Range report
Finally got the chance to take the Beretta Neos .22 out to the range this weekend. Mounted a Sig red-dot scope on it that I bought from a friend. I put 450 rounds through it(Remington Viper's, Remington Thunderbolts, CCI Blazer's, CCI Velociter's, CCI Stinger's, and Federal blue box. Was really happy with the cycling and had 0 malfuctions, even when I loaded all 6 mags and rapid-fired the 60 rounds. Was very happy with that. I can't even say the same about my Ruger 22/45. Was also pretty happy with the trigger pull. I was a little disappointed with accuracy, not quite as good as my Ruger. It is definitely acceptable, but I am hoping it gets a little better the more I get it broke in and find the ammo it likes best. In the end I am very happy with this little pistol and it should serve it's intended purpose very well(a good little squirrel/plinking gun).
Jon
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Ruger GP-100
At 50 feet i was able to keep all the shots on a paper plate. The trigger is very heavy but smooth. I was having problems with the .357's. It seemed like the ass end of the round, where the primer is, is too thick, and it woldnt let me close the cylinder, i didnt have this problem with the .38's, but i think itmay have been the cheap ammo, some kind of American Manufacturers ammo. Other than that i couldnt be happier with the gun, it shot about an 8 inch to 1 foot fireball out of the muzzle. And, as always, the glock functioned perfectly! [;)]0 -
I had three things I wanted to accomplish today, shooting related.
one was to drift the sight on my Browning High Power.
Before
The tools. I sought advice from ATE before I used any of these.
A little bit of marring.
Nothing a black Sharpie cant take care of.
The results. Fired from 15 yards with sand bags (13 shots) GTG for me.
The second item on my list was to mount my new American Defense AD Recon H throw lever mount. I received the mount today and rigged it up with a Leupold VXIII 1.5-5x20. The mounting is so easy that even I didn't have any hiccups. The mount is rock solid and looks good in my opinion. The quality is A+. I will report back at a later date with a repeat 0 test. I have no doubt that the Recon series has Larue looking over their shoulder.
After I bore sighted the carbine I shot some 55 FMJ to get it on paper.
The third thing on my list was to shoot 2 hand loads I had loaded yesterday,Sierra 52 grain HPBT MK and Midway DogTown 55 grain FBHP. Both loads show promise, but my 8 plus pound trigger does not make for bench rest tight groups. My RCBS trigger gauge only goes to 8 pounds. I had free float hand guards on my list to buy, but they are taking a back seat to a Geissele trigger.
And a Group of PMC Noise Makers
A cool hammer tool that has been in the family around 80-90 years.
All put back together.0 -
Went to the range today to sight in the Thompson Center Ventura in today for the price these are good rifles the action is as slick as my Tikka I got this rifle for less then 350. 00 couldn't be more pleased
got it from from casey a few months back and put a Vortex scope on it0 -
A friend of mine went on a buying spree and today was a good day for a hike so we headed out to our closest BLM site to hike and shoot.
We brought nine fire-arms:
S&W 686-6 revolver
Ruger MKIII Hunter
Springfield XD **
FN 5.7 **
Colt Commander 1911A1 *
H&K (some .45ACP thing; I never did figure out the model)**
Ruger Standard Model .22 pistol*
Ruger 10-22 Carbine
22-250 rifle that was somebody else's project gun...a total frankenstein.
* My friend's gun
** My friend's NIB gun
My guns all performed like they usually do except that the 10-22 was having some cycling/feeding issues. I've been messing with that one so it might be my fault.
My friend's guns were more interesting because they were mostly new to us. We both really liked the Colt. We both really, really like the FN. It's got a nice little pop to it without too much kick, the trigger's decent and it is, in the end, just a damn fun gun. I'm not sure how practical it is, but then who needs a good reason to buy a fun gun?
And we both pretty much hated the Springfield and the H&K. The FN is a plastic gun, so it's not about the plastic because we both loved that one. But the Springfield just had a cheap feel to it and even though the H&K did not have the cheap feel to it, it wasn't fun to shoot. For starts: WAAAAAY too much pre-travel on the triggers both of the H&K and of the Springfield. Those enormous trigger guards don't sit well with me, either. When not ready to shoot, I like my finger on the guard and that's tough to do when the guard is two inches long.
I'm glad I got to try them out. Now I know that I just don't like those two guns. And I also know that if I find myself a little flush, the amusing thing might be to obtain the FN 5.7.0 -
Browning Medalist circa '65.
AWESOME!!!!!
Goodbye Ruger 22/45!
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Well got the urge bad and had to hit the range. Had several Pistols
I had never even fired.
Targets were a 5" target with 5 per sheet. All shot a 7 yards.
Para WartHog, Kick was not near as bad as I had been told. While its not a target Pistol I now have enough confidance in it to use it as my CCW pistol. No Jams and checking all Brass none from any pistol had any extra dents of dings in them. Also after about 100 rounds thru it my hands are just a little bit sore. But this also could be my hands are still healing from Carple Tunnel Surgery in Dec.
S&W Sigma in a 40 Was actually surprised at how it shot most bullets stayed on the target. Trigger pull is not the greatest, but that could be the other pistols all had great triggers. This also would make a good CCW piece.
Taurus 1911 SS While good the sights are very hard to see, Need to adjust the sights as all were left of the target. Trigger pull was ok but had a lot of slack to take up before you hit the real trigger. Almost like a 2 stage.
Dan Wesson 15 357 used 38P+. Great trigger pull. After shooting the 45's the kick was almost like I was shooting a 22. Sights need a little work had a hard time picking up the rear sight. May need to get a New blade or repaint mine.
Kimber Raptor Wow after shooting a couple of Mags at the target the X ring was gone. Have Houge grips and they really tame the recoil of this pistol. Fantastic trigger pull.0 -
My son and I went to the range yesterday. I gave him a Savage 30-06 from my gun cabinet as a high school graduation present. We lined it up to 150 grain rounds (I had used 180 grain) and he was shooting 1 1/2" groups at 100 yards, not bad considering the wind was gusting and irratic. I have put about 40 rounds through my Tikka 300 wsm and it has broke is fairly well it seems, I was shooting 1 1/4 inch groups and considering the wind I was very happy with that. We were using cheap (is there such a thing) ammo so like I said I was ahppy with the groups.
We aslo shot my Ruger 454. It's a nice piece and I didn't realize my son had never shot it before. He had fun with the 454 loads and suprised me with his accuracy, but then he has had a good teacher.[:D] He then proceded to have a lot of fun shooting a 50 round box of 45lc through it. The range is an open public range, in the country, with lots of plinking targets available. We had it to ourselves most of the time we were there. So he practiced drawing and firing at various targets. And I have to say with a little practice he will most likely out shoot dad. But then dad could use a little more practice myself, I will not make it easy for him.
We then took turn shooting a 22 mag rifle I brought along and we put about 120 rounds through that and called it a day.
It was a good day.0 -
It works-[:D] Pop,pop, BVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVD
Price is steep for an air gun, but the fun factor is worth it.[:D]
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Finally got a chance to shoot my S&W Model 10-6. 4" heavy barrel.
I love it.
Shoots far easier than any of my Sigs. Cut the center dot out at 25 feet
I could knock down the 6" plates at will.
I'm shooting my cast reloads and it just ate them up.
I am more than thrilled.
I will see my father in law and thank him again for his generosity in giving me the gun.
I put a set of mother-of-pearl grips on and she's beautiful as well.
Not smart enough to post pics from my Kindle0 -
First time I've been to the range in a couple years. Pocket pistols both fired all rounds (that had been in the guns for ages)
I function fired some .38 snubbies. All seemed to hit more-or-less at point of aim., but the Rock Island Colt style won't function in double action.
I was extremely pleased with the Rock Island 1911 9mm (first 9mm auto I've ever owned). Very tight groups.
Rock Island 1911 .22 was very disappointing repeated failure to extract. I was limited on time as I didn't get to the range until almost sundown so I didn't spend any time trying to make it work.0 -
Just bought my 6 year old a Cricket rifle for her birthday. I must say the gun is very low quality and I'm not impressed a bit with the thing. I'd rate it about the quality of a raven or jennings. Had several issues with the bolt out on the range. 0 -
i met up this morning with a guy I had worked with 6 years ago, both of us retired now, at one of the local gun ranges. targets were placed from 10 yards, 30, 50 and 100. I brought along a Saiga 308, SKS 7.62x39, Ruger Blackhawk 44 mag with 44 special and 44 mag defense loads, and my Taurus 40S&W. Mark brought a Ruger 9mm, a Rock Island 1911 45acp and a ruger 1022, not wors class. all open sights fun was had, targets were hit occasionally, sometimes even surprisingly!!!, lies were told and a sad assessment was delivered as we were packing up after a sack full of empty brass was retrieved from the grounds-ours!. neither one of us old coots need to be shooting open sights anymore with rifles. and a more restrictive coffee intake was recommended prior to our next ammo blast with our pistols.. this was only my 2nd trip shooting my pistols so I am still a fledgling with them. the Saiga 308 I was shooting pretty damn good in my opinion, but man oh man the muzzle blast from that short barreled SOB was powerful. I LOVE IT! a good all around day to get out with an old friend doing what old farts do. 0 -
Took my S-I-L to the range today. He is 30 and was in the Air Force.
He loves his .40 glock, (Glock lucky for him)
He promply loaded up 2 mags with his best 9mm rounds and fired 1 it would not eject. He cleared the jam and fired again it jambed. He turned to me and said this gun is f---ed up. By then I'd picked up the first jambed round and it looked like the liberty bell. Thats when I knew what he did. He said your not able to load 9mm in a 40 mag. Well you can and he did. Talk about stove piping a round through a target, I think he's lucky he hit it. Gun was not hurt (only his pride)0 -
Took the P-38 and my old Colt 1911A1, and a LLAMA , yes I said LLama, 1911A1 to the range,, The old Colt performed perfect as usual, the P-38 works great, but not the most accurate pistol I have fired. and suprise the LLama performed flawlessly, and was very accurate..Fired a hundred rounds through each,, Only reason I took the Colt was I had to move the rear site as it was shooting about 2 inches to the left the last time I took it to the range, and didnt have the tools with me to move the rear sight,,
After the pistol range, went over to the trap range and Phoooey ran 71 and then missed one, so I quit at 75, as it was getting downright cold out, 39 degrees..BRRRRRRR[:0]
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Those who can make you believe absurdities
can make you commit atrocities.
Do I give my friends advice? NO, . They wouldn't take advice from me. Nobody should take advice from me. I haven't got a clue about anything..0 -
Got to finally get some range time in and scrounged up enough .357SIG to try my Glock G32 out. All I can say to the Glock haters is you're missing out on FUN! I'd never shot that caliber before. I was expecting bad recoil...farthest thing from it. Very accurate(for me). No jams or failures of any kind with it. Definately have enough confidence to carry it. I do need to get a Lone Wolf barrel in .40 though as that ammo is cheaper and easier to get but that .357SIG is a winner of a caliber. Ammo was Hornady Critical Defense. I did experience my first factory centerfire dud. I had 1 round of .380 Hornady that would not light off. I have hundreds of rounds through the LCP with no failures til this one. Definately gets in your head that this could happen at the worst time so it pays to practice a drill where you get a dud. The .44 Special Bisley is lots of fun and thinking I may use it for deer hunting. The .22 is fun as always..and Cabelas actually had a ton of CCI Mini Mags in stock.
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Well this weekend my BOL & I went out to the Wenas shooting area to do some target shooting and I packed along my Taurus 850 for a little range work for it as well. The temp was in the low 30's & snow everywhere. The new ammo I wanted to try out was Buffalo Bore 158 grain .38 +p, they are a lead hollowpoint that supposedly go out at 1000fps/351 ft lbs.
All I can say is OUCH!!! Those things are definately not for the faint of heart or recoil shy/first time shooters or the ladies. I have been carrying 140 grain Hornady standard velocity loads and thought ok maybe I should step up the power scale. I think they had more felt recoil than some .357's. I dunno that I'm going to keep using them as powerful as they may be, I might have trouble with follow up shots if needed. Accuracy out of them is standard snubbie, which is to say they will do the job at 7 yards. I have also used the Speer Gold Dot for short barrel revolver but they had tons of muzzle flash(contrary to Speers' propaganda regarding that). We did also see some elk up on a hill and to my suprise they could have cared less that people were shooting.
There were quiet a few people, including my BOL, trying to hit a metal target that is 600 yards out and very few folks could hit it consistently. Even if they have whatever the new flavor of the month elk killer in .300 Super Ultra Short Mag or 7mm Maximum Rocket Mag which proves my point that FEW shooters should be trying to take an animal much past 300 or 400 yards unless they can consistently hit that 500-600 target more than 1 shot in 20.[:D]0 -
I took two new to me rifles to the range today. The first was a Japanese Arisaka type 99 re-barreled in 30-06. I picked this up at a pawn shop for $125.00. It has a rear Lyman peep sight that is windage and elevation adjustable. It has a very well tuned trigger and the bolt has been modified to cock on the up swing. This thing is a tack driver. At a hundred meters I stacked two on top of each other and the other two opened it up a bit to about 3". I was using Winchester store bought 165 grain SP. This thing kicks like a mule. I'll be adding a recoil pad soon.
The other rifle was my new JDL PTR-91. This is a sweet set up. It has a heavy trigger pull (about 9 lbs.) but other than that it's a shooter. I was shooting Sellar & Ballot 147grm FMJ. Eight of ten were in a nice group of 4 inches at 100 meters. Two were fliers that opened to 6 inches. I can live with this until I get the trigger pull reduced. Not too bad with open sights.[:D]
Stay Alert! Stay Alive. Good luck out there.0 -
well...i've had my first gun for about a month now and have finally gotten to take it to the range and get some time with it.
this is me with my pa-63
this is my first target.....all green dots are my fiance's attempt0 -
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I had a job today that was close to the range. So I put my two 91/03's in the work van, then hit the range after I did the job.
When I got these rifles they would hit high and to the left. I had to aim low off the paper and to the right off the paper. Just to hit the target. So I did some reading up then some tuning up. And here is how it turned out. There is a couple of things I can do more (which i will) to tighten the groups up. But from not hitting the paper, to this I am very happy so far. Oh yea 50yrds with cheap surplus ammo and 20 shots each.0 -
took the encore 7mm-08 out this weekend to site it in for deer season
the one in the bulls eye was the 3ed shot the other 3 above it were
the 1st two and then the 4th shot. not bad for a 100 yards the shot on the left and right were at 150 yards and I could not see the black bulls eye with the 4x scope (the cross hairs covered the thing up)
not bad out of a 15" pistol
I may work on the 150 yard shots some more but for this season Im sticking to 100 yards or less untill I get to shot it more.0 -
My son and I got to take my new Kimber Gold and his new Glock 23 out to the range today.
First off the Kimber is soooo sweet. I wish I had gotten one of this along time ago.
Second, the Glock, this is the first time I have fired a Glock. I am not ready to compare it to the Kimber but I may just have to go get a model 17 or 19.0 -
Well, I went to the shooting range with my cousins. We got there, I opened my case, picked up my 44 magnum and the base pin latch nut fell off. It dropped right in front of me into the dirt. All three of us down on our hands and knees and we never found it. Oh well. My cousin had his S&W 629 in 44 mag as well as a carbine in 44 mag.
Looks like I'll be ordering from Midway tomorrow.0 -
Took a couple I hadnt fired yet and was suprised how good they operate..I took the 9 mm largo 1921 spanish police pistol the Astra, and been so long since I shot the hopped up 9mm , I forgot just how hot is was.. Extremely accurate.. It will also shoot the .38 auto but I dont have any .38 auto ammo.,.
The 1910/22 FN (browning patent) .32 auto was owned by a Nazi Soldier,was excellant in its performance. Not much bang but accurate..
Didnt take Beth long to zero in with the 1911A1, after almost a year of not shooting.. A good couple hours spent..[:D][:D]0 -
on a lighter report if anybody gives a ---- [8D]
Nobody shot themselves or anybody else today .[:D]
was a little crowded a lot of new shooters.[:)]
no jams no duds wasted about 500 rounds (300 22s)[;)]
new AK worked, AR,DE50 AND ,DE44 all good EVEN THE REM 522 [:p][:p]
NOW I GET TO CLEAN THEM UP[^][:(][^]0 -
SKS worked well, shot 200 rounds of my wolf ammo...FUN...we were all safe none of us were hurt...(friend got burnt on barrel,his sks), I would never get my SKS barrel that hot. Bottels and targets didn't stand a chance... 0 -
No matter how hard or how
many times I tried.
I could not get a 6.8 SPC
to chamber in a 223.
After I put the specs on and chambered
the right ammo both RRA's
shot just great.
We shot at 2 liter bottles with both
calibers and the 6.8 delivered a lot
more energy to the water bottles than the 223.
Bunch of fun.0 -
went to the range today and took only three guns along,, the new little Beretta with the long barrel, never a malfunction, the sights leave a lot to be desired, but managed to keep the shots in a 6 inch circle at 20 yds.
The Smith 686, 2 1/2 inch .357, lotta bang, sorta accurate for that kind of gun,, nothing to brag about
The Smith K.22 masterpiece, model 17 shoots as pictured below,, 20 yds one hand, standing, Ifn I wasnt so old and shakey, I probably could hit the target.[:0]0 -
Finally took my DPMS AR out today and put about 200 rounds through it.I sighted it in so it was hitting about an inch low at 25 meters and with out any other adjustments to the sights, I was hitting propane cylinder gongs at 150 yards off hand. I say it performed well. A co worker of mine was there as well and I let him shoot it. He liked it better than his M-4 style AR. Definitely a good purchase. 0 -
Took the little 1908 Colt Pocket .380 to the range. What a Shooter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 25 yds all rounds in a 10 inch circle.. Not precision but a gaurenteed hurt on anyone on the receiving end..[:0][:0] 0 -
Went to the range this morning, and shot a few rounds of trap..Had to go to the SKEET/TRAP range, as the small trap range wasnt open.. I was the only trap shooter there. There was 6 Skeet shooters, and we were setting around talking before we got started, and I guess they didnt know I was a Trap shooter, and they were gripeing about Trap shooters coming in and interupting their Skeet Shooting, So I politely ask,, Hey why dont you guys shoot a round of trap and see what its all about, or are you afraid you cant hit em?? They took the challenge, Guess what, the best any of em did, was 17 of 25. I was pretty well on and got a 25 and a 24. Two packed up and left..and the other 4 insisted on shooting more TRAP, What a Fun Day...I may have converted a couple of Skeeters To Trappers..[:D]
"when you see the enemy, you attack and shoot him down, anything less is just bull shi*
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