They suck.Originally Posted by mmc45414
I keep meaning to get chains but just never think about it when im driving around.
They suck.
I keep meaning to get chains but just never think about it when im driving around.
They probably provide better tone than the chains. I always found the chains attenuated the “ding” a bit.
Working diligently to enlarge my group size.
At one point I had things tightened up and damn if you couldn't hear the ring (half the fun!!). Loose bolts (lock nuts or thread locker) or cold shuts work great.
My EDC gun: G5 G19 MOS, RMR07, TLR7-A, and Overwatch Precision TAC trigger. Re-zero'd the RMR this morning after battery replacement, then did some accuracy work and a bit of holster/speed stuff. Slowly working towards a 100 freestyle at 25 yards.
Got the new-to-me handguns out to the range. Every bit as fun as I expected. Ruger Blackhawk .45 Convertible and SA 9mm Range Officer Operator.
Pulled this out of the safe. After having the plunger tube re-staked I ran about 150 rounds of 230 ball through it.
The takeaways:
45 is fun to shoot
I wish it were cheaper
Front sight is a bit too wide for my liking
The looks you get running 10 round strings with it are priceless.
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Shot a local match with P30v1, centerfire open class.
S1: 20 ft 20 rds in 40 seconds
S2: 30 ft 5 rds each on 3 bulls 30 seconds
S3: 50 ft 5 rds each on 3 bulls 40 seconds
S1: 198-14×
S2: 46-2x, 47-2x, 46
S3" 42, 45, 45-1x
Total : 469/500-19x
Dang those bulls are small
Hopefully good enough for 1st or 2nd place.... Really should have done better, we'll see how the standings shake out.
Last edited by CCT125US; 01-28-2020 at 11:08 PM.
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Hell. Yeah.
Pulled this out of the safe.....
Jojo's for the win.
Finally managed to take my new revolver out to the range during some actual day light. So, naturally, had to take a tail gate shot:
With the help of day light and actually seeing well what I was doing with the gun, I finally figured out what my issue with the sights was: none, the gun just shoots really, really high with 158gr Magnums. Hrmph. More disturbingly, I had a single instance of a failure to fire. I've been wondering during dry fire if everything is okay with this gun, as just a couple of times (out of easily several hundred) a trigger pull seemed to be a little... off. I'll have to disassemble it and see what's up with the innards of this gun. Hopefully it'll end up being just really dirty inside, or something simple like that.
I got back out the range with my new Ruger 22/45 after removing the LCI, the mag safety and the spring and detent in the bolt hold open lever. At some point I will drill it for a spring to hold the BHO down but for now gravity works to allow it to drop when racking the bolt on mag changes.
The trigger reach is a little too short for my big hands, but burying the finger to contact the trigger just outside of the 2nd knuckle seems to work well.
I picked up a case of Armscor 36gr HP 22 with nickel plated brass and was curious how it would run. I've shot plenty of the non-nickle plated Armscor and it has a tendency to not run in fully loaded Ruger 10/22 25 round mags. This afternoon I found out that I can load 15 rounds in a mag and it will run all day. 20 rounds and up will have stoppages almost every round. I can see that the bullet is hitting the ramp on the mag and not feeding. At 15 rounds, the bullets angle up enough to feed correctly.
Incidentally, Mini-Mags run all day long with 25 rounds in the mag. Not sure if there are rim diameter differences or the Mini-Mags have enough power to run the bolt harder.
The Armscor ran in the pistols just fine. i know it's accurate enough in my Henry to still ring 10" steel at 100 yards every time with a bipod.
No red dot on the pistol today but I was able to tweak the sights to get it hitting 6" steel at 20 yards. I made sure to put a screwdriver in the bag that is actually small enough for the Ruger sights.
I got out the 7" 10/22 and tried a few mags dual wielding both pistols Gunfighter style. Got some hits on 10" steel at 20 yards but not as many as I should have. Good 22 pistols are fun no matter what you do with them.
I finished up with a mag of carry ammo from the G-19 on the 10" steel. It was great until the crappy cable clamp finally gave way and the steel fell to the ground.
In keeping with the hanging steel discussion, I have always looped cable through holes drilled in the base, then use cable clamps to hold the loops. They always got shot up. As per the pic below, I now pull the cable through the holes and loop it back and clamp it behind the steel. Now the clamps and cable loops are protected by the steel target. We will see how long this lasts. The cables can still get shot but they are a smaller target than the 2 sets of clamps that I used to have on every loop. I slathered the rusty steel, the cable clamps and the C clamps with Corrosion-X to minimize the rust they get from sitting in the truck bed all the time.
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