I went to the range with my wife and buddy Dave today, but it was so darn windy we had trouble keeping the targets up. A couple of my targets actually blew off the stands while I was waiting for a cold range to retrieve them.
I took the Mossberg 464, the AR-15, the new Benjamin Regal pellet gun, the Ruger 10-22, the Ruger Mark 3, the Evil Roy SAA 38 Special, the Henry .22 lever gun, and the SAI .45 cal 1911 clone.
Buddy Dave brought his S&W .357 revolver, a Colt .44 mag revolver, and an AR-15 chambered in 7.62x39.
All the guns shot well but the .45 is a little balky to chamber the first round. It definitely needs some work on the feed ramps. Once the parkerizing was polished down a little bit I could see tool marks on the casting that were not obvious when the gun was new.
But they're there and you can feel them, so they definitely need to come off. A little work with the dremel and this thing should be feeding slick as snot.
I was shooting Silhouettes from 7 yds, and I managed to put about half my shots in the heart or aorta. The other half wound up in the ribs and lungs.
I actually had about the same kind of luck shooting Silhouettes with the .38 cal Evil Roy. In both cases I was shooting Federal American Eagles.
I shot all the long guns at 50 yards, except for the pellet gun which I shot at 7 yards and then 50 yards.
The Mossberg .30-30 shot almost flawlessly today. I had one round that didn't chamber until I jiggled the gun, but otherwise it seem to feed very well with my modified follower. Since I readjusted the mainspring link I have had no FTFs with this gun.
AR-15 however did have an FTF, and on the very first round I chambered. The strike was so light it barely left a mark on the primer.
I don't know why that happened. I tried the same round again and it fired fine. The next 40 rounds fired fine as well, and the primer strikes all looked substantial. Perhaps the gun wasn't fully cocked or something? I'm too new to the AR to understand everything that happens with it.
Both Ruger's ran flawlessly, as did the Henry .22 and the Benjamin.
At 50 yards with the Benjamin, the wind was taking my pellets a good 18 inches sideways! But at 7 yards I could put them all in a one inch bullseye. I sighted it in my backyard at about 20 yards, so I had a pretty good handle on what it would do before I got to the range.
More to come...
I took the Mossberg 464, the AR-15, the new Benjamin Regal pellet gun, the Ruger 10-22, the Ruger Mark 3, the Evil Roy SAA 38 Special, the Henry .22 lever gun, and the SAI .45 cal 1911 clone.
Buddy Dave brought his S&W .357 revolver, a Colt .44 mag revolver, and an AR-15 chambered in 7.62x39.
All the guns shot well but the .45 is a little balky to chamber the first round. It definitely needs some work on the feed ramps. Once the parkerizing was polished down a little bit I could see tool marks on the casting that were not obvious when the gun was new.
But they're there and you can feel them, so they definitely need to come off. A little work with the dremel and this thing should be feeding slick as snot.
I was shooting Silhouettes from 7 yds, and I managed to put about half my shots in the heart or aorta. The other half wound up in the ribs and lungs.
I actually had about the same kind of luck shooting Silhouettes with the .38 cal Evil Roy. In both cases I was shooting Federal American Eagles.
I shot all the long guns at 50 yards, except for the pellet gun which I shot at 7 yards and then 50 yards.
The Mossberg .30-30 shot almost flawlessly today. I had one round that didn't chamber until I jiggled the gun, but otherwise it seem to feed very well with my modified follower. Since I readjusted the mainspring link I have had no FTFs with this gun.
AR-15 however did have an FTF, and on the very first round I chambered. The strike was so light it barely left a mark on the primer.
I don't know why that happened. I tried the same round again and it fired fine. The next 40 rounds fired fine as well, and the primer strikes all looked substantial. Perhaps the gun wasn't fully cocked or something? I'm too new to the AR to understand everything that happens with it.
Both Ruger's ran flawlessly, as did the Henry .22 and the Benjamin.
At 50 yards with the Benjamin, the wind was taking my pellets a good 18 inches sideways! But at 7 yards I could put them all in a one inch bullseye. I sighted it in my backyard at about 20 yards, so I had a pretty good handle on what it would do before I got to the range.
More to come...
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