Buckshot
10-26-2005, 02:29 AM
............Last week it was cool and had rained overnight and when I got to the range there was just one other guy there. Ray the rangemaster said he was going to shut it down as it was supposed to rain some more. I think he just wanted to close. El Pistolero showed up just after I'd left. Deputy Al was getting ready for his hunting trip to Communistic Canuckistan so was a no show, and the others come to find out called the range.
Since we were going to shoot pistols last week, we just carried it over to this week. There was the 4 of us shooting. I won! :D It wasn't my idea to shoot peestols, but it seems a couple of'em have a hard time about me shooting the mighty K-38. I guess I'm supposed to shoot somehting I know is a less capable pistol?
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While I know it's not anything to brag about so far as an accomplished handgun shooter could probably do, it was a pretty fair job for me. An 88-1X and with that 6 and 7 too! The load was Lee 148gr TL-WC's over 3.0grs of W231. I always wonder, if a person can put 5 into the 10 ring, why is it so blessed hard to put the OTHER 5 in there too![smilie=b:
I don't recall what El Pistolero was shooting but Larry was shooting an 1875 Remington in 45 Colt, and Glen was shooting a 1911 45 ACP. I really don't know how Glen expects to win when he shoots ammo other people have given him? Nor do I believe it to be too smart either. He fired one round I happened to catch out of the corner of my eye that really bounced the pistol.
A bit later he mentioned it and I said, "I saw that". He showed me the case. It had a nickle plated primer and it looked brand new except in the middle where there was a brass dot. The primer was flat. It had obviously set back into the firing pin hole and had the nickle plating (and maybe some of the brass?) sheared off.
I had welded up myself a set of 5 swingers hanging on a horizontal bar and at home the 3" squares looked kinda big. Out there at 25 yards they didn't look so huge anymore :D. They worked real well though except the top bar was a piece of re-bar. As they'd swing around at a hit, the ridges in the re-bar had a tendancy to wind them to the right. After a bit of shooting they'd all be in a clump at the right end!
I guess I'll have to get some 1/2" washers and weld'em on the bar to keep that from happening.
.............Buckshot
Since we were going to shoot pistols last week, we just carried it over to this week. There was the 4 of us shooting. I won! :D It wasn't my idea to shoot peestols, but it seems a couple of'em have a hard time about me shooting the mighty K-38. I guess I'm supposed to shoot somehting I know is a less capable pistol?
http://www.fototime.com/F46E933E1991C17/standard.jpg
While I know it's not anything to brag about so far as an accomplished handgun shooter could probably do, it was a pretty fair job for me. An 88-1X and with that 6 and 7 too! The load was Lee 148gr TL-WC's over 3.0grs of W231. I always wonder, if a person can put 5 into the 10 ring, why is it so blessed hard to put the OTHER 5 in there too![smilie=b:
I don't recall what El Pistolero was shooting but Larry was shooting an 1875 Remington in 45 Colt, and Glen was shooting a 1911 45 ACP. I really don't know how Glen expects to win when he shoots ammo other people have given him? Nor do I believe it to be too smart either. He fired one round I happened to catch out of the corner of my eye that really bounced the pistol.
A bit later he mentioned it and I said, "I saw that". He showed me the case. It had a nickle plated primer and it looked brand new except in the middle where there was a brass dot. The primer was flat. It had obviously set back into the firing pin hole and had the nickle plating (and maybe some of the brass?) sheared off.
I had welded up myself a set of 5 swingers hanging on a horizontal bar and at home the 3" squares looked kinda big. Out there at 25 yards they didn't look so huge anymore :D. They worked real well though except the top bar was a piece of re-bar. As they'd swing around at a hit, the ridges in the re-bar had a tendancy to wind them to the right. After a bit of shooting they'd all be in a clump at the right end!
I guess I'll have to get some 1/2" washers and weld'em on the bar to keep that from happening.
.............Buckshot