What did you shoot today?

[Glenn E. Meyer]

Compact Carry Match - 3rd Gen G26, my EDC with Trijicon night sights. Only 2 Cs for the match, my usual slow times. Guns were mostly Glocks - 26s or various thinner ones, Sig 365s. One guy brought competition rig - even though that was not to be - but it's just fun, so he still could shoot. One guy with a thin Glock had a lot of jams. Said it was because the gun was too short and couldn't get a firm grip. But he shot quite well as far as hits. One guy had an optic on a 26 and lost the dot on a target and started waving the gun up and down. Nothing else particularly noteworthy. Noticed the geezer squad was limping around, no track meet for us.

[awp_101]

Put in 90 minutes at the range this morning. Everything shot at 7 yards today.

Last time I had the Supermatic Trophy out it started having failures to feed. 1968 production, unknown round count and maintenance schedule when I bought it and all I've done it oil it and wipe down the outside so I wasn't terribly surprised. Gave it a deep clean this morning but it didn't help. I think it's time for a new recoil spring, magazine or both.



74 rounds of my .38 Special loads through the backup RP 63. I was consistently high (not surprising at 7 yards) but not sure why I was shooting to the right. I need to take the primary RP63 out next time and see if it's me or the sights. My hands and wrists didn't like the cadence. I shot more rounds faster at a class a couple of months ago but it was generally shoot 6, maybe 12 then evaluate. This was a slower pace but one cylinder after another until I'd shot them all.



Why an odd number like 74? Because I had a CCI primer fail to go off after 3 hits. I'll keep it and call it my Creasy Special.



Another 30 through the EMP4. I'm liking it but it felt snappier this time. I think it was from wrist and hand fatigue. I'm thinking about trying some 124 in it to see if that dampens it a bit.

25 more through the DW .38 Super. Today was Armscor 125gr. Didn't feel as spicy as the Magtech +P from last week but it seems to like this load much better. Or I might have been on my game a little better. I've GOT to get my lightbox out and take some beauty pics of this thing.



Ended with 25 each through the SFT9 and SA-35. The SFT9 sights are easier for me to see (red FO front) so a FO front will be on my list of upgrades to the SA-35.

[backtrail540]

I got to put a box through a friends recently acquired Big Boy X in 357 with Ranger Point furniture. Factory 38's along with a slew of his 38 and 357 handloads. It was a novel and fun experience, my first with a levergun. I am probably just spoiled as a child of the ar15 generation because while it was quite fun I am glad it was not my money. Not to say it couldn't fill a nice practical niche but i didn't leave wanting one. Cool experience though.



I also ran a bill drill with my 686 SSR and had nearly a perfect robot time/splits aside from that damn .01 on split 4.

[CSW]

A coworker purchased an A300UP, so we went out for a day of shotguns. His didn't come with any chokes, instead, a smoothbore. Don't know what Beretta bores them to. His ran fine.
Another 50 rounds of #4 bird thru my grey UP, as well as fome flight control....zero issues. This darned shotgun just runs like a top! Even threw some clays, which I found difficult thru a ghost ring, but managed to bust several.

Brought my carry 1911, and my father's pre-model-ten 38 as well.

[BN]

I also ran a bill drill with my 686 SSR and had nearly a perfect robot time/splits aside from that damn .01 on split 4.

Awesome.

[Glenn E. Meyer]

Gen 4, G17 irons - mediocre results - annoyed with self. Spare the cognitive dissonance excuses. Bah. Still fun. Back to the SRO Gen 5 next time and then the 1911 for the BOOM.

Felt better with an after the match mushroom pizza and chocolate chip cookie.

[Coal Train]

Getting more serious about training after a couple years of banging steal and making noise. Unfortunately my shot timer has died so I just focused on accuracy. Shooting cardboard offered some good insight. Improvement happened and I had fun.

[Malamute]

Took the pup for short walk this afternoon and took a couple things along. I only shot the 22 Rolling Block, the breeze was cool enough to take some of the fun out of being out. I just shot 10-12 rds, but it worked every time, which is a huge improvement from its unfortunate experience at a so-called gunsmith some years ago. Anyway, it shoots gain, and Im happy.

It was something dad picked up in the 60s as basically a wall hanger, though we shot it a bit. the chamber was egged out from corrosive shorts fired in it and not cleaned and bore badly pitted. I later had it relined, trigger tuned a bit, and he bushed the firing pin. It shot outstandingly. I took it to get a tang sight installed, all it needed was one hole elongated so the screws lined up, and the guy decided to do a trigger job on it, and it hasnt shot since. In deciding to get another hammer and repair it I compared it to the hammers I saw online to be sure I got the correct one, then noticed one little quirk, and was able to fix it with a fine file in about 10 minutes.

Remington No 1 1/2, a very dainty little rifle, made somewhere in the 1870s to about 1897. The 24" barrel was very pleasant to shoot in the open with no ear plugs. Shorter barrels are usually more crack than I care for with regular high speed loads.

[CSW]

I have one of those, in 25/20

[revchuck38]

It was a significant day in the life of a geezer shooter. I burned through the last 42 rounds of full-power .44 Magnum ammo I had. I'm going to reload all my .44 Mag brass with mid-power loads.

I also shot my 4" Colt Official Police for the first time in several years. Damn, that thing's accurate! It felt kinda dry shooting it DA, I don't think the side plate has been off it since it was made. I'll lube it sometime in the near future.