prs
11-12-2014, 09:14 PM
Yesterday was a good day. Bluebird sunny, calm, very warm, low humidity, and 300+ beautiful miles on a motorcycle through these West Virginia hills. Stopped at a shop to stretch my legs and noticed they had no powder, no primers, no rim fire ammo; but the pistol case was stocked. Why do we do it? I have lots of guns, can only shoot two pistols at a time anyway. But that one little pistol was call'n my name. It followed home. This XDs was of recent manufacture, July of 2014, so post recall mods. 45ACP in that little fellow would be punishing to shoot and maybe difficult to hold on target during the buck'n roar, I told myself. And, I shoot only one handed; either hand, but single handed. My joy ride continued until darkness, so at home the new addition only got the precursory stripping, cleaning, inspection and dry fire.
Today was a good day. I got to shoot. Any day you get to shoot has a leg-up on being a good day. It was overcast, windy, cold, damp; no matter, I got to shoot! I used the same 45 ACP rounds I use for my 1911 pistols, 5g of BE under a 200gr SWC (Lee's rendition of sort of a H&G-68). The 96:2:2 air cooled alloy boolits were powder coated, if that matters, and sized .452". The 2 included 5 round mags were filled 10 times each during the session. Zero, nada, zilch problems. They all fed like butter. The steel cowboy action type targets were ringing without fail at 50' shooting right or left handed and I was even able to pick my spots on the targets for POI. Fifty shots each hand at a "fair", yet casual speed, no misses, and only a little soreness of the right hand where I failed to achieve a good grip a time or two. Clean-up was a Ballistol patch and a couple of dry patches before a light oiling of several places per the book. I did not expect to do so well with the little monster.
prs
Today was a good day. I got to shoot. Any day you get to shoot has a leg-up on being a good day. It was overcast, windy, cold, damp; no matter, I got to shoot! I used the same 45 ACP rounds I use for my 1911 pistols, 5g of BE under a 200gr SWC (Lee's rendition of sort of a H&G-68). The 96:2:2 air cooled alloy boolits were powder coated, if that matters, and sized .452". The 2 included 5 round mags were filled 10 times each during the session. Zero, nada, zilch problems. They all fed like butter. The steel cowboy action type targets were ringing without fail at 50' shooting right or left handed and I was even able to pick my spots on the targets for POI. Fifty shots each hand at a "fair", yet casual speed, no misses, and only a little soreness of the right hand where I failed to achieve a good grip a time or two. Clean-up was a Ballistol patch and a couple of dry patches before a light oiling of several places per the book. I did not expect to do so well with the little monster.
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