Broke my first three clays and frightened several more. I had 11 clays and 25 rounds--brought home 5--of 12 ga 1-1/8 oz number 8 shot by Estate. 1200 fps. I shot a few into a puddle to see what it looked like, and I shot a couple more into a cardboard box to see how it patterned. My son was there to throw them. I used my single shot break action Pardner with the exposed hammer, and I had a lot of fun. Must repeat.
Our son had come up, as he is working up two different loads, one in .223 and one in .308, so he wanted this range and my chrony to get data. He'd brought some known-quantity rounds of each caliber as controls. He shoots really well. His .308 for this trip was a Tikka T3 bolt gun. It's true: One MOA out of the box with the known-quantity ammo at 100 meters. His .223 was a Savage bolt action. Of course he had several loads of each to run through, and that was cool. I used my high powered binocs to call his shots.
I only had a little work to do with the copper .22's, so I spent my shooting time with the 1911 and targets of opportunity while testing two ammos. Review viewtopic.php?f=5&t=52433 . I must say I'm liking the 1911 more and more. Who knew? I'll have to shoot the Vaquero next time also, to keep things in perspective.
The work I did was to test the CCI Copper-22 stuff I'd reviewed a couple months ago, but with a hand gun. Needed to do the rifle. Mixed results. At 25 yards it was pretty accurate, able to hit rocks and so on, but I could not get it on paper at 100 using ten rounds. I'll have to do another trip and move the target out by maybe 20 yard increments to see what happens.
Shooting stuff is fun. Grinned for a whole day Saturday.
CDFingers
Range Report 3/15/19
1Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandana
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack