It's been in the hundreds and high nineties for the past month. We went anyhow, in the heat of the afternoon; and we basically had the private member's range to ourselves.
We shot the Savage chop-feed .22 semiauto rifle, the Ruger .22 caliber pistol, the .357 SAA clone, and the .357 Henry lever action rifle.
I was mostly working with the Henry today so I only kept targets for that. I've been having some trouble with the feed on the Henry rifle but I straightened out the ejector a bit and it seems to be running better. I may order a new ejector for this rifle. I think I inadvertently tweaked this one when I jammed rifle.
But it ran well enough for me to go through all my old half-boxes of .38 specials & .357 Magnum. I'd bought a lot of different stuff to try, I had a few rounds of stuff that I don't like and I was trying to basically use it up, plus use up a bunch of random targets, and test the rifle at the same time.
Range conditions were very dry with light Gusty wind from the left, and ~85°F in the shade. We were blessed with less than blazing weather! All Targets were shot at 50 yards, slow fire. I did all scope adjustments before I shot these targets.
First Target was the new 158gr Hornaday .357 ballistic polymer tipped Lever Revolution vunderthunkens.
I bought a box of 25 and these little unobtanium delites cost me a buck a bullet with tax!
After some practice and scope adjustments, I put these 5 in a 2.1 inch circle.
Next Target was the 158 gr Federal American Eagle .38 special. Plain lead, round target nose. 3" pattern of 5 shots.
Next was the 128 grain HPR
Flat nose Full Metal Jacket defense round. Expensive.
3" pattern of 5 shots
Next the hated 110gr Winchester Super-X .357 Magnum, wad-cutters. Whitebox cheapos. 3" pattern of 3 shots plus one missing
I only had three Blazers left and I shot them as well. These were 128 flat nose, Full Metal Jacket. I Flinched on the first one and then put two closer to the Bull.
We shot the Savage chop-feed .22 semiauto rifle, the Ruger .22 caliber pistol, the .357 SAA clone, and the .357 Henry lever action rifle.
I was mostly working with the Henry today so I only kept targets for that. I've been having some trouble with the feed on the Henry rifle but I straightened out the ejector a bit and it seems to be running better. I may order a new ejector for this rifle. I think I inadvertently tweaked this one when I jammed rifle.
But it ran well enough for me to go through all my old half-boxes of .38 specials & .357 Magnum. I'd bought a lot of different stuff to try, I had a few rounds of stuff that I don't like and I was trying to basically use it up, plus use up a bunch of random targets, and test the rifle at the same time.
Range conditions were very dry with light Gusty wind from the left, and ~85°F in the shade. We were blessed with less than blazing weather! All Targets were shot at 50 yards, slow fire. I did all scope adjustments before I shot these targets.
First Target was the new 158gr Hornaday .357 ballistic polymer tipped Lever Revolution vunderthunkens.
I bought a box of 25 and these little unobtanium delites cost me a buck a bullet with tax!
After some practice and scope adjustments, I put these 5 in a 2.1 inch circle.
Next Target was the 158 gr Federal American Eagle .38 special. Plain lead, round target nose. 3" pattern of 5 shots.
Next was the 128 grain HPR
Flat nose Full Metal Jacket defense round. Expensive.
3" pattern of 5 shots
Next the hated 110gr Winchester Super-X .357 Magnum, wad-cutters. Whitebox cheapos. 3" pattern of 3 shots plus one missing
I only had three Blazers left and I shot them as well. These were 128 flat nose, Full Metal Jacket. I Flinched on the first one and then put two closer to the Bull.
