Yes, matter of fact I did. As was mentioned earlier, my son and I met up with
@Jeppo and
@Zbizzle911 at PHA this morning.
75° and not a cloud in sight. What a day to be at the range.
First up was to shoot the AR I walked my son through building. I took some pics along the way of that process and it’s posted here if you missed it:
https://www.carolinafirearmsforum.c...nd-stripped-lower-to-functioning-ar-15.44122/
My son and I took one bay to work on that one while the other two started in the bay next door. I pulled the upper off the lower, and boresighted to get the red dot lined up. Not too bad...these were the first three shot (one by him, two by me) from ~35yds:
Shot 10 shots or so unsuppressed just to confirm there were any stability issues, then attached the Omega. Fairly quick adjustment to get the holes in the red after silencer was attached.
While that was going on, I could hear the other two shooting. I know there was some 9mm, .38 and 5.56. I’d also left my Maxim on their shooting table and I think Zbiz ran a mag through it. I’d warned them at some point I’d bring out the obnoxious rifle. So out came the 7.5” 5.56 SBR with a riot brake (Mas Defense). It didn’t take but a couple shots before they came around the corner to see what was going on.
There’s no point in posting a video. The “fun” part of shooting it is not the noise or fireball. It’s the blast of gas and unburnt powder hitting your hands and face, and the concussion that rattles your teeth. And while all that is going on, there’s basically zero recoil. Zbiz said it almost felt like ok the first shot the brake pulled the rifle away from his shoulder instead of the blast pushing it into his shoulder.
The only other shooting I did at that time was ran a mag through the suppressed 4.5” 15-22...otherwise known as the Giggle Stick. Jeppo had never seen it before, so I shot one mag just so he’d see how it did. He has a standard 15-22, but I think he said he hadn’t shot it, yet.
After that I packed our stuff up and moved into their bay. My son (Lucas) got a chance to shoot Jeppo’s NCSHP S&W 66-1. Rang steel at ~35yds with it. Also shot some of Zbiz’s Glock 45 and 12.5” 5.56 AR pistol and was easily ringing the steel with both. Some of that was going on while I was packing up next door, so video was shared. I spliced three of them together and end up with this:
Somewhere in the middle of all that I shot a mag through Zbiz’s G45, a cylinder full of Jep’s 66-1, and a mag through my Maxim.
Once that shooting was over we got lucky and the guy finally left the bay we wanted. It’s the only one of the open bays that actually allows you to shoot 50yds...and that’s the distance we needed for the rimfire challenge.
Man, that was a disaster. In case you don’t follow those, here’s the current thread:
https://www.carolinafirearmsforum.c...-july-50-yard-22lr-benchrest-challenge.44826/
First step is to shoot a single stripe on the page. Yeah, shoot a stripe that <.1” wide at 50 yards. After I took a couple warm up shots to make sure it was still zeroed, low and behold my first shot on target was here:
Don’t be too impressed...3 of the next five missed the other parts of the target by and inch or more. The wind was pretty bad, and I’m still not convinced the CCI SV is the right ammo for my CZ455.
After that...the four of us headed to BBQ Joe’s to meet up with a table full of CFF members. Yum!
https://www.carolinafirearmsforum.com/index.php?threads/next-bbq-joes-meetup.44750/