Did You Go Shooting Today

A forum member and I went to Woody’s today to have some recoil therapy. 5 suppressed AR15s, a suppressed Scorpion SBR, a suppressed Rossi 92 in 38/357, a 9mm AK, a Taurus TX22 competition and a 9mm 1911 joined us. 158gr 38spl thru a YHM R9 was the highlight of the trip. Even quieter than the 9mm bunny fart rounds I previously made (147gr over 2.8gr of TG)
 
Got back on the .45 yesterday (the NC Shooting Sports Games and Camp Perry are both happening over the next two months).

Practicing long line doubles for Perry (the wind off Lake Erie is notoriously tricky).

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I was stuck around 90 all morning with the .45. The longslide .22 conversion was in the mid-90s. Too many 8s with the .45 and too many 9s with the .22.

Short line training was boring and consistent. Need to get back in the .45 recoil rhythm again.
 
I didn’t really go to the range, just in my back yard. I got my new Garmin Xero chrono and wanted to try it out, so I got out my air rifle and shot a few rounds.

The Garmin is even smaller than I thought it would be, it is tiny. It will fit in my pants pocket even with the folded tripod attached.

With my Labradar, I would have to use an external sensor to pick up the air rifle firing, but not with the Garmin. It picked up the shots with no problem.

Even though it has a smaller screen and fewer buttons, the user interface is much easier to navigate than the Labradar. For me, the Labradar is a real pain to use without the phone app. The Garmin is very useable without the app, I can see myself only using the app to extract the session data when I get home. On the other hand, the Labradar has a SD memory card that I can read the information from with my laptop.

The Labradar does have one advantage that I have used a few times. It stores data for each shot, which includes the velocity as it goes downrange. It can read 223 bullets past 50 yards, and 45 caliber bullet much farther. I would say 99% of the users will probably never use this information, but I have found it useful.

Garmin really did their homework with this product.
 
Wife and I went to TSA today. We shot a total of about 200 rounds, split between 22, 9mm, 38spl and 45acp. She shot her Ruger SR22 and CZ97, I shot a CZ 75 and Ruger GP100. Had a couple of failures to feed with the 22, it ejected the case but did not cycle far enough to pick up the next round.

When we were done, she said she is rusty and we need to go shooting more often. :)

We left there and went for supper at Bob Evans. It was a good day.
 
I am pretty sure I fired the best 25-yard group of my entire life yesterday.

Long story short, I went from nearsighted with astigmatism, which didn’t affect me with iron sights, to presbyopic and nearsighted with astigmatism at the same time. So, I need a dot (with my distance glasses) or custom reading lenses to shoot irons.

I put a Sig Romeo 5 on my ribbed 1911. According to the bullseye forum, they’re holding up great on the downloaded .45s. So are the Holosuns and Primary Arms dots.

It seemed pretty close to zeroed. Once the Loctite dried, I was dryfiring, and the dot seemed to point where I was looking.

I went to OnPoint. I loaded a mag with five rounds of Atlanta Arms match .45 (185gr JHP at 800 fps), and I cranked five rounds, one-handed, at a 25-yard B8 repair center. I saw no holes in the white, so I figured the dot was pretty close to zeroed.

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In two decades, I have never had an optic mount to a near-perfect zero. I also don’t think I’ll ever shoot a group that small ever again. Not without sandbags.
 
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Ran a box through my M&P 9 this afternoon. Such a smooth shooter!

Then I zero'ed the iron sights on my AR-V. I installed an 8oz buffer to address ftf's and it was a vast improvement. Still had three ftf's from 50 rounds, but I'm pretty sure one of those was from poor shoulder placement. I'm going to add a Delrin spacer next week hoping that and the buffer will smooth out the feed issues.
 
Went to DPRC with my son today. I took a bunch of old military hardware to shoot, as my son has become interested in WWII history lately. Here are photos of him shooting an M1-Garand and a Enfield. It is about an hour drive to/from the range, which gave us plenty of time to have a nice father/son conversation.

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We also took turns shooting an M1 Carbine, Yugo Mauser, Nagant revolver, and M1911/A1.
 
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Toprudder said:
Went to DPRC with my son today. I took a bunch of old military hardware to shoot, as my son has become interested in WWII history lately. Here are photos of him shooting an M1-Garand and a Enfield. It is about an hour drive to/from the range, which gave us plenty of time to have a nice father/son conversation.

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We also took turns shooting an M1 Carbine, Yugo Mauser, Nagant revolver, and M1911/A1.
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We were there on Range 7 at the buffalo bore match. Hate we missed ya!
 
SINNER said:
We were there on Range 7 at the buffalo bore match. Hate we missed ya!
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As we were on the way out, I thought about stopping and checking out the competition. Wish I had known you were there. We were just around the corner at range 9.
 
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As we were in the way out, I thought about stopping and checking out the competition. Wish I had known you were there. We were just around the corner at range 9.
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Stop by next month same range same Sunday. There are multiple CFFers there
 
Spent my memorial day weekend at my grandparents in BFE, SC where I met my future brother-in-law. He'd never shot a gun and seemed pretty neutral on guns initially. His tune changed pretty quickly after getting to shoot and I told him to message me if he ever wanted advice on what to buy. 😁

We only shot handguns, but he really enjoyed shooting the suppressed 9x19s and .22LRs. He also shot about 20 rounds of 10MM through an STI Nitro 10 and was hitting every shot center of mass in the half-sized silhouette at around 10 yards.

It was also nice to shoot suppressed without hearing pro (as required by the ranges where I shoot). This is me in the picture since I don't want to post pictures of others without their permission.

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JBoyette said:
Man I am getting old.
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Ditto.

The State Championship over the weekend was 13 unique stages with tons of movement, plus taping up. 257 rounds fired over the 8 hour match. Plus, had to redo the final stage after finishing it because the SO gave me improper instructions. That was just match day... also volunteered at the range for 4 days settin' everything up before that.

I slept very well that night. Gettin' old. 20 years ago would have went drinking with the guys, now it's going home and rubbin' in Voltaren.
 
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