what did you shoot today?

[snert]

I went on safari. My quarry? Spotted Latern fly. I carried my bright red and yellow A-Salt-gun with a full magazine of freshly loaded Morton fine xxx iodized, weight sorted high BC table salt. I wore my hunter orange shirt and my ballistic denim jeans, with my low tread Doc Martin loafers, for ease in stalking. I had scouted the terrain and noted a heavy concentration of the invasive metallic grey and bright red alien bug-eyed creatures infiltrating two trees near my porch (and recliner where I had been enjoying an adult beverage).
I grabbed a cylindrical canister full of reloads and sallied forth!

My intrepid bride remained on the porch with a smirk.

An hour later my arm hurt from cocking the A-Salt_Gun sliding breach. The ground was littered with the carcasses of (estimated) well over 100 of those B#$S!Ards and it appeared about 400 more remained in the tree, just out of range of my short barreled rifle. I reloaded the high capacity magazine 4 (FOUR!) times!

I am considering a long barreled custom compressor powered air A-salt-gun...

I determined that the pattern of the multi-shot projectile would reliably knock off two and three of the creepy critters in a shot if they remained within four feet of the barrel. Often a cuop de gra was required. Many of the longer shots resulted in sputtering fly-offs, but the cripples seemed to then, like some outer space automatron, start to crawl back toward the tree base (making it easy to retrieve and/or simply Doc Martin them.) A second round to the face became my standard practice. No unneccesary suffering and all...

I found myself cackling like a current drunken VP and having as much fun as Will Dabbs shooting water mocassins with a short barreled shotgun.

Sometimes you just have to let out your inner child.

 

[n.c.outlaw2024]

single-action in .45, cap-n-ball in .44, 30-30 lever rifle

 

[Steven B]

Renewed my membership at our local Indoor Range today and tested out my S&W 617 with Apex Hammer and C-More Railway sight on a 90° mount.

I was able to keep them all in the black but learned I really need to start working on upper body strength. I haven't shot my handguns in a while and could really tell. The gun just felt heavy.

Well, all that means is more practice. Today I fired 100 rounds of Remington Bucket Of Bullets. All fired with my light trigger pull of 7 pounds DA so I'm happy.

Steven

 

[426nut]

I tried out 4 different pellets in my old Webley hawke 3. She shoots best with a firm grip. E.

 

[Bill Norris]

Got my latest build (6BRX) from ODCR (Zack) out on the bench today for a load work up test. Tried Bart's 103 gr. with Varget and was very happy with the results even with me hanging a light over my target to be able to see it. 32.4 32.6 32.8 gr seated at .004 .006 .008 jam from just touch gave great groups. 32.8 seated at .008 is where I think I will load back. Numbers and group was looking good and M V just barely broke 3000 FPS. Time to screw the tuner on it and see how that looks.

 

[n.c.outlaw2024]

Pocket pistol...'wells Fargo" model in .31 & 1911 clone in .45 of course
I did better with the smaller caliber which fits my hand much more comfortably
Only issue was the caps for Wells Fargo were a pain at times.Got them sorted out I believe

 

[misser]

have been playing with a 6.5 Grendel 95gr from hornady . not to be a deer getting rifle ,could but there's no real need of it . the barrel tuner has done more good than any other thing in this endeavor to use 95gr'ers . using LVR powder . 21/64 '' group size

 

[Walt Krafft]

Putting up cedar siding and trim on the new carport. Will fire a couple of thousand shots from a Bostich finish nail gun. And do about a zillion steps up and down a ladder.

 

[KMart]

Shot my 308 @ 400 yards this morning. Attempting to proof/tune some loads that shot well a few days ago.
Got my moneys worth. Shot up pretty much the whole target.

 

[n.c.outlaw2024]

practicing with the mare's leg. plus my favorite side-arm. vest/pocket wells fargo in .31 calibre.
while i don't have a photo of the mare's leg i do have the wells fargo reproduction.

ps: apologies for the poor quality of the photo.

 

[Bill Norris]

Got my latest build (6BRX) from ODCR (Zack) out on the bench today for a load work up test. Tried Bart's 103 gr. with Varget and was very happy with the results even with me hanging a light over my target to be able to see it. 32.4 32.6 32.8 gr seated at .004 .006 .008 jam from just touch gave great groups. 32.8 seated at .008 is where I think I will load back. Numbers and group was looking good and M V just barely broke 3000 FPS. Time to screw the tuner on it and see how that looks.

Wanted to give Bart's 105 gr. Hammers a go today with the same load as above with the 103s. I loaded 10 and it looked so good at 5 shots I decided to stay in that same hole. 10 shots measured .223 after caliber deduction. M V was at 2969 FPS. Just 107 rds. down the tube and still have not screwed the tuner on it yet. Wanted to see raw accuracy first. This is what we have come to expect from an ODCR rifle build time and time again. And Bart's bullets as we all already know are no slouch by no means.

 

[dryhumor]

Recently did a little trading with a friend of mine. It seems I needed a .22 for the tree rats around the house. First chance to shoot it this morning. Iron sights and old eyes… Old school Winchester model 67. The subsonic was pleasant to shoot without hearing protection, and seems to be pretty accurate.

 

[snert]

Recently did a little trading with a friend of mine. It seems I needed a .22 for the tree rats around the house. First chance to shoot it this morning. Iron sights and old eyes… Old school Winchester model 67. The subsonic was pleasant to shoot without hearing protection, and seems to be pretty accurate.
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I have two...one was my first real rifle and the other is a replacement after my dad gave away mine while I was in college. I recently got it back. Great little rifle!

 

[Big_Daddy]

I shot a shotgun "Money Shoot" out at our Club today.
This was my first one...Won one of the games!.....$$$$$$

Great fun shooting from the 38 yard line and breaking birds out at 80 to 100 yards.

Great group of guys and gals plus a whole lot of fun.

Down to the final 4 in this game.

 

[ISS]

Nostalgic tour this afternoon.

I took my Custom Borchardt factory double set trigger-ed 25-35 Win out today. It has a Unertl 8X varmint scope on it. 75gr Sierra's at about 3200fps, good for about 1.3" for five at 200 yards. This baby was absolute state of the art before WWII started. Even in 2024 this dog will hunt...

ISS

 

[SecretCode]

Not today but yesterday. Had family visiting from out of state and all got together at my sister and brother in law's.

He was gifted a Dan Wesson (Super Max?) from and old retired coworker earlier this year. We pulled it out and played a bit with it. My son got to shoot some 38 Special from it.

He also shot some .22 pistol and rifle.

 

[n.c.outlaw2024]

remington 1858 reproduction, richards-mason conversion

 

[dryhumor]

Pulled one out of the back of the safe… Beautiful morning for fire forming/ load development. Model 70 push feed, Kreiger HV, Serengeti chamber, 30-06.

 

[n.c.outlaw2024]

Vintage black powder revolvers and a b.b. rife w/scope @ plastic cola bottles & aluminum cans.

 

[snert]

I shot my most accurate squirrel rifle today at 25 yards, to check zero. The fifth round failed to feed so I single fed it. Of course it went out of the group, but I feel good about it. 541T with Leupold 6.5-20 EFR



Then I decided to sight in my very first 22, a Winchester 67 given to me about 1971-73 by my grandpa. I had it until my dad traded it off to a relative for a Stevens 414 while I was in college. I got it back about 9 months ago, cleaned it up and had not shot it yet.
Using a Slingshot rest and my standard issue 60 year old Model 1 eyeballs, sans glasses, I shot the center group, bottom row at 25 yards. I was worried when I did not see anything for the first three shots. Then 7 oclock happened and I knew the old girl was still sighted in, and my eyes were still working. #5 went at 11 oclock, but since the orange dots are a little smaller than a quarter, but bigger than a nickel, I thought Mr. Squirrel might be in for a problem.
Feeling my oats I stood up on my own two feet and shot the lower remaining four targets. L-R. Then I shot L-R on the row above it. As you can see I started to cramp (low back surgery) but pulled it together near the end of the row. Not bad for a rifle I have not shot in nearly 40 years.
It felt incredible to feel the rifle in my hands just as I remembered it, and to have it perform as good or better than it did when my eyes were not blurry. What I couldn't see I felt like I made up in experience. It was a glorious time today.
Oh, the ammo was Eley HP Subsonic for the squirrel rifle, and Club for the old 67. It has never been fed anything like that before! Most of the ammo that went thru it had "special lint" from my pocket when I was a kid!