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#1 ·
I have to work Sunday and due practice time with my CCW , will be in line at the Indoor Range Saturday morning. The little M&P is like an Engine , performs best when it gets warmed up so may need a couple more boxes of 9MM.
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#77 ·
Took an old friend shooting yesterday. Remington 700 Varmint Synthetic 308. With Canadian surplus ammo she was shooting 3" ish groups @100 yards. Shooting some old Venezuelan stuff about an 1.5" with weird flyers every group opening it up to 4+". That ammo seems a little hot, extraction was stiff. With Federal 168 grain OTM the ol girl would hold 1/2" if I did my part. The cheap old Simmons scope didn't make it easy, guess my old eyes require I step up and put a little better glass on this solid gun.
 
#80 ·
You got some good groups with the iron sights. Well done.

Any ideas why the scope would not adjust?
 
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#84 ·
Thanks BlackEagle I was doing it wrong ,should have checked the manual. I'm going to reinstall it correctly with locktite and scope rings. I'm limited with eye relief adjustment with the one piece mount. It felt great to get out to the range and sunshine , I'm overwhelmed with back bills ,Insurance , unemployment forms and now the D.O.T wants Med records
 
#85 ·
OK...Fill out some forms, take a range break, go back to the forms, take a walk and enjoy nature, fill out more forms. Go to bed. Sleep. Wake up. Take a walk and enjoy nature. Fill out more forms. Take a range break to work off the frustration. Fill out more forms. Run a mile or two to enjoy nature and work off frustrations (by now your frustrations overwhelm any back problems you may have).

Repeat until all the forms are filled in, sent in, and your ammo is exhausted.:cool:
 
#86 ·
Out the other day with a New Ruger American Rimfire (22). Bushnell scope with parallax set to 100, 100 yard range. Couldn't get it anywhere close to where I wanted it. Bore sight, look thru the scope. Who knows where the bullet went. Yesterday, 50 yard range, parallax on the scope set to 50, one inch groups. 200 rounds shot. And 150 9mm thru my 9mm SA RO (G) I dunno, maybe senior moments on the 100 yard range. I'll try the 100 again next week..
 
#90 ·
Six or seven years ago I couldn't get my scope to adjust properly. After a box of ammo I gave up for the day. I was shooting out the door of my shop, and when I went to pull the door down, saw that the pull rope was severely damaged. It took a while to add 2+2. Tried it the next day with the rope out of the way, and all was good.
 
#94 ·
Went out to the Range with plans shooting 10/22 on a nice day . After a small elevation adjustment POI was just right at 50 yards. I locked the bolt to run a Rip Cord through and the bolt release jammed. Back home found the lock spring had jumped off the bolt release , have no idea how . At least I'm learning how to disassemble and assemble 10/22 trigger
 
#97 ·
I didn't actually do any shooting today, but our club hosted the local chapter of the Airbourne Alliance. We had a great day. Veterans all, they enjoyed getting out on the range.

I brought my Jager .22 (looks like an M-16), my Ruger 10-22, and my gallery rifle. Several guys shot the Jager for its looks. I took my bench rest, and they shot the center out of the targets!!

They took their targets home, happy shooters. The Jager was a "fun gun" to shoot; the gallery rifle was the most satisfying. That was their verdict.

A few of our club members brought black powder revolvers; one brought his Gibbs muzzle loading rifle and gave people a crack on those if they wanted. I had brought my Remington 1858 along, but was too busy supervising people on my .22's and gallery rifle to bring it out.

After around three hours of general shooting, we had a barbeque lunch, then back out to the range for a competition among the members of the Airbourne Alliance. They had a ball. One guy particularly requested my Jagerr; another used my Ruger 10-22. He took home a trophy.

For me it was as much fun watching them shoot as it is for me to shoot.
 
#101 ·
Marlin 1894 in .38/.357. I put a scope on it. I'll get a better picture of it later.

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#103 · (Edited)
We have competitions for gallery rifle small bore (.22) and gallery rifle center fire (.44 or .38/.357).

The vast majority of .22's here are Ruger 10-22's but there is a scattering of other rifles.

About 99% of the center fire rifles are Marlins, but there is the occasional Winchester or Rossi.
 
#104 ·
This was taken a few years ago, but it shows one stage of a gallery rifle competition.

The smaller targets are for those shooting .22 (semi auto, mostly Ruger 10-22), the larger for those shooting lever action .44 or .38/.357. The targets are on programmable turners. For a timed and deliberate stage, we get, for example, two minutes to shoot 12 rounds starting with six loaded at 25 yards. For other stages we go up to the 15 and 10 yard line. There we might have a three second exposure for a single shot, or five seconds for a double tap. Some competitions we have stages where we go back to the 50 yard line; others we change positions--sitting, kneeling, prone, strong shoulder, weak shoulder...all with a good dose of time pressure.

Maximun score is often 300 depending on which competition we are shooting, with hits in the X ring being the deciding factor in a tie score. Some guys get into the high 200's. I go along to have fun. I usually make everyone else look good at these competitions.:D

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