32 Degree Range

[HuckleberryFun]

Went to the English Pit in Vancouver today because I just couldn't wait to shoot my latest gun. Also did a practice run for a postal league match. It was 32 friggin degrees out. I was the only one on the pistol side for nearly the whole time. I heard one other person on the rifle side. Fired 150 rounds before turning blue and packing it in. I'd consider myself hardcore but, let's face it, mostly I'm just stupid.

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[edslhead]

Your fine. I went to LVG golfin yesterday and the greens were froze solid. If you hit em the ball would bounce 30 or so feet and keep going. I did hear guys shootin shot across Vancouver lake. Its froze over and the geese look weird standing up in the middle

 

[slimmer13]

Went to the English Pit in Vancouver today because I just couldn't wait to shoot my latest gun. Also did a practice run for a postal league match. It was 32 friggin degrees out. I was the only one on the pistol side for nearly the whole time. I heard one other person on the rifle side. Fired 150 rounds before turning blue and packing it in. I'd consider myself hardcore but, let's face it, mostly I'm just stupid.

If it was 32 here, I'd turn in my big boy pants for short pants.

 

[Certaindeaf]

I shot on a 360 degree range.. I was hot!

 

[Oathkeeper1775]

There was tons (nominal) of .45 ACP and other pistol brass under the ice and snow last Monday. We spent more time around the burn barrel; did some training and still had fun.

 

[teflon6string]

Went to the English Pit in Vancouver today because I just couldn't wait to shoot my latest gun. Also did a practice run for a postal league match. It was 32 friggin degrees out. I was the only one on the pistol side for nearly the whole time. I heard one other person on the rifle side. Fired 150 rounds before turning blue and packing it in. I'd consider myself hardcore but, let's face it, mostly I'm just stupid.

...but smart enough to realize it!

Cold can be brutal for shooting. Especially with hand-thrown clays since I never shoulder up until I see them fly. Holding a shotgun down somewhere about a foot below port arms, I don't tend to stomp through the brush with a weapon shouldered, and I don't believe birds are under any obligation sit still until someone says "pull."

Sighting up and shooting fast like that with an ice cold 12 gauge pump on a cold windy day can be @#$%ing painful on a bare trigger hand. So I got a pair of those $4 rubber palmed stretchy work gloves at Home Depot a couple years ago and I like 'em a lot. Nice and thin for handling ammo, etc. They reduce my cussing by about 50%, and the backs are cloth to deal with that freezing drippy nose thing.

 

[clearconscience]

Thats what they make indoor ranges for!

Safe fire was just down the street!

 

[11Charlie]

I would have paid to go indoors and shoot. 32 a little to chilly for me unless your hunting and hiking but for fun bubblegum that.

 

[clearconscience]

Yeah I like the cooler weather, but below 40degs is just miserable.
Even with a fire.

 

[Boboclown]

I would have kept shooting to be honest. Best time I had at the range was when it was 34 and raining, no one else was there to bother me.

 

[Flopsweat]

Heh, one of my lowest rounds of golf was in sub-32-degree weather. This morning I'm about to head out to a shooting event and it's 33 degrees out.

Full disclosure, I skipped my walk last night because it was too damn cold.

 

[Rocklock]

BP range at TCGC has a warming shed with a woodstove and a good supply of fuel. Takes the pain out of winter shooting.

 

[HuckleberryFun]

BP range at TCGC has a warming shed with a woodstove and a good supply of fuel. Takes the pain out of winter shooting.

You TCGC guys sure live the good life.
Like shooting at "Downton Abbey".

 

[Rocklock]

You TCGC guys sure live the good life.
Like shooting at "Downton Abbey".

Not really, we still have to load the guns ourselves.

 

[HuckleberryFun]

Not really, we still have to load the guns ourselves.

Yeah, but having a flunky to do it for you might be a nice change. I like tweed. He can iron my newspaper for me too.

 

[fxdc]

I and others will never forget their 1st time shooting a USPSA match.

With mine it was in the 20's and there was 4 to 5 inches of snow on the ground.

Thankfully no low cover shooting, but since it was my 1st match I walked during movement from barricade to barricade. Others did the run, me Heil no!

And I was hooked, so there were plenty of matches shot in the snow. That was the IPSC life in and around the Reno / Carson City area. 32 degs for the high or less and a sunny day was typical.