What did you shoot today?

I went to my local range and shot four guns. 25 rounds through my Ruger American Predator 223, working on finalizing a load. Had fair results, so am going to load 10 each of the two best and see if they hold up. I also checked the zero on my 10/22, and shot some groups with it. It's not a great shooter. OK but not great, or even good. Remington golden bullet HPs shot pretty good, some old Federal Lightening was terrible and Eley team was pretty good, but is SV and I just wanted to see how the rifle would group it. The rifle gets used for ground squirrels in the sping and that's it, so the Remingtons are it.
Then I ran 6 clips offhand through one of my Garands, and 10 magazines through my Ruger 45ACP. They both shoot pretty good. I was using 150gr FMJBT handloads in the M1 and 200gr LSWC and 230gr Ball through the pistol. It was fun.

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Just before dusk I had enough time to fire 35 rounds through my Kimber Rapide at our deer camp range.
I was Up North clearing a trail, it was with me all day. (lots of wolves around, now we have them big CATS!)

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Some loads with 6.0 grains of CFE Pistol, some with 6.3 grains, my favorite load. Both pushing a 230 grain bullet touched off by some old Staynless No. 7-111 primers.
 
I already posted in another thread, but I did get outside for a few rounds out of a couple of my favorite revolvers.
So satisfying seeing a bullet hole appear on the target behind the sights.
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I'm so happy with this El Patron. It is quite a shooter.
This 3" m&p is a definite favorite, and so easy to shoot.

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....and a glimpse of an old turkey.....
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7mm PRC. Hornady 180 grain ELD Match. Three five-shot groups averaged 0.794, best was 0.464. Finished the box ringing steel at 200. Think it's starting to shoot in.

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Friday my BIL, sister, my son and daughter went up the hill from Dads house and shot the BIL’s new S&W M&P AR, along with a few of my Glocks and the Ruger PC.

When we got to our favorite shooting spot, we had to wait for a small herd of wild horses nearby to crest the hill behind us so we could shoot safely.

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Once they were up and over the big hill to our right, we set up at the base to the left of where they went.

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My uncle also asked me to take out his rarely used Interarms marked stainless PPK in .380 to be sure it still fired. The gun, one of the Ranger-manufactured models made around 1980-ish, has had maybe 3/4 of a box of .380 FMJ through it, so naturally it fired just fine using Ammo, Inc. 100 gr FMJ. (Son shooting the PPK) It was 40 deg outside with a breeze, it got cold quickly.

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Good time breaking in the new AR and letting others try out a variety of Glocks. The sis liked the grip feel of the 43X, they may just pick a 43X or a 48 up soon. :thumbup:

Stay safe.
 
Tricked my wife into going to the range with me. She gets bored quickly on the rifle range, as it's generally slower paced and much louder, so we went to the pistol range after 14 rounds of test loads in my Marlin 336. She tried a Blackhawk 357, Canik 9mm, Heritage 22, and S&W 22. As do I, she preferred the S&W Victory 22. The single actions were awkward for her. Shes not a fan of the 9mm. It's a larger pistol and has snappier recoil than the 22's or the heavy Blackhawk with reduced 125-grain target loads. She still shot it pretty well, and it demonstrates the advantage of a red dot sight for even a new shooter. Both the S&W and Canik have RDS.
 
My "Aussie L1A1 on Imbel" was shipped to me Today, from the best FAL gun smith in the US: Mark Graham of ARS / Arizona Response Systems. He originally was an Army Ranger.
He very precisely enlarged the gas port and removed burrs from the gas tube or replaced it. The old tube's condition had prevented normal gas functions: extraction, ejection.

This rifle was missing the barrel washer! Naturally he installed the correct Inch-pattern washer and then aligned the barrel (= sights also), head spaced the gun.
Mr. Graham even sent his test target in the shipping box, the way German handgun manufacturers have done so.

Mine is a clone of this Google image, except that it has a wooden carry handle.

Shot just 40 rds. of new-production Swiss-made ammo; this means what it says -- not outsourced. The Swiss "CH" ammo , national abbreviation: Latin, was the lowest-priced [strange?] -- months ago -- on Ammoseek.



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AMraider said:
1941 VKT M39 using 1955 Romanian Surplus ammo at 50 yards. Disregard the .22 holes as I repurpose targets. I'm "thrifty" like that!
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What a great looking stock. At one time I had 10 M39s and 4 were Finish. They are fantastic guns. I gave most to my son and sold the rest when I had to get rid of all my weapons. ( Long Story ) Don't get old, they don't allow guns in retirement homes.
 
AzShooter1: My late in-laws were at the superb retirement complex A.R.C. in San Antonio, several miles west of Randolph AFB.

Guns must be one of the main prohibitions. Would be a heck of a shame to get kicked out of a nice home, with every level of personal care available.
My late father-in-law wasn't interested in guns, although he had gone into Hermann Goering's house in 1945 :cool: and liberated a few handguns ! Ironic.

He was a Quartermaster attached to the 101st (John chose to be attached, from early '44), and there was no info, known provenance for those guns, all of which he gave away to people in exchange for favors when back in the US.
 
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