facetious
07-12-2016, 03:10 AM
I will be 59 on the 12th and I have the week off so I told the wife all I wanted was a day to go shooting and not have any thing else I had to do.
The closest real shooting range is all most 90 miles. It is a forest service range and is nice with real bench's. It has been a long time sense I last shot from a good bench and wanted to try some things that got shelved a few years back.
I got some TAC a while back and wanted to try working up a load for my m77mkII in .223 started 23grs. and went up to 25grs. At 24.5 it started getting better at 25 it started opening up. But non of them where any thing I would brag about. Well it is a start. All I have to do now is figure out if it is the load, the Zytel stock or if I am really just not to good of a shot. I'm thinking It may be one of the last two and would like to blame the boat peddle stock.
I got a .308 M77mkII that I got back in the days of Clinton the first and got to shoot 120 jacked bullets out of it then came the big shortage much like this last one. I was all ready shooting cast in .....38s and .357s . I got a couple of molds and had at it. The Lee didn't do so good but my LBT did better. Starting with some 4227 I worked up from the starting load and and things went from not that good to not any better. So with a plinking party to go to I dropped the load one grain loaded some up and off I went and with open sites and all the targets inside 50yds it was like a laser, the small water bottles were the game of the day and I stopped before i used them all up. I loaded up a 150 of them to have on hand but have never shot them on paper with a scope so I had to try them. I don't want to brag about them ether. 50yrds not to bad at a 100 it went down hill. Will have to work on that too.
While I was there, there were two other guys and a gal shooting. Thy were banging a way with a AR and two pistols. We talked a bit while setting targets and looked at each others stuff. The guys had never heard of cast boolits ( thy were in their mid 20's) so I let them shoot a few rounds from the .308. Thy had brought a old hard hat that thy were shooting at the 100yrd line and on the first shot the first guy hit it first try. He shot it a few more times and hit it a couple more times. Then the other guy tryed he was all over couldn't hit it for nothing.
So it was back to what we were doing. The one guy was intent on hitting that hard hat with his AR and I had brought my ..357 Ruger BH out to try. I'm starting to get the old arthritis in the hands and got a set of Hogue stocks to see how thy felt. Now I haven't shot this gun in I don't know how long but in the 80's I shot it a lot and got to were I could hit a milk jug full of sand at 125yds about half the time so I got a good rest and took a shot at his hard hat, nailed it on the first shot and got close enough to scare it before hitting it again. The guy stopped and asked if that was me shooting at it and then saw that I had a hand gun and not the .308. "your hitting it with that!!!" That look was worth the trip!! :bigsmyl2::bigsmyl2::bigsmyl2::bigsmyl2: I bet I was grinning like a poop eating monkey!! Thy had never even looked at one before so I let them try that one too and even got the girl friend to try it, thy got a video of each other shooting it. I didn't have the hart to tell them that there mite have been some luck in there. So I just enjoyed it and thy went home with a story to tell. But I still got it!! :happy dance::happy dance::happy dance::happy dance::happy dance:
I picked up all the brass thy left and some others left by some master blasters and came up with ten pounds 2/3rds are .223/5.56 the rest are .40's and .45's. I all so picked up 21.8 lbs of range scrap to add to the 15lbs I got the last time. Now I have to figure out how to melt all the TMJ ones I picked up, hope I don't have to hit each one with a hammer or some thing. Thy didn't have them the last time I had I was getting range scrap.
The closest real shooting range is all most 90 miles. It is a forest service range and is nice with real bench's. It has been a long time sense I last shot from a good bench and wanted to try some things that got shelved a few years back.
I got some TAC a while back and wanted to try working up a load for my m77mkII in .223 started 23grs. and went up to 25grs. At 24.5 it started getting better at 25 it started opening up. But non of them where any thing I would brag about. Well it is a start. All I have to do now is figure out if it is the load, the Zytel stock or if I am really just not to good of a shot. I'm thinking It may be one of the last two and would like to blame the boat peddle stock.
I got a .308 M77mkII that I got back in the days of Clinton the first and got to shoot 120 jacked bullets out of it then came the big shortage much like this last one. I was all ready shooting cast in .....38s and .357s . I got a couple of molds and had at it. The Lee didn't do so good but my LBT did better. Starting with some 4227 I worked up from the starting load and and things went from not that good to not any better. So with a plinking party to go to I dropped the load one grain loaded some up and off I went and with open sites and all the targets inside 50yds it was like a laser, the small water bottles were the game of the day and I stopped before i used them all up. I loaded up a 150 of them to have on hand but have never shot them on paper with a scope so I had to try them. I don't want to brag about them ether. 50yrds not to bad at a 100 it went down hill. Will have to work on that too.
While I was there, there were two other guys and a gal shooting. Thy were banging a way with a AR and two pistols. We talked a bit while setting targets and looked at each others stuff. The guys had never heard of cast boolits ( thy were in their mid 20's) so I let them shoot a few rounds from the .308. Thy had brought a old hard hat that thy were shooting at the 100yrd line and on the first shot the first guy hit it first try. He shot it a few more times and hit it a couple more times. Then the other guy tryed he was all over couldn't hit it for nothing.
So it was back to what we were doing. The one guy was intent on hitting that hard hat with his AR and I had brought my ..357 Ruger BH out to try. I'm starting to get the old arthritis in the hands and got a set of Hogue stocks to see how thy felt. Now I haven't shot this gun in I don't know how long but in the 80's I shot it a lot and got to were I could hit a milk jug full of sand at 125yds about half the time so I got a good rest and took a shot at his hard hat, nailed it on the first shot and got close enough to scare it before hitting it again. The guy stopped and asked if that was me shooting at it and then saw that I had a hand gun and not the .308. "your hitting it with that!!!" That look was worth the trip!! :bigsmyl2::bigsmyl2::bigsmyl2::bigsmyl2: I bet I was grinning like a poop eating monkey!! Thy had never even looked at one before so I let them try that one too and even got the girl friend to try it, thy got a video of each other shooting it. I didn't have the hart to tell them that there mite have been some luck in there. So I just enjoyed it and thy went home with a story to tell. But I still got it!! :happy dance::happy dance::happy dance::happy dance::happy dance:
I picked up all the brass thy left and some others left by some master blasters and came up with ten pounds 2/3rds are .223/5.56 the rest are .40's and .45's. I all so picked up 21.8 lbs of range scrap to add to the 15lbs I got the last time. Now I have to figure out how to melt all the TMJ ones I picked up, hope I don't have to hit each one with a hammer or some thing. Thy didn't have them the last time I had I was getting range scrap.