It has been about three weeks since I had been to the range last. It is supposed to rain tomorrow so I thought I would pop off a few today, while it was nice.
I started out with a SMLE Mk. III* that I brought home from my brother's house. The bore was pretty dark so I thought I would put a few rounds down it to loosen up what ever was in the bore. I only shot 10 rounds at a 50 yard target.
I wish I had stuck a target at the 100 yard line after those 10, but I accomplished what I set out to do. When I got home the very first thing I did was scrub the bore down with some Hoppes #9 and it did lighten up a little bit.
After the .303 I went over to the pistol range and put another 100 rounds through the Sig 1911. That makes a total of 500 rounds and I do think it is broken in now. The trigger lightened up a bunch since the first round and I had a couple of flyers when the I pulled the trigger when wasn't quite ready. I shot 50 rounds at 7 yards then moved a couple of steps back and shot the other 50.
I took my Ruger GP100 Match Champion with me since I have only put 18 rounds through it since I bought the thing. I did not get much more than that today when I had an abrupt halt to my shooting with it.
I had three partial boxes of .357 ammo that I had loaded several years ago that I wanted to "get rid of" so I shot about 20 rounds of home cast 150 grain Keith Type bullets, and about another 10 rounds of 158 grain Round Nose Flat Point Berry's bullets, and 10 rounds of 125 grain Berry's HP bullets. I was shooting at 25 yards with these bullets. I emptied two of those partial boxes. and then I had problems!! I did not take pictures of any shots with the Ruger.
When I got rid of all those bullets, I thought I would get serious so I loaded up 6 rounds of 125 grain XTP bullets with H110 powder and put up a new target so I could see how the XTPs shot. I used the same target as the one above.
I went up to the seven yard line and fired. I heard that dreaded little "POOF" and that ended my range session. The bullet went about 3/4 inch into the barrel, I had a short pistol cleaning rod with me but could not get the bullet out of the barrel using it. I loaded everything in the car and came home. I stopped at Wally World and bought a 5/16 wooden dowel to hammer the bullet out.
Here a couple of pictures of the gun, taken right after it happened:
Evidently I must have gotten some thing in the case that contaminated the powder. I loaded these long long before I started wet tumbling, so I can't blame it on water in the case! Whatever it was made the powder into a "pellet", here are pictures of the bullet and the powder pellet. The pellet fell out of the cylinder as I was hammering the bullet from the barrel. You can see the end of the bullet where the cleaning rod did a number on it.
Even with this happening, I will still say "A bad day at the range is better than a good day anywhere"
I started out with a SMLE Mk. III* that I brought home from my brother's house. The bore was pretty dark so I thought I would put a few rounds down it to loosen up what ever was in the bore. I only shot 10 rounds at a 50 yard target.
I wish I had stuck a target at the 100 yard line after those 10, but I accomplished what I set out to do. When I got home the very first thing I did was scrub the bore down with some Hoppes #9 and it did lighten up a little bit.
After the .303 I went over to the pistol range and put another 100 rounds through the Sig 1911. That makes a total of 500 rounds and I do think it is broken in now. The trigger lightened up a bunch since the first round and I had a couple of flyers when the I pulled the trigger when wasn't quite ready. I shot 50 rounds at 7 yards then moved a couple of steps back and shot the other 50.
I took my Ruger GP100 Match Champion with me since I have only put 18 rounds through it since I bought the thing. I did not get much more than that today when I had an abrupt halt to my shooting with it.
I had three partial boxes of .357 ammo that I had loaded several years ago that I wanted to "get rid of" so I shot about 20 rounds of home cast 150 grain Keith Type bullets, and about another 10 rounds of 158 grain Round Nose Flat Point Berry's bullets, and 10 rounds of 125 grain Berry's HP bullets. I was shooting at 25 yards with these bullets. I emptied two of those partial boxes. and then I had problems!! I did not take pictures of any shots with the Ruger.
When I got rid of all those bullets, I thought I would get serious so I loaded up 6 rounds of 125 grain XTP bullets with H110 powder and put up a new target so I could see how the XTPs shot. I used the same target as the one above.
I went up to the seven yard line and fired. I heard that dreaded little "POOF" and that ended my range session. The bullet went about 3/4 inch into the barrel, I had a short pistol cleaning rod with me but could not get the bullet out of the barrel using it. I loaded everything in the car and came home. I stopped at Wally World and bought a 5/16 wooden dowel to hammer the bullet out.
Here a couple of pictures of the gun, taken right after it happened:
Evidently I must have gotten some thing in the case that contaminated the powder. I loaded these long long before I started wet tumbling, so I can't blame it on water in the case! Whatever it was made the powder into a "pellet", here are pictures of the bullet and the powder pellet. The pellet fell out of the cylinder as I was hammering the bullet from the barrel. You can see the end of the bullet where the cleaning rod did a number on it.
Even with this happening, I will still say "A bad day at the range is better than a good day anywhere"