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around here, so I thought I'd chat a bit.

I try to shoot at least a few rounds every week. Depending on how ambitious I feel, I may take one gun or half a dozen. Virtually always shoot by myself as the nearest club is over an hour away and gas is an issue, so I go to the local gravel pit (with the owners permission) and plink at paper or steel targets.

Today was .22 day. Took my Winchester 75 Target with the Redfield peep and my MKII with the Aimpoint. Set a target up roughly 100 yards away and fired a few with the 75. I'd forgotten how nice the trigger is on that thing. After adjusting for elevation, it did quite well, considering the stiff breeze. Kept them all in the black using the rail of the pickup bed as a rest.

Then just for giggles, I put up a fresh target and picked up the MKII. Gave it my best guess, set the dot on the top of the black and danged if I didn't put 10 in the black from 100 yards with that! Again, rested the butt on the rail of the bed and let 'er rip.

Stomping through the mud to the target (rained every day last week) got old and I forgot to take the spotting scope, so I lobbed a coke can out and started driving it around the pit.

Didn't stay long, but got my minimum daily requirement of gunsmoke.

Daughter's new BF says he likes to shoot, I'm gonna hafta gather him and the grandsons up and make an afternoon of it real soon.

I haven't been getting out as much since summer started. Once my local bullseye league ended I just haven't had much time to run down to the range and practice. I need to get out more. It is definitely relaxing to just go and shoot.

Shooting 22hv out at 100 yards yields only about a 5 inch drop over your 25 yard zero. That really isn't much drop considering the distance. But at 25 yards the bullet is still on a upward path of it's trajectory. It doesn't hit apogee until about 40 yards out. This is one reason why 22 is typically known as flat shooting ammo. There's not much difference between the 25 yard and 50 yard zero. These two distances have only about a half of an inch sight impact change difference.

R,
Bullseye

I know what you mean, I get out at least once a week on the weekend for at least an hour. The gun club I belong to is only 10 minutes from my house. If something happens and i can't get out on a weekend at least I have the Thursday night bowling pin league. It's a man on man double elimination.

As much a social event as a shooting competition, lots of fun. We shoot 3 Thursdays a month since the club meeting is on a Thursday.

recumbent wrote:I know what you mean, I get out at least once a week on the weekend for at least an hour. The gun club I belong to is only 10 minutes from my house. If something happens and i can't get out on a weekend at least I have the Thursday night bowling pin league. It's a man on man double elimination.

As much a social event as a shooting competition, lots of fun. We shoot 3 Thursdays a month since the club meeting is on a Thursday.

Now that sounds like som fun pin shooting, the only pin shooting I have cone was solo timed and scored by times. Your clubs shoot sounds like a real good time.

Usually spend Saturday mornings in recoil therapy. There is a fairly regular group that shows up at about the same time. I alternate calibers/types and always take 1-3 .22's. A great way to guarantee I'll never be better than mediocre with any particular firearm. But I bought them to enjoy shooting.

There always seems to be something interesting. This Saturday a guy was shooting his semi-automatic Browning .30 cal that had been modified to look like a mini-50 cal. Spent some time coaching a young lady (40?) who had a flinch so bad that I first thought she was getting hit by something each time she fired. I beginning to think I enjoy the coaching darn near as much as the shooting. It's fun to see someone get excited because it's the first time she put three consecutive rounds in the 10-ring.

Rob, if they are not geting S benefits they are young ladies as far as I am concerned. What did you tell your wife or did yu just keep the old mouth closed?/

Spent some time coaching a young lady (40?) who had a flinch so bad that I first thought she was getting hit by something each time she fired.

I saw a guy doing that once in a match. Every shot he jumped like he was dodging incoming. At first it didn't make sense as he wasn't just jumping when he shot, he was also jumping when others around him shot. Then I looked up and realized he wasn't wearing any hearing protection. Reached into my BDU's and pulled out a set of foamies, handed them to him and said, "Here, try these!" He was much appreciative. He then said it was his first time match shooting. In my best surprised voice I said, "No kidding?"

I can see someone out at the range recreationally shooting with little experience - but how screwed up do you have to be to show up to a shooting competition match with no hearing protection? I could see if someone accidentally forgot their ears, you just ask around and there's a box of foamies somewhere. But this guy just stood there, set up and fired saying nothing to anyone. It takes all kinds.

When I go to a public range I usually spend plenty of time coaching other shooters. Most of the time they'll walk up and say, "How do you do that?" "It looks like your not even hitting the target and then when the target comes back the center is eaten out of it." And the lesson begins from there.

R,
Bullseye

bearandoldman wrote:Rob, if they are not geting S benefits they are young ladies as far as I am concerned. What did you tell your wife or did yu just keep the old mouth closed?/

OH, told her the story, just didn't mention the tight shorts with her name in pink across the butt.

Bullseye wrote:
When I go to a public range I usually spend plenty of time coaching other shooters. Most of the time they'll walk up and say, "How do you do that?" "It looks like your not even hitting the target and then when the target comes back the center is eaten out of it." And the lesson begins from there.

R,
Bullseye

Happens to me all the time....looking like I'm not hitting the target.

I don't know how/why people show up in places like that without hearing protection. I have a 30%+ hearing loss and constant ringing in my ears from being around cannons. About two rounds of almost anything without hearing protection and my ears ring louder to a couple of hours. Put on the muffs before I'm close to the firing line.

greener wrote:

bearandoldman wrote:Rob, if they are not geting S benefits they are young ladies as far as I am concerned. What did you tell your wife or did yu just keep the old mouth closed?/

OH, told her the story, just didn't mention the tight shorts with her name in pink across the butt.

My wife knows better than that, if I ever quit noticing the ladies in the tight shorts and low cut shirts she will have me buried immediately because she knows when that happens I must be DEAD.