This report Is Random because I went to the range today with a mixed bag of objectives.
I took a shotgun that I love, a .22 semi-auto that I haven't loved enough, a .380 auto that needed some serious break in love, and a .45 Auto that is the pistol I love the most.
First I wanted to test my Mossberg 500 shotgun with the new Boyd's wood furniture. It's not really broken in yet and needs to have another hundred rounds shot through it. Unfortunately that didn't happen.
While the shotgun functioned quite well, for the second time I accidentally stuck a 16 gauge shell in a 12 gauge pump. I had accidentally boxed a 16 gauge reload with my 12 gauge reloads.
Nothing really happened except that I had to take a jack handle and bump the 16 gauge shell from the chamber. Generally the gun ran well.
I shot a steel target with some bird loads at 25 yds, and then I shot some double-ought buckshot, and in the process I cracked my Boyd's forestock right in two.
That ended the shotgun action, so we went up to the Members-Only rifle range.
A while back I bought this .380 auto Khar for my wife, and it has never really been broken in properly until today.
I ran 150 fast rounds thru that little gun and it was functioning beautifully.
Even better was the fact that with my eyesight now improved by the cataract surgery my pistol shooting is much improved.
Not so much the target rifles which all depend on high-powered scopes, but I can definitely get a pistol sighted On Target much easier than I used to. I still cannot shoot any pistol I have tried with both eyes open however.
After I did a good break-in on the .380 I switched to the .45 Auto.
My ATI 1911 is not broken in either, and I had to do a fair amount of work on the throat of this gun to get the Bullet Delivery spot on.
Even then it is a tad picky about ammunition.
Today I shot some American Eagles and I shot a mixed bag of reloads from previous sessions. I managed to jam the gun up once or twice, but overall I was very pleased about the way it runs now.
After only 20 rounds through the shotgun, but 300 rounds through the pistols, I was tired and had to sit down and shoot the .22 Marlin.
This was my 4th not really broken in gun.
I have not been able to get my AR repaired under warranty and so I stripped the expensive scope off of my totally unreliable gun, and put it on my Marlin.
Now that that little gun is getting broken in it is developing a taste for High Velocity ammunition and it fortunately I ran out early into the afternoon.
The Marlin shot better than I expected and I was making very tight groups for a .22LR, until the wind opened up and those gusts blew me all over the map.
Now that things are broken in better and I know which ammunition I need to use the range days will go better in the future.
It got up to 102 today and I was the last man standing.
This is the range house at the members-only range. Guests get to shoot at range 2, 3 and 4, which are much smaller.
We live in the desert you know, and except for a hundred and fifty years of irrigation the whole County would look dead like this.
Well it did get to be 102° and everyone else bailed.
Now that is a cold range!
I took a shotgun that I love, a .22 semi-auto that I haven't loved enough, a .380 auto that needed some serious break in love, and a .45 Auto that is the pistol I love the most.
First I wanted to test my Mossberg 500 shotgun with the new Boyd's wood furniture. It's not really broken in yet and needs to have another hundred rounds shot through it. Unfortunately that didn't happen.
While the shotgun functioned quite well, for the second time I accidentally stuck a 16 gauge shell in a 12 gauge pump. I had accidentally boxed a 16 gauge reload with my 12 gauge reloads.
Nothing really happened except that I had to take a jack handle and bump the 16 gauge shell from the chamber. Generally the gun ran well.
I shot a steel target with some bird loads at 25 yds, and then I shot some double-ought buckshot, and in the process I cracked my Boyd's forestock right in two.
That ended the shotgun action, so we went up to the Members-Only rifle range.
A while back I bought this .380 auto Khar for my wife, and it has never really been broken in properly until today.
I ran 150 fast rounds thru that little gun and it was functioning beautifully.
Even better was the fact that with my eyesight now improved by the cataract surgery my pistol shooting is much improved.
Not so much the target rifles which all depend on high-powered scopes, but I can definitely get a pistol sighted On Target much easier than I used to. I still cannot shoot any pistol I have tried with both eyes open however.
After I did a good break-in on the .380 I switched to the .45 Auto.
My ATI 1911 is not broken in either, and I had to do a fair amount of work on the throat of this gun to get the Bullet Delivery spot on.
Even then it is a tad picky about ammunition.
Today I shot some American Eagles and I shot a mixed bag of reloads from previous sessions. I managed to jam the gun up once or twice, but overall I was very pleased about the way it runs now.
After only 20 rounds through the shotgun, but 300 rounds through the pistols, I was tired and had to sit down and shoot the .22 Marlin.
This was my 4th not really broken in gun.
I have not been able to get my AR repaired under warranty and so I stripped the expensive scope off of my totally unreliable gun, and put it on my Marlin.
Now that that little gun is getting broken in it is developing a taste for High Velocity ammunition and it fortunately I ran out early into the afternoon.
The Marlin shot better than I expected and I was making very tight groups for a .22LR, until the wind opened up and those gusts blew me all over the map.
Now that things are broken in better and I know which ammunition I need to use the range days will go better in the future.
It got up to 102 today and I was the last man standing.
This is the range house at the members-only range. Guests get to shoot at range 2, 3 and 4, which are much smaller.
We live in the desert you know, and except for a hundred and fifty years of irrigation the whole County would look dead like this.
Well it did get to be 102° and everyone else bailed.
Now that is a cold range!
