Johnch
06-13-2014, 12:46 AM
Since I am not working with the head ackes ( Migraines )
I have spare time .....way to much some days
So this afternoon I had a decent day
So I ask a few of the younger group if they wanted to plink
Ended up taking my cousin's 2 boys and my nephue to the range
The sun was getting a little lower
So as we shot tward the east
The sun reflected off the gas checks perfictly
As I had a bunch of odd 308 cast loads that let my nephue play with those
For my cousins boys
I had the Marlin 45/70 with me
I had 250 or so loaded rounds
The load was the RCBS 350 gr GC boolit pushed with Unique to 1200 fps
Not much recoil for my cousins 10 and 12 year olds and they thought it was great to watch the boolit
We had taken a bunch of pop cans and 2 liter pop bottles with us
I hung the pop cans on strings in front to the backstop
And we filled the pop bottles with water for more fun targets
We all had fun shooting till the ammo ran out
Clean up was a lot less fun for the boys , but they understood it needed to be done
As we picked up 2 garbage bags of trash other people wad left
About 7 we had stuff cleaned up
So we did little lead picking
Youngsters are great helpers
We almost filled 3 - 5 gallon buckets with bullets and boolits
But I know there is a fair amount of tash also
Still way more lead than we shot
Now I have a good reason to cast some evenings again
John
I have spare time .....way to much some days
So this afternoon I had a decent day
So I ask a few of the younger group if they wanted to plink
Ended up taking my cousin's 2 boys and my nephue to the range
The sun was getting a little lower
So as we shot tward the east
The sun reflected off the gas checks perfictly
As I had a bunch of odd 308 cast loads that let my nephue play with those
For my cousins boys
I had the Marlin 45/70 with me
I had 250 or so loaded rounds
The load was the RCBS 350 gr GC boolit pushed with Unique to 1200 fps
Not much recoil for my cousins 10 and 12 year olds and they thought it was great to watch the boolit
We had taken a bunch of pop cans and 2 liter pop bottles with us
I hung the pop cans on strings in front to the backstop
And we filled the pop bottles with water for more fun targets
We all had fun shooting till the ammo ran out
Clean up was a lot less fun for the boys , but they understood it needed to be done
As we picked up 2 garbage bags of trash other people wad left
About 7 we had stuff cleaned up
So we did little lead picking
Youngsters are great helpers
We almost filled 3 - 5 gallon buckets with bullets and boolits
But I know there is a fair amount of tash also
Still way more lead than we shot
Now I have a good reason to cast some evenings again
John