screamers' for good reason." She paused at the door to the range, shouldering it open and smiling slightly, inviting Keira to enter the range first as she looked at the Row of 'mechs.<br/><br/>"Y'know, I think I have an idea regarding your 'mech's reactor, but it'll take almost a month to get done, so we'll probably have to wait until after the new mission." She slipped inside the firing range after Keira, pleased to see the characteristic 'lumpy' soundproofing on all the walls of the firing range.<br/><br/>Moving to Stall Number Five, she selected a human-shaped paper target and set the track to go to One hundred metres, using the barrier as a bench rest for her rifle, which she left unloaded until the target was in place. "By the way, do we have any of those 'Contact' Class Industrial Lasers? I used to be pretty good at refitting them into weapons."<br/><br/>She waited for a few moments, then, hearing no reply, she pulled on the range-supplied hearing protection, loaded the first magazine into the rifle, and aimed through the 4-power scope. However, she waited until she was certain that Keira her her own hearing protection on before firing, the muzzle flare of the rifle extending out nearly two metres, the blast of sound enough to rattle teeth, and the bottom two-thirds of the target disintegrated from the impact of the rifle's large-calibre bullet. "Um... Well, That's a hit?"