Monday had a small window of opportunity before drenching rains hit Aubury, but I raced out there before opening, hoping to get a few shots in before the weather closed in. As it turns out, favorable winds blew the clouds out then died off, to nearly perfect conditions.
I took the new Ruger .308 Precision Rifle, the Marlin .45-70, and the .22 Marlin Model 60. I also got to shoot the new Magnum Research .45-70 6-shot stainless revolver, owned by my buddy the FFL.
That revolver was quite the weapon, shooting a cone of flame which ignited 10" off the muzzle and was visibly 12" with a 12" span. Wish I had got a photo of that but I was having too much fun shooting it.
That's a heavy duty revolver and it didn't kick nearly as much as you might think. In .50 Smith & Wesson it would probably be worse.
The Marlin .22 was rather dirty. Somehow I had neglected to clean it the last time I went out with six or seven guns in tow. It didn't seem to care and was able to hook up nice rapid fire patterns at 50 and 100 yards. The .22 shot like a champion and was a lot of fun after working bolt guns and lever guns and revolvers.
The Ruger precision rifle was very interesting. I'm not sure I'm going to like .308 Winchester as well as I had originally imagined.
But the rifle is quite a treat, and I would have shot it better except that it has a hair trigger. I'm absolutely not used to it.
The scope is a new Leupold gold ring 3-9×40, which is not my first choice for this gun, but it's a good scope & the price was good. This scope will go on a .22 when I find a deal on my dreamscope.
The old scope ring setup I used is not the greatest and I ended up shimming it around in order to get a good sight-in at 50 yards. But ultimately it worked and I was able to shoot this in the wind.
I took 5 shots to sight in the scope, and two of them you see on this target at 6 o'clock low and 7:00 in the 8 ring.
The next shot I nicked the bullseye, and then strung four in the 9 ring.
Then I took aim at the 100-yard target and I managed to shoot this. The bullseye is 1" and the X-ring is 3".
Not exactly sub MOA but it was windy and I'm shooting white box Factory loads.
5 shots were Winchester 180 grain deer loads and five shots were 150 grain Winchester deer loads. The 180s all fell in the X-ring and the 150s mostly fell in the 10 Ring.
Everything got a thorough cleaning at home which means that I disassembled the model 60 extensively. That little gun can hold an amazing amount of crap and still work great.
I took the new Ruger .308 Precision Rifle, the Marlin .45-70, and the .22 Marlin Model 60. I also got to shoot the new Magnum Research .45-70 6-shot stainless revolver, owned by my buddy the FFL.
That revolver was quite the weapon, shooting a cone of flame which ignited 10" off the muzzle and was visibly 12" with a 12" span. Wish I had got a photo of that but I was having too much fun shooting it.
That's a heavy duty revolver and it didn't kick nearly as much as you might think. In .50 Smith & Wesson it would probably be worse.
The Marlin .22 was rather dirty. Somehow I had neglected to clean it the last time I went out with six or seven guns in tow. It didn't seem to care and was able to hook up nice rapid fire patterns at 50 and 100 yards. The .22 shot like a champion and was a lot of fun after working bolt guns and lever guns and revolvers.
The Ruger precision rifle was very interesting. I'm not sure I'm going to like .308 Winchester as well as I had originally imagined.
But the rifle is quite a treat, and I would have shot it better except that it has a hair trigger. I'm absolutely not used to it.
The scope is a new Leupold gold ring 3-9×40, which is not my first choice for this gun, but it's a good scope & the price was good. This scope will go on a .22 when I find a deal on my dreamscope.
The old scope ring setup I used is not the greatest and I ended up shimming it around in order to get a good sight-in at 50 yards. But ultimately it worked and I was able to shoot this in the wind.
I took 5 shots to sight in the scope, and two of them you see on this target at 6 o'clock low and 7:00 in the 8 ring.
The next shot I nicked the bullseye, and then strung four in the 9 ring.
Then I took aim at the 100-yard target and I managed to shoot this. The bullseye is 1" and the X-ring is 3".
Not exactly sub MOA but it was windy and I'm shooting white box Factory loads.
5 shots were Winchester 180 grain deer loads and five shots were 150 grain Winchester deer loads. The 180s all fell in the X-ring and the 150s mostly fell in the 10 Ring.
Everything got a thorough cleaning at home which means that I disassembled the model 60 extensively. That little gun can hold an amazing amount of crap and still work great.
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