Ruminations of a Junior Shooting Geezer
As I read this - from an elsewhere forum - I kinda related to this guy. Anyone else -
age specific - also understand/relate to this guy's reflections and ruminations?
This year I turn 60, making me an officially old geezer.
So where this is heading is..... the young guys at the range seem to be more interested making lots of noise, firing a bunch of rounds, and if they hit the target it's a bonus.
The reloading aspect of this game seems to be to produce lots of rounds that go bang, and if they hit the berm so much the better.
With my large caliber lever actions 45-70 and 405 I like to shoot at 8 inch or 10 steel gongs at 200 yards, the 30-06 lever like wise. Don't hit them every time but I get to analyse each miss and determine what mistake I made.
With the bolt guns and the semiautos, I'm using optical sights so shoot at the 300 yard line, off hand or off the bench again paying attention to each shot fired and analyse each for my errors.
I try to get the these same young guys and some old guys to slow down and hit the target.
I wish I had these other fellas bullet and powder budget.
I admit to using progressives for handgun ammo, got four Dillons for different handgun calibers. I'm lazy and hate changing calibers. I determined the the bullet/powder preferences of each of my handgun calibers, 25 years ago and have not changed. I'm now in the lucky position that I can reload far faster then I can possibly shoot.
All of my rifle calibers are loaded exactly the same way as when I started reloading, one at a time, paying attention to each round, eye balling each bullet prior to loading, checking the powder level in each case, cleaning the primer pocket with a primer pocket uniformer, etc. I know each round is as perfect as I'm capable of producing. Loading rifle ammo on a regressive, to me, is turning over quality control and safety over to luck.
Don't get me wrong, when I load for rifles I'll load 200 rounds at a time, making that a 'lot'. My days of firing 200 rounds of warmish 45-70 ammo are behind me and may never have been. I don't feel under privileged being able to only load 200 rounds in an evening, for my rifles. What's the advantage of firing 3-400 rounds of ammo shooting at a 30 by 30 gong at 100 yards, as fast as you can load the magazine?
Thanks for the space to ponder.
Jim
age specific - also understand/relate to this guy's reflections and ruminations?
This year I turn 60, making me an officially old geezer.
So where this is heading is..... the young guys at the range seem to be more interested making lots of noise, firing a bunch of rounds, and if they hit the target it's a bonus.
The reloading aspect of this game seems to be to produce lots of rounds that go bang, and if they hit the berm so much the better.
With my large caliber lever actions 45-70 and 405 I like to shoot at 8 inch or 10 steel gongs at 200 yards, the 30-06 lever like wise. Don't hit them every time but I get to analyse each miss and determine what mistake I made.
With the bolt guns and the semiautos, I'm using optical sights so shoot at the 300 yard line, off hand or off the bench again paying attention to each shot fired and analyse each for my errors.
I try to get the these same young guys and some old guys to slow down and hit the target.
I wish I had these other fellas bullet and powder budget.
I admit to using progressives for handgun ammo, got four Dillons for different handgun calibers. I'm lazy and hate changing calibers. I determined the the bullet/powder preferences of each of my handgun calibers, 25 years ago and have not changed. I'm now in the lucky position that I can reload far faster then I can possibly shoot.
All of my rifle calibers are loaded exactly the same way as when I started reloading, one at a time, paying attention to each round, eye balling each bullet prior to loading, checking the powder level in each case, cleaning the primer pocket with a primer pocket uniformer, etc. I know each round is as perfect as I'm capable of producing. Loading rifle ammo on a regressive, to me, is turning over quality control and safety over to luck.
Don't get me wrong, when I load for rifles I'll load 200 rounds at a time, making that a 'lot'. My days of firing 200 rounds of warmish 45-70 ammo are behind me and may never have been. I don't feel under privileged being able to only load 200 rounds in an evening, for my rifles. What's the advantage of firing 3-400 rounds of ammo shooting at a 30 by 30 gong at 100 yards, as fast as you can load the magazine?
Thanks for the space to ponder.
Jim
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