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whats your go to gun? the one that always goes with you to the range or the one thats you seem to shoot the best.

mine is quickly turning into my Smith 10-2 38.

1934 Hi Standard Model C

22 short.

I love this gun. It just shoots. ANY time I point it at something I hit it. No exception. It jams occasionally with CCI and Remington ammo, but it loves Winchester.

1938 Colt Woodsman.
S&W 38/44 N frame
Rem. Mdl 581 Left hand bolt .22 (Loves Federal bulk pak)
I know that's 3, but love them all (and others too), and these 3 pretty much go to the range regularly.
If the feces should it the ventilataor, then the .40 XD

The 1911 is my overall best shooting platform, although I'm getting very good with the Glock style pistol too.

R,
Bullseye

do you have to set your Glock BACK one hour in the fall???

bgreenea3 wrote:whats your go to gun? the one that always goes with you to the range or the one thats you seem to shoot the best.

That's two questions, really.

The gun that always goes to the range is a Ruger mkIII that Dr Bullseye helped me learn the ins and outs of, and I have one tweaked just right for me as well as one tweaked just right for MrsBFD
One of them ALWAYS goes to the range, sometimes both.

My go-to gun is a different thing entirely.
Handgun:
It would be a handgun suitable for carry that I'm comfortable with. As of now, that's my compact 1911 (Citadel), my PPS (Walther), or MrsBFD's XD9sc (Springfield Armory)
Possibly moving onto the list would be a CZ82 (czech surplus), I haven't decided if it is a mousegun or a duty gun yet.

Long Gun:
M1 carbine or Kel Tec sub2000 - those two are light, have plenty of ammo and loaded mags, and I'm extremely comfortable with either. If I had to bug out it might come down to which I came across first while packing, unless I needed a folding model. (OK, I'd take both somehow, and lots of magazines/ammo for each)
The KT is actually in a case with mags and ammo just for disaster situations (a nearby town got hit fairly hard by tornadoes recently, I had some time listening to emergency broadcasts to ponder what I'd really need if the roof got torn off and a non-folding un-concealable long gun wasn't on the list)

Mark II Ruger Target model

My MKIII, BHP, and Sig 229 always go with me.

Right now, I am trying to learn how to dope the wind. For this purpose I always bring along my Savage 93R17BTVS, a bull-barreled .17HMR rifle in stainless steel with a laminated thumb-hole stock.

http://www.savagearms.com/images/firear ... 17btvs.png

On a calm day, this rifle is accurate enough to shoot flies that light on the target, 100 yards away - but calm days are very rare here at the southern tip of Texas, where we normally have a 15 MPH SE breeze from the Gulf of Mexico to deal with.

I have to get to the range at sunrise in order to have any hope for an hour or so of calm... Usually I am busy with my family about then, so that's very seldom an option for me.

I normally prefer to shoot centerfire rifles at the range, but the .17 HMR is teaching me a lot about dealing with the wind - and I've got a lot to learn so the Savage has ended up being my #1 "go-gun" for a trip to the range.

If anybody had told me a year ago that it would be that way, I would have thought they were nuts.

I bought the thing in order to shoot varmints around the farm, but it turned out to be a barrel of fun to shoot, and is the most accurate rifle I currently own. The main selling point for me about the cartridge was the reduced likelihood of a ricochets in the field.

Don't get me wrong though... The .243, the 30-06, the .22, the .40 and the .45 go along too, just about every time. - I only have a few 'hanger queens' and unfinished projects that sit around in the safe, and seldom if ever make the trip to the range.

MKII 5 1/2" and AR service rifle usually go to the range unless I'm going there to work up loads on something else. Then I usually just take the MKII and whatever I'm working on.

My MK-III and my 1911 seem to make it to the range more than any of the others here lately.

My Mark III.

I love my Smith 686-6 6" fully lugged 357 revolver.
It is accurate, comfortable to shoot, don't have to chase
brass around, shoots spl's or magnums, built well, simple design,
and the S&W name has some nostalgic respect to it.
I presume it will always have a decent resale value.
Just my 2 cents,
Haka

What I seem to have out is an S&W Mod 65 w/125gr HP's (.357) and the 442 with 125gr HP in .38 special.

An acquaintance was reloading his mod 60 with .38 special Hornady FTX (filled hollowpoints) for supposed better jacket penetration. Not sure if it gives much advantage.

The way it's suppose to work is like this. The filled makes it penetrate like a round nose. Once it reaches a fluid it will push in through the filling and expand like a std HP. If it has a red some silicon/rubber filing it may be the same bullet use on Hornady's Critical Defense ammo, but I did not think Hornady was going to sell them seperately.