Saturday, December 27, 2008
Written Dec 30:
The three of us head off for a full day of popping caps. My brother brought out his new toys to break in, sight in, and to tweak it down.
We arrive around 10 and begin on the pistol metal plates, there are 5 tables, we reach the area and take two tables. By the time we fully setup, all the tables were taken. All of a sudden a flood of people start arriving. I have not seen so many people at this range. Alot of people must have had firearms for christmas! We pop caps there until the quarter pounder hot dog lunch at noon. There also a boy scout troop learning shotgunning at the shotgun range. By the time we were done with lunch, the boy scouts come for theirs, which was a grand time for us to borrow their range for a bit.
Shotgunning was fun, my brother has never popped at clay targets and my FN SLP still ran even though it hasn't been cleaned in a year. By the time we go through a bit of clays and shells, people were waiting for us to move on. Which we did, to a 200 yard field. We put up our own 100 yard target for my brother and there was a 175 yard 8" plate out there for us to pick at already. So i expended all of my 30-06 onto it and the in-law's 308 into it a few times, while my brother is sighting in his AR.
One last range to go, which is the main rifle range. In the morning, the rifle range was all filled with rifle shooters. This range has a 100 yard target stands but with it comes various metal plates at various distances, the furthest at 500 yards.
With the .308 and a harris bipod, the 500 yard rams were cheesyeasy. Then i remembered my Springfield 1903 made in 1929, but no ammo! Doh!
Good times good times..
The three of us head off for a full day of popping caps. My brother brought out his new toys to break in, sight in, and to tweak it down.
We arrive around 10 and begin on the pistol metal plates, there are 5 tables, we reach the area and take two tables. By the time we fully setup, all the tables were taken. All of a sudden a flood of people start arriving. I have not seen so many people at this range. Alot of people must have had firearms for christmas! We pop caps there until the quarter pounder hot dog lunch at noon. There also a boy scout troop learning shotgunning at the shotgun range. By the time we were done with lunch, the boy scouts come for theirs, which was a grand time for us to borrow their range for a bit.
Shotgunning was fun, my brother has never popped at clay targets and my FN SLP still ran even though it hasn't been cleaned in a year. By the time we go through a bit of clays and shells, people were waiting for us to move on. Which we did, to a 200 yard field. We put up our own 100 yard target for my brother and there was a 175 yard 8" plate out there for us to pick at already. So i expended all of my 30-06 onto it and the in-law's 308 into it a few times, while my brother is sighting in his AR.
One last range to go, which is the main rifle range. In the morning, the rifle range was all filled with rifle shooters. This range has a 100 yard target stands but with it comes various metal plates at various distances, the furthest at 500 yards.
With the .308 and a harris bipod, the 500 yard rams were cheesyeasy. Then i remembered my Springfield 1903 made in 1929, but no ammo! Doh!
Good times good times..
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