Hi...
I spent most of Sunday at the two gun clubs I belong to with my son.
We just joined a new to us club last week, so we spent a few hours there shooting steel plates with some of our handguns and then another couple of hours practicing with his AR15s.
After taking a break for lunch we went to the other gun club to attempt to tune up a few bolt action rifle. We had to wait until after 3PM to shoot on the rifle range because they hold the high power matches there the last Sunday of every month.
Had a great time...burned up a lot of steel cased .223 and a bunch of bulk handgun cartridges that my son had stockpiled. Also shot up a bunch of old China Sport .45ACP cartridges that my son got for practically nothing at an auction this spring.
I did a bunch of speed drills at 15yds with both my .45ACP 1911 carry guns and with one of my Colt Troopers .357Mag revolvers. I thought I shot 5 steel plates at 15yds with all three handguns at a pretty good pace with only a couple of misses over a couple hundred rounds. I hadn't shot any speed drills on steel in many years... I was able to keep the steel ringing fast enough to get some positive feedback from my son.
Over at the other range, I was able to shoot a new to me Interarms Mark X in 7x57 for the first time.
I only shot it at 50 yds to see how it did. I shot four 3-shot groups at 50 yds and they were consistently about 1" to the right of the bullseye and touching each other. The rifle apparently has potential so I suppose I will remove the cheap BSA scope that it came with.
Probably will get a Leupold or Vortex in the 3x9 range for it.
The other rifle of mine that I shot was my Sako L579 in .243. I shot a number of three shot groups at 100yds and was pleased to see it consistently shoot about a 1" group just about an inch high.
Next time I take it out I will shoot it at 200yds and fine tune it at that range.
My son shot very well with his left hand Tikka .308 as always.
He had considerably less success with his new to him M700 in .270.
This is a rifle that he bought to learn to shoot right handed because one day he will inherit quite a few nice RH rifles from me.
He had a lot of trouble getting a good sight picture with the Vortex scope he put on it and getting comfortable with shooting right handed particularly with trigger technique.
I explained to him that it is not easy to transition from LH to RH rifle shooting and that it would take a few range trips to get comfortable with it. He got fairly frustrated with his lack of success unfortunately.
Still, we managed to have a good time particularly shooting steel plates. My son had a great time with a couple of his 10mm autos doing that. His Ruger 1911 in 10mm is a very nice hand gun and capable of excellent accuracy.
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Originally Posted by buckwheatpaul
