Did You Go Shooting Today

Shot a couple of magazines of .45 in a borrowed RIA with a 3" barrel. Just a little recoil-y for me, but sort of ok to carry.

Shot a magazine in the CZ and put it back on my belt for the ride home from Battery Oaks.

I guess the "carrying a 1911 in .45" trials are over. (For now.) Not going to work for me. ( For now.) I tried.:(
 
Shot a couple of magazines of .45 in a borrowed RIA with a 3" barrel. Just a little recoil-y for me, but sort of ok to carry.

Shot a magazine in the CZ and put it back on my belt for the ride home from Battery Oaks.

I guess the "carrying a 1911 in .45" trials are over. (For now.) Not going to work for me. ( For now.) I tried.:(
i like that you try to love 45 so hard but it gives you no love back lol
 
I shot a little today. I didn't feel like doing the work of picking up brass or setting up a brass catching net... so I grabbed a bucket.
Shot my heritage 22lr, my remington pump 22lr, and my henry mares leg lever 22lr.
all brass ejected into the bucket, steel targets made a polite clang.
 
I shot a little today. I didn't feel like doing the work of picking up brass or setting up a brass catching net... so I grabbed a bucket.
Shot my heritage 22lr, my remington pump 22lr, and my henry mares leg lever 22lr.
all brass ejected into the bucket, steel targets made a polite clang.
For a reloader, being able to catch all of your brass, but all of it is 22LR, is like kissing your sister. o_O
 
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Yes, only paper/steel targets. Put a new barrel on my 10.3" AR 2.5 yrs ago. Yesterday was keyholing at 3 yds and well past gauged (I've been watching it). Put on a new Colt 10.3" bbl and zero'd it this afternoon.

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How many rounds before the barrel is shot out?
 
Just testfired a once-problematic 9mm Commander following some parts replacement and fitment by Josh at ProShots. That gun had serious issues with three-point lockup and FTEs.

250 rounds of S&B 124gr FMJ and 50 rounds of S&B 124gr JHP, and not a single hang-up. All fed and ejected smartly between 1:30-3:00. No difference in feeding or ejection between the first round in a magazine or the last. Josh did a great job.

It might see occasional carry. It’s very light compared to my 92X and my Model 19, so it might get pulled into Steel Challenge a couple times a year.
 
I got out and shot a couple of oldies - S&W SW99 and Ruger SR9C.

The SW99 reminded me why I enjoy any P99 variant and the SR9C shoots like it was custom-designed specifically for me.
 
Took my RIA 10mm out to get some more break in work done, and to figure out which of my magazines was the problematic one. Fired two hundred and thirty five rounds with no issues other than the aforementioned problematic magazine.
At the three and five yard lines it did great, moved to the seven and I figured out I need to complete the zeroing I didn't finish before
 
I'll posts more later, but in answer to the thread title...




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I did, I did, I did do some shooting ... first time with my new break-action shotgun (or any shotgun for that matter). Posted some photos - embarrassing perhaps - over at the Corral.
 
Hit Woody's this morning. The missus bought me a nifty sun shade umbrella which makes shooting in the short range bays tolerable in the summer sun. This was its first outing and it worked perfectly. It looks a bit silly but sure keeps the sun off while I'm sitting at the table fiddling with the firearms.

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I took revolvers only this time - and a Colt/Anderson mash up carbine with a Ceiner .22 insert (a copy of the M261 adapter).

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Revolvers are: SW M&P .38 special from 1956; Cimarron .45 Colt SAA; Webley MkIV .38 London Metro Police (New Scotland Yard) .38 also from 1956; and a Ruger SSM .32 HR magnum.

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The Colt upper/Anderson lower .223 carbine.

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The SW .38 at 15 yards. Kind of hard to see but 3 rounds in the red and 3 more to the right of center.

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The SAA .45 also at 15 yards. Single hand hold and semi rapid fire. Not too bad. The shoulder shot was just to scare him :) !

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The Ruger .32 magnum at 15 yards. I think I gave him a bad headache.


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One of my 'man stopper' .38SW reloads. It is a 170 gr flat nose bullet doing about 680fps. Probably would do some damage at short range.
 
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Yep. We had a little meet-up: https://www.carolinafirearmsforum.c...riday-7-3-pha-lunch.64457/page-6#post-1152150 (that should go to somewhere on page 6, so you can skip all the planning)

Had at least 14 CFFers and a guest (unless he’s a member and I didn’t know it) our at PHA today. Shot all kinds of stuff. Rare occasion that I actual shot everything I took.

8.5” 300BLK AR pistol w/ F1 can
4” 9mm AR pistol w/ F1 can
5.5” .45 AR pistol w/ Octane 45K
4.5” 15-22 SBR w/ F1 can
7.5” 5.56 AR pistol
10.5” Beowulf SBR
16.5” Beowulf AR
.410 AR firearm
Maxim 9

lots of others shot what they brought, which was a very wide selection...and some of them took a turn on a few of the firearms I brought
 
I took my daughter over to Triangle Shooting Academy today for her first ever live ammo shooting. She started with my old single shot Marlin from this thread:
https://www.carolinafirearmsforum.com/index.php?threads/my-marlin-model-100.56405/

She started off at 15 yds. (I had not previously zeroed this rifle) from a chair and a rest bag. The focus was getting her to keep her finger off the trigger hold the rifle well, and learn iron sights. She struggled because she is right handed/left eye dominant and I had to keep covering her left eye to get her to line up her right eye down the barrel, but overall she did OK.

I could tell she was getting frustrated with he lack of precision, so we switched over to a 10/22 with a cheap red dot. At 15 yds. she obliterated the orange center like one of those carnival "shoot the red star" games, and I started to see a smile. We moved to 25 yds. and she delivered on center then on head shots. We only had time for 20 rounds of stand-up shooting and she now sees how much harder that is.

At that point I think she is hooked. She wants to know when we are going back so she can practice more stand-up shooting.

Everything went well. She was safe all the time, with only 2 reminders about her trigger finger. She swapped out magazines like a pro, and never jammed when chambering ammo after swapping magazines.

Well, everything went well until we were leaving when her doofus dad slung the rifle case over his shoulder and had the single-shot clatter on the concrete because I hadn't fully zippered the soft case closed.

D'oh!

No danger because it was not only unloaded but the bolt was in one of the exterior ammo compartments, but if you were in Bay 1 at TSA today and I startled you, then my apologies.

No matter how careful you try to be, there is always an opportunity to be a doofus.
 
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The old Commander put another couple hundred rounds downrange today with no malfunctions. Prior to Josh's work, I was averaging a malfunction ever 60 rounds. I'm at 500 now without a single problem.

Ran the Advanced Super Test from concealment. No issues with par times (12.78/15 sec at 15 yards, 8.25/10 sec at 10 yards, 4.24/5 sec at 5 yards, 10 shots each).

Passing score is 270/300. I ran a 289 or a 282, depending on whether you score the 7-ring shot at face value or no value. Had trigger freeze on the 10th round at 10 yards; ended up breaking the shot with my fiber optic buried in the bottom right corner of the sight.

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Looking forward to giving it another run with a more deliberate pace (disregarding the draw times, splits averaged 1.10, .70, and .28 each string this go-around). 290+ is very doable.
 
Decided to trek up to Frontline today. I took my PSA AR carbine to run a quick check, and to shoot my Desert Eagle 429 to see how low it is shooting. I also shot my P938 to check the laser alignment.

On a previous trip to the range, I had worked up some loads for my PSA carbine, and was not all that happy with the results. It was ok, but I thought it could be better. Although I was using a scope on it, something made me check the accuracy with the front sight flipped up (a barrel mounted FSB with flip-up sight). The vertical dispersion decreased significantly with the sight flipped up. So, I swapped out the FSB with the original fixed and pinned FSB and tried it again today. I got better groups with it, so I think the flip-up sight, in the down position, wasn’t locked completely tight and was affecting the barrel harmonics. I like flip-up sights on my other guns, but they are mounted to rails on a floating hand guard and not directly to the barrel.

My new DE 429 barrel came with a front sight that is too high, causing a low POI. Today I shot enough rounds to check just how low so I can figure how much to mill off the sight. 15 rounds shot. It is still ejecting up or to the left, though, but it cycles fine. I also let another shooter fire a few shots with it - I think it made his day. :)

I shot 40 rounds through my P938, with and without the laser. The laser is dead on now at 10 yards.

It was about 10:00 at that point and was getting hot enough not to be much fun, so I left. Good time while it lasted, though.
 
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Went to Frontline again this morning. I got my ammo order from SG Ammo yesterday, which included some 303 British, so I figured it was time to take my new (to me) Enfield to try out. It shot really well. The only issue was the magazine, which needed some tweaking to get it to where it would feed. When I got back I did some more work to it and now have it feeding reasonably well. Not good enough for combat, but good enough for a day at the range.

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I also shot the Walther P38, and had the front sight come off. Not surprised, it did not look original to the gun. I’m going to have to figure out how to fix that. The gun did cycle flawlessly, though, I am very pleased about that.

Hot and muggy, I packed up around 10:30.
 
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Zeroed the razor today on my 11.5.

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Zeroed at 100. Then shot across the creek at a steel silhouette at about 175, head shots were easy shooting prone. At 175 rounds were hitting 1.5/2 inches higher than poa. Popped a couple rounds at a 8x10 target at about 300 yards but it’s touching the ground and hard to hear so I didn’t want waste ammo if I wasn’t hitting.


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Today I was reminded that I am a minute of man rifle shooter. Zeroed the new Aero 11.5" AR15 pistol and brought along a 14.5" BCM gun. Zeroed at 50 off the bench and then shot off hand at 50 and 100 with a Sig Romeo 5 and a Aimpoint T2 respectively. Everything stayed within the 0 and -1 on an IDPA target, barely when firing at a leisurely pace. As I sped up things ended up in -3. I guess its back to the pistol range for me. LOL

The Aero Pistol shot great with a LaRue MBT- 2S, Sig Romeo 5 etc. I am pretty happy with the build.

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Normally I would say that is a butt-ugly paint job on that gun, but it actually improves the looks of a Hipoint.

(I can say that, I own three). And the best reason for owning a Glock is so that the Hipoint won't be the ugliest gun in the safe. :D

I sometimes miss them. I sold you some of them way back. Mine never ran as reliably for me as they seem to for everybody else but they were fun to shoot.
 
I sometimes miss them. I sold you some of them way back. Mine never ran as reliably for me as they seem to for everybody else but they were fun to shoot.
I had good luck with the 40 pistol until recently, I get light strikes with it now. I need to box it up and send it back, I think the striker slot in the slide is worn out.

I had sold the 9mm carbine to a friend, but I ended up getting that back. I have not shot it in a while, though.
 
Yes. I know most of you say a bad day at the range is better than a good day most anywhere else, and generally I’d agree. But today was one of those days I’d have been better off staying at home a lighting $100 bill on fire.

I was hoping to sight in a scope on my 6.8 SBR. Have always just run a red dot on it, but traded some ammo (maybe late last year?) for a 1-6X Primary Arms scope. Pulled the BCG out and boresighted it on a neighbor’s tree earlier this week.

Got to PHA today and shot a little rimfire, then headed to the 200yd range. It’s an ACSS scope so I’m supposed to sight it in at 100yds, then use the reticle markings for other distances.

After it going from bad to worse on the first mag, I figured out I’d not gotten the scope mount tight enough on the upper. Tighten that up, moved to the next mag and kept going. I’d brought some mags I’d loaded months ago and didn’t look too close...just noticed they were all FMJ (and not any of my Hornady V-Max). Well, turns out the 2nd mag was some other brand (Remington instead of S&B), and so I’d chased it in one direction only to swap back to a mag of S&B and have to chase it back.

I made some noise, punched some holes, but ended up just packing everything and leaving...no closer to being sighted in than when I started. At that point I was frustrated enough it wasn’t going to do any good to send more coin downrange. :mad:

Never even got to attempt shots at 200.

Next time I need to just find somebody to play spotter, and double-check what I’m doing.

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Yes. I know most of you say a bad day at the range is better than a good day most anywhere else, and generally I’d agree. But today was one of those days I’d have been better off staying at home a lighting $100 bill on fire.

I was hoping to sight in a scope on my 6.8 SBR. Have always just run a red dot on it, but traded some ammo (maybe late last year?) for a 1-6X Primary Arms scope. Pulled the BCG out and boresighted it on a neighbor’s tree earlier this week.

Got to PHA today and shot a little rimfire, then headed to the 200yd range. It’s an ACSS scope so I’m supposed to sight it in at 100yds, then use the reticle markings for other distances.

After it going from bad to worse on the first mag, I figured out I’d not gotten the scope mount tight enough on the upper. Tighten that up, moved to the next mag and kept going. I’d brought some mags I’d loaded months ago and didn’t look too close...just noticed they were all FMJ (and not any of my Hornady V-Max). Well, turns out the 2nd mag was some other brand (Remington instead of S&B), and so I’d chased it in one direction only to swap back to a mag of S&B and have to chase it back.

I made some noise, punched some holes, but ended up just packing everything and leaving...no closer to being sighted in than when I started. At that point I was frustrated enough it wasn’t going to do any good to send more coin downrange. :mad:

Never even got to attempt shots at 200.

Next time I need to just find somebody to play spotter, and double-check what I’m doing.

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Been there and done that. I'll play spotter sometime if you need a volunteer.
 
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