Who's going shooting today?

[Jay Walk]

Just curious who on here is actually going to go blast a few rounds.

Happy Sunday.

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[fredball]

I could be talked into it where you thinking of going ?

 

[cosmos mariner]

I had hoped to, but since it's going to be close to triple digits today, I got outvoted and will be taking the family bowling. Hitting pins one way or another I guess.

 

[oremike]

I'll be shooting at Bowling Pins with my .22 rifle at 50 yards. I hope to be able to knock a few off of the table with my $200.00 Savage topped with a $200.00 Bushnell scope .

 

[tac]

Just finished cleaning up my .577 Snider Short rifle, originally from the Quebec Garrison Artillery Battery located in the Citadel, Quebec. It was a birthday present a few years back form a good friend and fellow shooter who decamped to France after getting the bum's rush from his parent company, Audi VAG [UK].

I got a new 430gr semi-conical bullet mould/mold from fellow Snider and Martini-Herny shooter, Martyn Robinson, based in Spokane WA. Cast up a hundred or so last Thursday and made around thirty up to shoot yesterday afternoon - 62.5gr of Swiss 1.5 Fg, a card wad, some corn meal filler and then the bullet, just pushed in to the case and held there with the gloop lubricant. Groups were all in my imagination - about 4" for twenty shots at 50m, so there is obviously room for improvement.



Rifle is described as a five-groove, two-band, Short Rifle, Snider, and uses the breech-loading conversion invented by the American, Jacob Snider. His conversion was adopted over the French Tabatiére, which was much the same but more expensive.....

Snider's conversion cost 3 pennies less than Tabatiere's...

This gives you some idea what we are talking about, ammunition-wise - here are the four calibres once in use by the British military, and for a short time, somewhere, all four were in use on the same day somewhere in the Empire.



Left to right - .577 Henry-Boxer Snider - actually .600".

Original coiled brass foil .577-450 Martini-Henry - as used at Isandhwlana and Rorke's drift.

Improved drawn-brass version of .577-450 M-H.

Later version of .303 British with spitzer point.

 

[Throckmorton]

I'll beshooting the ol' 1911 at the range in Florence,might try bad guy silhouette target at 30 yds...the max length I can go to the berm.
..btw open invite to come shoot atthe range when u r in town,30-300 yd ranges

 

[Mikej]

I'll beshooting the ol' 1911 at the range in Florence,might try bad guy silhouette target at 30 yds...the max length I can go to the berm.
..btw open invite to come shoot atthe range when u r in town,30-300 yd ranges

I'll take you up on that. In a few weeks.

 

[ktgee]

Just put together a new 22lr upper on my AR and install flip up sights. Going to take it out and test it in a indoor range.

 

[P7M13]

Great idea - thanks for asking!

 

[Caveman Jim]

I think I'll have a Coke… No one to go with today.

 

[kmk1012]

Only shooting the water cannons today! Wife and kids love the water and who am I to argue?

 

[Jay Walk]

I went to the local indoor range this morning and shot the ruger sr-22 and Smith sd-40. had the place to myself until right before I left.

 

[rhollister71]

Wanted to but 100 out there no thanks.

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

I did had to re-zero after changing out some scopes and boy it was a successful day ! I had a Tikka 338 WM would group minute of elk removed the Zeiss that was on it and put on a Vortex and now we are lights out . I learned you don't need a 1k scope when a $200 scope will do the job lol !

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

Tomorrow I am working on the 25-06 after a scope and mount swap the factory base was a big pos !

 

[CountryGent]

Briefly fired a couple magazines to test something. Far too tired and outside to hot to muster much else.

 

[Dr Prepper]

Yeah I went last weekend when it was like 93-96F, it wasn't exactly fun. But ya gotta do what you gotta do.. Glad its done.

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

I did some training in White Sands NM and this is nuffin !

 

[Dr Prepper]

Yeah this WAS nothing.. I've worked through a lot worse. Doing asphalt is fun.. And asphalt was nothing compared to other jobs I've had.

Rehabbing thinly insulated and janky working A/C'd mobile homes in AZ is fun too!

Oh and the tarmac of Everett flight line baking away inside airplane fuselages..

There's reasons why I hate the heat and generally like the northwest weather.

But then there's always lemonade..

 

[oremike]

I shot the 22 pin match today, got 51 out of 60 pins off the table. It was hot but still a fun thing to do for a change.