Sunday, June 07, 2009
Stage 1, "Hang in there" Richmond Rod and Gun..
Finally decided to go pewpewpew. It's been since Jan 2008 since i've last done so.
The Weather was pretty clear and sunny in the mid-upper 70's. I met up with a few coworkers who have started shooting for a while. It used to be just me, Ed and Sugui. Now it's a few more regulars. Finally! One thing i've learned shooting ipsc, is that you need to bring food. A few years ago, there were about 30-50 shooters, now it's 50-80. Today was a decent 50+, therefore we'll be there until 2pm, at least.
I'm in the goober squad, which is a pack of 12 or so who've known each other here and there. With that rabble rousing comes at a quick pace. It's going to be a good day.
Mostly i shot pretty well considering that it's been a while running and pulling triggers. But since last year i've changed the front sight height as well as added the tungsten guide rail and now the Para shootings mostly where i want it to. Not exactly, just mostly.
The Good:
-Gun went bang
-Bullets mainly hit where they were supposed to go
-I did not have any 'no shoot' targets (those are bad point deductions)
-I had brought food and had barely enough water.
The Bad:
-We started at 10am, and did not finish until 3pm.
-Total trigger time: under 4 minutes. But it went ok since i was in the goober squad and the razzing neverended.
-My 3-year membership is almost up.. time flies eh?
Labels: IPSC, Para, shooting sportz
Saturday, January 24, 2009
4:50pm
Headed out to Chabot today to pop a few caps with my brother and his possee. A Coworker called saying that he was going to shoot the high power rifle there at 11am, since i'm there i might as well do it. I've never shot high power at chabot before. We arrive around 9am to a mist of fog and quietness. When signing up the rangemaster tells us that if he can't see the 100 yard dirt berm, theres no shooting to be had. Lo n behold 10minutes later things clear up.
1)My M1 Garand is sighted in for 100 yards finally, and best 3-shot group was an inch! Too bad many jams, op-rod popping out, failure to feed keeps this rifle on the back burner. Unless i'm shooting an Alies vs. Axis match. It needs more grease the range guy said. How much grease does this thing need??
2)The Marlin 1894 .44mag lever action is sighted in a few inches low at 100. I thought they would be higher, but then it is a reduced load. At least it is a flat shooter.
3)The Para and Glock 21 are point shooters at 15 yards. Center hold to punch out X's.
4)I'm getting low on ammo! Yikes!
Around 11am i get a text message from that co-worker saying that he couldn't make it. Doh! I head to the 200 yard shack and find out they are delayed because of the fog and the 11am relay may start around noon. They didn't until 12:45pm. I had all the gear there and still did not feel the motivation to shoot it. I don't know why, i'm guessing it's lonely shooting it by yourself. Does that make me a social shooter?
Labels: shooting sportz
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..
Labels: shooting sportz
Friday, December 26, 2008
Written On Dec 30
We went shooting a bit late, reaching the 5dogs range around noon. Shot a bit and got the boot at sunset. Man there was quite a bit of peoples there.
My brother and Jenny is arriving tonight!
We went shooting a bit late, reaching the 5dogs range around noon. Shot a bit and got the boot at sunset. Man there was quite a bit of peoples there.
My brother and Jenny is arriving tonight!
Labels: shooting sportz
Monday, December 22, 2008
Written On: Dec 30
Woke up early to call for a delay of delivery of a UPS package. My Project DSLR has been shipped but it was shipped too fast. I estimated it would arrive the following week, but they went for a 3-day select. Calling them i could have had the package rerouted, but i knew crazy complications would have happened. This is the busy season and things will happen, with out luck. So i had them hold it for a week, it was like pulling teeth. I called when the package first left, UPS told me that they couldn't do any rerouting or delaying until the package arrived, which is today. I call today and at first they told me that they couldn't do anything until first attempt. The only problem is, sometimes they leave the package at first attempt, and i wouldn't be there for a week. So they say they will try and call me back, which they did and it is not being held. Whats so hard about delaying a package? Isn't that what computers are for? On the UPS site i could register to modify my packages but i couldn't since you needed a shipping ID. Man!
After all that, i headed to the range and went at it with my 1903, in the rain. It wasn't that bad a rain, a drizzle to a light flow, but it got things wet. I think there were only 3 of us shooting. I shot some research bullets and found a decent load, i think.
After 1pm, the clouds blew over and the bright sky was upon us. We went pistoling and all was good.
Woke up early to call for a delay of delivery of a UPS package. My Project DSLR has been shipped but it was shipped too fast. I estimated it would arrive the following week, but they went for a 3-day select. Calling them i could have had the package rerouted, but i knew crazy complications would have happened. This is the busy season and things will happen, with out luck. So i had them hold it for a week, it was like pulling teeth. I called when the package first left, UPS told me that they couldn't do any rerouting or delaying until the package arrived, which is today. I call today and at first they told me that they couldn't do anything until first attempt. The only problem is, sometimes they leave the package at first attempt, and i wouldn't be there for a week. So they say they will try and call me back, which they did and it is not being held. Whats so hard about delaying a package? Isn't that what computers are for? On the UPS site i could register to modify my packages but i couldn't since you needed a shipping ID. Man!
After all that, i headed to the range and went at it with my 1903, in the rain. It wasn't that bad a rain, a drizzle to a light flow, but it got things wet. I think there were only 3 of us shooting. I shot some research bullets and found a decent load, i think.
After 1pm, the clouds blew over and the bright sky was upon us. We went pistoling and all was good.
Labels: Geek Stuff, shooting sportz
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Yesterday, 11 peoples (including me) pumped off 15000 rounds of 68 caliber jello balls, at each other of course, for my buddy Altons Bachelor Party. Sunol Paintball was alright. It has 3 speedball style fields, from small, where you can shoot to the other end, to medium, maybe 150yards at most. With such short fields comes quick games and quick teamwork. My brother and i were in our usual advantage camo, which had little advantage since it's a wide open field with white gooey'd walls and giant wire spools. We had a good time, everybody got pumped fairly well.
My favorite was one episode of capture the flag. It's situated in the middle of the map, take it and bring it home. We lost the first time, so we devised a brilliant plan. I go gearless and weaponless, sprint to the flag, grab it, and run back. That episode was over in 30seconds. When the other team got into their tactical positions, they heard 'game over'. Thats how you capture a flag.
Sunol Paintball offers pick up games and they're fairly nice doods, it needs more variety of games and fields. 9am-3pm
After that, headed to Alameda to the Sushi House. This place is pretty cool, ultra value for the quailty. You get a load of good food for what you paid. I had a Chirashi Bowl ($17), Various Sashimi on a bed of Sushi rice. My brother had the deluxe version ($24), it came with even more wierdo rawness.. They were prety tasty and crazy filling. The Bachelor had a Bento Box ($17), which i called more like a bento tray or bento crate! That'll fill 2 peoples tummies. The only dissapointment that i saw was this guys order a roll called Hella Hot, but hella hot it was not. =( A handfull of Wasabi Peas can outdo hella hot.
Wedding is next week, doodoo!
Today:
- Checked out the two paintball marks on my right arm, it's not bad, not that welty looking.
- Moved the router from the kiddo's room to the garage. That involved installing another phone line, and banging nails into the walls to mount the dsl modem, router and surge protector.
- Cleaned my paintball gear + gun, and decided to do a minor trigger job on it, man once i learned how to do it once, it's like what else can i grind?
- Went to staples (turn in some ink cartridges for 3$, target for a heater, curtain rod, babies R' us for some vitamins. funfunfun!
- Replaced stupid cheap wooden curtain rod broke in the boys room. Its screwed together by a bolt, once it breaks, you can't put it back unless you used glue or something.
beh, back to work.. ugh..
My favorite was one episode of capture the flag. It's situated in the middle of the map, take it and bring it home. We lost the first time, so we devised a brilliant plan. I go gearless and weaponless, sprint to the flag, grab it, and run back. That episode was over in 30seconds. When the other team got into their tactical positions, they heard 'game over'. Thats how you capture a flag.
Sunol Paintball offers pick up games and they're fairly nice doods, it needs more variety of games and fields. 9am-3pm
After that, headed to Alameda to the Sushi House. This place is pretty cool, ultra value for the quailty. You get a load of good food for what you paid. I had a Chirashi Bowl ($17), Various Sashimi on a bed of Sushi rice. My brother had the deluxe version ($24), it came with even more wierdo rawness.. They were prety tasty and crazy filling. The Bachelor had a Bento Box ($17), which i called more like a bento tray or bento crate! That'll fill 2 peoples tummies. The only dissapointment that i saw was this guys order a roll called Hella Hot, but hella hot it was not. =( A handfull of Wasabi Peas can outdo hella hot.
Wedding is next week, doodoo!
Today:
- Checked out the two paintball marks on my right arm, it's not bad, not that welty looking.
- Moved the router from the kiddo's room to the garage. That involved installing another phone line, and banging nails into the walls to mount the dsl modem, router and surge protector.
- Cleaned my paintball gear + gun, and decided to do a minor trigger job on it, man once i learned how to do it once, it's like what else can i grind?
- Went to staples (turn in some ink cartridges for 3$, target for a heater, curtain rod, babies R' us for some vitamins. funfunfun!
- Replaced stupid cheap wooden curtain rod broke in the boys room. Its screwed together by a bolt, once it breaks, you can't put it back unless you used glue or something.
beh, back to work.. ugh..
Labels: Crew, Gun Stuff, house, shooting sportz
Friday, October 03, 2008
Level Of Difficulty at Work: 0 out of 10 (Snapping caps day)
Time During Lunch: None, took half day off
The course changed a little, scored 100%. The staff gave me ideas of putting an eotech on a Springfield trapdoor rifle, tactical civil war class matches anyone?
Got home and fluffielady visited the doctors for the weekly checkup, things are going well. The kiddo is putting along. Since it was her birthday yesterday, we floated to Dave and Busters. Shes never been to either the great mall of milpitas as well as D&B. She had bit of fun playing skee-ball, but walking the mall was a bit of effort.
Ambercrombie Outlet, XL Shorts.. A bit undersized..
i'm getting ready to exercise for the year tommorrow.
Oi, i just found out the stupid bailout bill passed, i don't dig when law has to be made to control something. Usually when law enters a field, that field gets ruined, it's the touch of death. So why am i negative on this area. Well one of the many add-ons to entice that extra vote, maybe something like, Modifying Excise tax on Wooden Arrows for Children? would you now vote for it? Someone put it there, and someone voted. Isn't government great? Makes you wonder what hidden crap comes with passed laws.
Time During Lunch: None, took half day off
The course changed a little, scored 100%. The staff gave me ideas of putting an eotech on a Springfield trapdoor rifle, tactical civil war class matches anyone?
Got home and fluffielady visited the doctors for the weekly checkup, things are going well. The kiddo is putting along. Since it was her birthday yesterday, we floated to Dave and Busters. Shes never been to either the great mall of milpitas as well as D&B. She had bit of fun playing skee-ball, but walking the mall was a bit of effort.
Ambercrombie Outlet, XL Shorts.. A bit undersized..
i'm getting ready to exercise for the year tommorrow.
Oi, i just found out the stupid bailout bill passed, i don't dig when law has to be made to control something. Usually when law enters a field, that field gets ruined, it's the touch of death. So why am i negative on this area. Well one of the many add-ons to entice that extra vote, maybe something like, Modifying Excise tax on Wooden Arrows for Children? would you now vote for it? Someone put it there, and someone voted. Isn't government great? Makes you wonder what hidden crap comes with passed laws.
Labels: shooting sportz
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Quite a busy day today.
7:15am: Woke up to get ready for the NCAPOA pistol match.
8:30-10:15am: I did alright, screwed up a little on the hard sections. Some shots hitting low and out of the 2-point ring. Bah! The last two sequences were the hardest, single handed shooting with reloading and in a short time. Float home and changed to then float to:
11:30am:
Hanging in a suit, at the USS Hornet at the Alameda Naval Base.
It was a JROTC reunion with peoples from the class of 1935 to 2012. Wow 2012, talk about nooblets. Theres some history in this luncheon though. Saw some peoples, it was kinda cool, a little long, but kinda cool.
6:30pm-9pm: some of the crew came over and decorated the house.. Theres gonna be a party happening tommorrows! woowoo!
7:15am: Woke up to get ready for the NCAPOA pistol match.
8:30-10:15am: I did alright, screwed up a little on the hard sections. Some shots hitting low and out of the 2-point ring. Bah! The last two sequences were the hardest, single handed shooting with reloading and in a short time. Float home and changed to then float to:
11:30am:
Hanging in a suit, at the USS Hornet at the Alameda Naval Base.
It was a JROTC reunion with peoples from the class of 1935 to 2012. Wow 2012, talk about nooblets. Theres some history in this luncheon though. Saw some peoples, it was kinda cool, a little long, but kinda cool.
6:30pm-9pm: some of the crew came over and decorated the house.. Theres gonna be a party happening tommorrows! woowoo!
Labels: Crew, hanging, shooting sportz
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Shot a bit with the para. I think i need to replace the front sight blade with a taller one, the tungsten rod has some minimal recoil reduction. This is gonna be fun, time for some ghetto mod front sight hammering!
After the snapping caps, went to hang out with a coworker for some jewelry action. It was cool, got to hang out with 3 2-year olds running like banshees. Looks like its gonna be fun *sigh*. While over there i tried:
Macallan 12 Year and Glenlivet 12 Year: Both of these had similar taste, both tasted like blended scotch but there were some minute differences. The Glenlivet has less body, only slightly less. Both have that vague slight flavors, the Macallan was a touch more smokey.
After the snapping caps, went to hang out with a coworker for some jewelry action. It was cool, got to hang out with 3 2-year olds running like banshees. Looks like its gonna be fun *sigh*. While over there i tried:
Macallan 12 Year and Glenlivet 12 Year: Both of these had similar taste, both tasted like blended scotch but there were some minute differences. The Glenlivet has less body, only slightly less. Both have that vague slight flavors, the Macallan was a touch more smokey.
Labels: drank, shooting sportz
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Man it's nice outside today. Zero wind and all sun and blue sky. Headed out to pop some caps. Normally i stay till around noon, then head off to eat or whatever, but I ended up doing a few practice (thats what i call it) bulls eye shoots. Two handed, twice with the 686 and once with the Glock17 with 8lb trigger. Real Bullseye is 1-handed, maybe next time. I also need to try some handloads on it as well. 25-yards is good to see how your skillz are.
1st time 279-4x, used Federal Match 148gr wadcutters, group was low and to the right 4 o'clock, i had to aim a touch high at 6 o'clock
2nd time 281-5x, used Federal Premium 147 hydra-shock +P+, 6 o'clock hold, group was slightly low at 6 o'clock.
3rd time 259-3x, using Federal 147gr HST 9mm ammo, group was to the right around 3o'clock. Not bad for a POS plastic sights bulging.
Left the range around 2pm and headed to the shack, since i need lunch for today and for tommorrows little exercise. The line was at the door!
Since i labored so long n what not i decided to pull out some good old stuff:
Vintage!!
Looks like its straight out of the cellars next to the Chateau La'Tour 1906 Bordeaux Red wine doesn't it? It's not as old, only from the late 90's in my Fresno Days, probably in '97 from Costo, 12$ for a 24-pack case. Yep i still have a half dozen or so still, i found them in my garage a year ago and i decided to crack them open here n there. It tastes the same but 'smoother.' Kinda like my Emergency Cokes in Delilah, they taste like Mexican Coke, Mmmm smooth pure cane sugar!
Oh i forgot to mention that the outdoor that i post pics of here n there somehow broke / twisted / hyperextended his right leg. At first i thought he broke it, but after a few days, he gently puts weight on the foot when he wlaks, yet when he runs, he runs on 3's. Poor fuzzy kitty. There doesn't seem to be anything stuck on his paws and he can move it, as well as his shoulder, so it might be his elbow to forearm area thats messed up.
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Now playing: Leo King - Prelude #1
via FoxyTunes
1st time 279-4x, used Federal Match 148gr wadcutters, group was low and to the right 4 o'clock, i had to aim a touch high at 6 o'clock
2nd time 281-5x, used Federal Premium 147 hydra-shock +P+, 6 o'clock hold, group was slightly low at 6 o'clock.
3rd time 259-3x, using Federal 147gr HST 9mm ammo, group was to the right around 3o'clock. Not bad for a POS plastic sights bulging.
Left the range around 2pm and headed to the shack, since i need lunch for today and for tommorrows little exercise. The line was at the door!
Since i labored so long n what not i decided to pull out some good old stuff:
Vintage!!
Looks like its straight out of the cellars next to the Chateau La'Tour 1906 Bordeaux Red wine doesn't it? It's not as old, only from the late 90's in my Fresno Days, probably in '97 from Costo, 12$ for a 24-pack case. Yep i still have a half dozen or so still, i found them in my garage a year ago and i decided to crack them open here n there. It tastes the same but 'smoother.' Kinda like my Emergency Cokes in Delilah, they taste like Mexican Coke, Mmmm smooth pure cane sugar!
Oh i forgot to mention that the outdoor that i post pics of here n there somehow broke / twisted / hyperextended his right leg. At first i thought he broke it, but after a few days, he gently puts weight on the foot when he wlaks, yet when he runs, he runs on 3's. Poor fuzzy kitty. There doesn't seem to be anything stuck on his paws and he can move it, as well as his shoulder, so it might be his elbow to forearm area thats messed up.
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Now playing: Leo King - Prelude #1
via FoxyTunes
Labels: 686, drank, shooting sportz
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Today was quite busy. Woke up at 7am, did some photoshopping of a photo fluffielady wanted. I was kinda ghetto done but it can pass sorta. For 15minutes of work, it'll pass.
-Went to the range for some pop pop around 9:15 to 11am. My shotgun split times are still around .18-.2 seconds. Beh, it's cool for hitting a target. My goal was to leave around 10:30-10:40. But 2 coworkers were having target hitting issues. One was squeezing all his fingers when firing (hits low and left) and the other released his finger too fast after the shot broke (hits to the low and right).
-Got home at 11:15, got ready for bri n kimz baby showa.
-11:40am picked up a package for fluffielady.
-12:10pm arrived at foster city, let the games begin. Kim is showing quite a bit now. Chucky is putting himself in a partial police academy. J, Sherwin, Bert, came with the addition of Roz, Robyn n Jivis busting a cameo. Jivis is still all knocked out throughout.
-3:30pm began work on Bri's moto, it WAS supposed to be an easy task. Oil and filter change. But the battery was dead, ok replaced it, easy. Bike doesn't start up. It's fuel injected so it's supposed to be all auto done. Manual advised against push starting, or any kinda unscrupulous methods for carburetor'd motors. We proceed to install some flush mounted turn signals. Fricking body panels are a jigsaw , requiring a jillion bolts in all kinds of places. I got those fitted while trying to turn the moto here and there. After a while the new battery started to fade. I don't think that battery was at full power.
-6:30pm done, minus 2 bolts that refuse to return to it's place, Some bolts were really redundant. 5 bolts where the 3 fairing panels meet? and 2 on each end piece under the frame? I thought hondas were supposed to be all user friendly.
-7pm eat at Mimi's with sherwin. Bananas Foster mud pie is crazyhuge!
-Afterwards, roamed the target. They sell mighty putty there!
-Got home around 8:something. Went online and talked to my brother about getting a new cell phone etc. My 4-year old is getting silly on me. At times the battery would fade from half full to empty, and the alarm clock with my peaceful wake up music wouldn't play, once it only played 3 notes and silence. Time for a new phone!
-Going to bed around 11:30pm, kinda rare. nini
-Went to the range for some pop pop around 9:15 to 11am. My shotgun split times are still around .18-.2 seconds. Beh, it's cool for hitting a target. My goal was to leave around 10:30-10:40. But 2 coworkers were having target hitting issues. One was squeezing all his fingers when firing (hits low and left) and the other released his finger too fast after the shot broke (hits to the low and right).
-Got home at 11:15, got ready for bri n kimz baby showa.
-11:40am picked up a package for fluffielady.
-12:10pm arrived at foster city, let the games begin. Kim is showing quite a bit now. Chucky is putting himself in a partial police academy. J, Sherwin, Bert, came with the addition of Roz, Robyn n Jivis busting a cameo. Jivis is still all knocked out throughout.
-3:30pm began work on Bri's moto, it WAS supposed to be an easy task. Oil and filter change. But the battery was dead, ok replaced it, easy. Bike doesn't start up. It's fuel injected so it's supposed to be all auto done. Manual advised against push starting, or any kinda unscrupulous methods for carburetor'd motors. We proceed to install some flush mounted turn signals. Fricking body panels are a jigsaw , requiring a jillion bolts in all kinds of places. I got those fitted while trying to turn the moto here and there. After a while the new battery started to fade. I don't think that battery was at full power.
-6:30pm done, minus 2 bolts that refuse to return to it's place, Some bolts were really redundant. 5 bolts where the 3 fairing panels meet? and 2 on each end piece under the frame? I thought hondas were supposed to be all user friendly.
-7pm eat at Mimi's with sherwin. Bananas Foster mud pie is crazyhuge!
-Afterwards, roamed the target. They sell mighty putty there!
-Got home around 8:something. Went online and talked to my brother about getting a new cell phone etc. My 4-year old is getting silly on me. At times the battery would fade from half full to empty, and the alarm clock with my peaceful wake up music wouldn't play, once it only played 3 notes and silence. Time for a new phone!
-Going to bed around 11:30pm, kinda rare. nini
Labels: Crew, Maintainence, Moto, shooting sportz
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Level Of Difficulty at Work: 0.25 out of 10
Time During Lunch: Short, Very
Here ya go:
plink,plink, plink. Must.. go.. faster!!
Cleaned some gunz from all that shootin.
Today Fluffielady put the tree up and decorated it a bit. Weeee!
Time During Lunch: Short, Very
Here ya go:
plink,plink, plink. Must.. go.. faster!!
Cleaned some gunz from all that shootin.
Today Fluffielady put the tree up and decorated it a bit. Weeee!
Labels: house, shooting sportz
Monday, December 10, 2007
No work today, as i have returned from Bakersfield.
Funny Looking Tree you might add eh? It's fresh from the backyard of my house transported over to the in-laws house. It has a windswept look to it, hey what do you expect from the land of high speed fog? We should plant another but mother nature might do that since it was she that planted this one in the first place.
Christmas Trees are expensive now, we roamed around looking for pottery and we caught a glimpse at some 200$ trees! Good lord!
It's good side is displayed on the top photo, the raw unedited gruesome natural one is here on my top terrace. We think it took 2 years to grow.
But we just didn't go down for 4 days to ogle at the tree. Fluffielady was working her magic for 2 nights and i went shooting up metal plates as well as clay birds at the 5 dogs range. I took some video and after viewing it and editing most of it, it kinda looks sad. My pistoling skills were yucky, theres 2 paces that i shoot at, one quick (.5 - .6 second splits) but resulting in 40-50% missing or slower than i expected (.8 - 1.0 second splits). I can't seem to do something in the middle .6-.8 second splits.
I was also playing with a New Front sight.
That might have something to do with it but i doubt it. I need more practice on a faster cadence WITH accuracy.
Oi, youtube is doing site maintainence.. One day my pathetic video will be visible.
Funny Looking Tree you might add eh? It's fresh from the backyard of my house transported over to the in-laws house. It has a windswept look to it, hey what do you expect from the land of high speed fog? We should plant another but mother nature might do that since it was she that planted this one in the first place.
Christmas Trees are expensive now, we roamed around looking for pottery and we caught a glimpse at some 200$ trees! Good lord!
It's good side is displayed on the top photo, the raw unedited gruesome natural one is here on my top terrace. We think it took 2 years to grow.
But we just didn't go down for 4 days to ogle at the tree. Fluffielady was working her magic for 2 nights and i went shooting up metal plates as well as clay birds at the 5 dogs range. I took some video and after viewing it and editing most of it, it kinda looks sad. My pistoling skills were yucky, theres 2 paces that i shoot at, one quick (.5 - .6 second splits) but resulting in 40-50% missing or slower than i expected (.8 - 1.0 second splits). I can't seem to do something in the middle .6-.8 second splits.
I was also playing with a New Front sight.
That might have something to do with it but i doubt it. I need more practice on a faster cadence WITH accuracy.
Oi, youtube is doing site maintainence.. One day my pathetic video will be visible.
Labels: bakersfield, Gun Stuff, shooting sportz
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Yesterday J invited us to his pre-emptive thanksgiving strike. It was J's first attempt at mastering the turkey and he did it quite well. Moist n Juicy Turkey, yummy sides good folks and Dance Dance Revolution after all those eats??
Got to hang out a bit with little Chloe n Lizzy, those cute silly little girls! So it seems that the balance is now tipping, and someone spilled the pregnant water amongst the crew. Kiddos shall be arriving in bunches soon, lordy!
Today my brother had a few friends interested in learning the skill of the firearm. Having never handled such pieces, they came over for an intro to my wares. After learning the basics and the rules of engagement we headed to Jackson arms to test their skills. Jackson arms was half full as we started shooting. After a few go arounds, they could handle on their own. They did pretty decently and loved their holy targets. I guess to bring back to their offices as wall papering.
So i've beat Hitman: Blood Money on the easy difficulty.. Thoughts:
-He picks up all these firearms but they aren't very viable in future levels.
-You can buy add-ons to a list of 'custom' firearms which are: pistols, shotgun, sub-machine gun, m16, and sniper rifle. On most levels the shotgun, m16, and sub-machine gun are rarely, if ever, used at all.
-To play at the harder difficulties, you need to start from chapter 1 again. ugh.
One last thing, if someone is supremely bored with their money and want to pass it along to me. I'd like:
The Current Guinness World Record holding Ultimate Swiss Army Knife. Now in 2 years or so the one thats in my pocket will be 20 years old. But this ultimate sucker, i doubt this is rear-pocket worthy in my pants! It has a chain tool AND a 12/20gauge shotgun choke tool, Sweet!!
Got to hang out a bit with little Chloe n Lizzy, those cute silly little girls! So it seems that the balance is now tipping, and someone spilled the pregnant water amongst the crew. Kiddos shall be arriving in bunches soon, lordy!
Today my brother had a few friends interested in learning the skill of the firearm. Having never handled such pieces, they came over for an intro to my wares. After learning the basics and the rules of engagement we headed to Jackson arms to test their skills. Jackson arms was half full as we started shooting. After a few go arounds, they could handle on their own. They did pretty decently and loved their holy targets. I guess to bring back to their offices as wall papering.
So i've beat Hitman: Blood Money on the easy difficulty.. Thoughts:
-He picks up all these firearms but they aren't very viable in future levels.
-You can buy add-ons to a list of 'custom' firearms which are: pistols, shotgun, sub-machine gun, m16, and sniper rifle. On most levels the shotgun, m16, and sub-machine gun are rarely, if ever, used at all.
-To play at the harder difficulties, you need to start from chapter 1 again. ugh.
One last thing, if someone is supremely bored with their money and want to pass it along to me. I'd like:
The Current Guinness World Record holding Ultimate Swiss Army Knife. Now in 2 years or so the one thats in my pocket will be 20 years old. But this ultimate sucker, i doubt this is rear-pocket worthy in my pants! It has a chain tool AND a 12/20gauge shotgun choke tool, Sweet!!
Labels: Computer Crap, Crew, Geek Stuff, shooting sportz
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Time for some pistol action. the '08 NCAPOA pistol match.
This time the target is harder. Last year it was a bowling pin silhouette with a matching inner ring. 2 points for inside the ring, 1 for the other. This time it's a bowling pin silhouette except theres a 5" ring not barely visible in it's direct center. 1st time out i vent for the glock 21c, but didn't do too well, i scored a 63 out of 100. Then i decide to screw around with my 686, i get a 81. Peter, Capt'n D, and Ed were our team but Ed couldn't make it so we had an opening that wasn't filled. I hear that people can reshoot for a teammate who flaked. So i go in at it with the 686 with a score of 71. Damn that hot dog and hamburger weighing me down! Oh well, we'll see what happens.
Get home and started to clean the guns, loaded 100rnds of .38 and my computer all of a sudden restarts and never boots up. No POST screen, nada. I think the motherboard is fried, great. I hope i can get it replaced, but i dunno, it's got a 3 year limited warranty, and it's only year 2. But if i can't get it replaced i'll need to find a replacement socket 939 board, which is old tech now. Sucks!
This time the target is harder. Last year it was a bowling pin silhouette with a matching inner ring. 2 points for inside the ring, 1 for the other. This time it's a bowling pin silhouette except theres a 5" ring not barely visible in it's direct center. 1st time out i vent for the glock 21c, but didn't do too well, i scored a 63 out of 100. Then i decide to screw around with my 686, i get a 81. Peter, Capt'n D, and Ed were our team but Ed couldn't make it so we had an opening that wasn't filled. I hear that people can reshoot for a teammate who flaked. So i go in at it with the 686 with a score of 71. Damn that hot dog and hamburger weighing me down! Oh well, we'll see what happens.
Get home and started to clean the guns, loaded 100rnds of .38 and my computer all of a sudden restarts and never boots up. No POST screen, nada. I think the motherboard is fried, great. I hope i can get it replaced, but i dunno, it's got a 3 year limited warranty, and it's only year 2. But if i can't get it replaced i'll need to find a replacement socket 939 board, which is old tech now. Sucks!
Labels: 686, Geek Stuff, shooting sportz
Friday, July 13, 2007
Added the Twitter column, i don't know if i'm going to use it much, we'll see.
San Bruno Fog.. The Natural Stuff!
Homehome back to the lovely fluffy fog. We escaped from 97degree Bakersfield without much hitch. As we passed the 92 freeway we saw the fluffy fog creeping inward, talk about a 35 degree drop! As i download some photos that i've taken, i remembered a few as we were driving to LA last monday.
Cresting over the grapevine. L.A. Fog, 85 degrees, The Artificial stuff!
Before heading back home we headed one last time to break in a little more of my new shotgun. Since i'm home, here is thy video:
The first few times there was a bit of rise and kick, but after seeing what goes on, i sorta now have the hang of it. .16-.18 seconds between shots, sweet! But some shooting forums have stated .11-.14! One day.. one day, i've never really did the shotgun sports. Shooting clay birds was fun! i've only done it a few times and it's a different skill set than pistoling or rifling, it's more reactive and instinctual. Good thing about instinctual is that since the shotgun is spewing a hundred pellets or so pinpoint precision isn't required. Still though you do need to aim!
San Bruno Fog.. The Natural Stuff!
Homehome back to the lovely fluffy fog. We escaped from 97degree Bakersfield without much hitch. As we passed the 92 freeway we saw the fluffy fog creeping inward, talk about a 35 degree drop! As i download some photos that i've taken, i remembered a few as we were driving to LA last monday.
Cresting over the grapevine. L.A. Fog, 85 degrees, The Artificial stuff!
Before heading back home we headed one last time to break in a little more of my new shotgun. Since i'm home, here is thy video:
The first few times there was a bit of rise and kick, but after seeing what goes on, i sorta now have the hang of it. .16-.18 seconds between shots, sweet! But some shooting forums have stated .11-.14! One day.. one day, i've never really did the shotgun sports. Shooting clay birds was fun! i've only done it a few times and it's a different skill set than pistoling or rifling, it's more reactive and instinctual. Good thing about instinctual is that since the shotgun is spewing a hundred pellets or so pinpoint precision isn't required. Still though you do need to aim!
Labels: bakersfield, shooting sportz
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Went to Chabot and tried to tune somethings. I unmounted the harris bipod on my Contender and readjusted the scope for that. 20 clicks up, 10 clicks left. I tried shooting some 68grainers off the contender and i never knew what would happen with a slow-twist barrel. It didn't even hit paper, i thought my scope was mounted wrongly until i tried some 55gr's and those worked.
I also tried to adjust this adjustable gas plug on the Garand but ran out of ammo doing so. A coworker of mine came along and shot a bit.
Anyhow Sony comes with the best of tech goodies:
The 2.5-inch prototype display supports 16.8 million colors at a 120 x 160 pixel resolution, is 0.3 mm thick and weighs 1.5 grams. Nice! I'm still waiting for regular OLED displays to be out like this 11" thats coming soon sometime this year:
Can you say Contrast Ratio: 1,000,000:1 while being 3mm thick?
I also tried to adjust this adjustable gas plug on the Garand but ran out of ammo doing so. A coworker of mine came along and shot a bit.
Anyhow Sony comes with the best of tech goodies:
The 2.5-inch prototype display supports 16.8 million colors at a 120 x 160 pixel resolution, is 0.3 mm thick and weighs 1.5 grams. Nice! I'm still waiting for regular OLED displays to be out like this 11" thats coming soon sometime this year:
Can you say Contrast Ratio: 1,000,000:1 while being 3mm thick?
Labels: shooting sportz, TechNews
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Another day at the range. oi!
Today's match was a 300-yard metric (International) prone rifle match using iron sights. Brought out the trusty AR-15 and went at it. Shooting in the Service Rifle Division i lost to the other guy by 1 point. There were 8 shooters today.
Scores:
184-3x
177-3x
181-1x
Total: 542-7x
One of the guys yesterday was explaining that the rings on the target are slightly closer than the 200 yard target. Yea right, it was more like the 600-yard target i'm used to. The difference between where i usually shoot at Richmond and here is that the wind is more present. I actually had to aim off to the right by half a post or even the whole post at times, the flags were flying 95% verticle at some points then dip a little and surge back. How annoying! I had 9's left n right argh! I never knew that a bit of wind pushed my bullets so much. But then since the scoring rings are closer, maybe it's pushed less than what i thought.
After shooting that i tried out my Para at 15, 25 and 50 yards and come to the conclusion that at the 15 my aim is 3" below center, at 25 it's 6" and at 50 it's about 9" below center. Silly bullets still heading upwards.
Today's match was a 300-yard metric (International) prone rifle match using iron sights. Brought out the trusty AR-15 and went at it. Shooting in the Service Rifle Division i lost to the other guy by 1 point. There were 8 shooters today.
Scores:
184-3x
177-3x
181-1x
Total: 542-7x
One of the guys yesterday was explaining that the rings on the target are slightly closer than the 200 yard target. Yea right, it was more like the 600-yard target i'm used to. The difference between where i usually shoot at Richmond and here is that the wind is more present. I actually had to aim off to the right by half a post or even the whole post at times, the flags were flying 95% verticle at some points then dip a little and surge back. How annoying! I had 9's left n right argh! I never knew that a bit of wind pushed my bullets so much. But then since the scoring rings are closer, maybe it's pushed less than what i thought.
After shooting that i tried out my Para at 15, 25 and 50 yards and come to the conclusion that at the 15 my aim is 3" below center, at 25 it's 6" and at 50 it's about 9" below center. Silly bullets still heading upwards.
Labels: shooting sportz
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
No work today, i cut. heh
I had a dream, i remembered it much more detailed this morning but it had to do with a stalker stalking me.
I bailed from work today to go shoot it out with the FBI and SFPD snipers. i am seriously the underdog since my equipment isn't meant for the requirements. What i need is a M1-A or a tuned bolt scoped rifle, i have neither (spare $1500 anyone?). So my service rifle had to do. In my vantage i see this as more 600 yard prone training. There was only one other iron sight shooter, he happens to be a Canadian Long Distance (500yard+) Prone Champion from a few years ago. Great. And he's shooting a match rifle with all the accoutrements. The match wasn't ran as well as before, new director n what not. My score was a 189-6x, the group was averaging at the 9-ring 9-o'clock. Fricking Natural Point of Aim Crap, i gotta get that down better. I think my front sight blade is wobbly actually, it's not perfectly flat, or i'm hallucinating, like usual. I do say that i did beat a few people on their scoped and bipod'd rifles with such a low score. ick. I did score pretty well with the 686 revolver at the 25-yard national match course using my newly loaded rounds. 270 out of 300.
At Least:
1)I finished my shooting diary book.. Dear Diary, ...
2)And i finished another 8pounds of Varget Powder, thats my 2nd 8pounder. One left.
3)At the same time i finished another box of 1000 Winchester Primers too. One Winchester and one Federal box left.
Afterwards i stopped by Tomas Sport Tuning because i had a queer gasoline leak problem once. I just had the fuel filter replaced and at the first filling it overflowed, from the bottom. Finally i had the time to stop by to have it checked out and for some reason the 'apprentice' guy didn't notice the gaping hole that was caused when my tire blew out. Yep my gas tank has a hole about two fingers wide. Good thing about the hole is that it's on top of the tank, and it's purpose is to fill up and create pressure on the pump to 'click' denoting that it's filled. So no overfilling for me, and i'm not gonna drive delilah in the rain. Since i was going to break out the cash to do the 100k mile service, i might as well get a replacement tank. Total service is around $2k. Poor Delilah.
Tactical Rifle $1500 which i won't shoot much probably or 100k mile service on Delilah, which i drive a little more than shooting the Tactical Rifle (~700 miles since last Tomas MotorSport Visit 11/08/06). Hmmz good thing my tax refund is coming.
I had a dream, i remembered it much more detailed this morning but it had to do with a stalker stalking me.
I bailed from work today to go shoot it out with the FBI and SFPD snipers. i am seriously the underdog since my equipment isn't meant for the requirements. What i need is a M1-A or a tuned bolt scoped rifle, i have neither (spare $1500 anyone?). So my service rifle had to do. In my vantage i see this as more 600 yard prone training. There was only one other iron sight shooter, he happens to be a Canadian Long Distance (500yard+) Prone Champion from a few years ago. Great. And he's shooting a match rifle with all the accoutrements. The match wasn't ran as well as before, new director n what not. My score was a 189-6x, the group was averaging at the 9-ring 9-o'clock. Fricking Natural Point of Aim Crap, i gotta get that down better. I think my front sight blade is wobbly actually, it's not perfectly flat, or i'm hallucinating, like usual. I do say that i did beat a few people on their scoped and bipod'd rifles with such a low score. ick. I did score pretty well with the 686 revolver at the 25-yard national match course using my newly loaded rounds. 270 out of 300.
At Least:
1)I finished my shooting diary book.. Dear Diary, ...
2)And i finished another 8pounds of Varget Powder, thats my 2nd 8pounder. One left.
3)At the same time i finished another box of 1000 Winchester Primers too. One Winchester and one Federal box left.
Afterwards i stopped by Tomas Sport Tuning because i had a queer gasoline leak problem once. I just had the fuel filter replaced and at the first filling it overflowed, from the bottom. Finally i had the time to stop by to have it checked out and for some reason the 'apprentice' guy didn't notice the gaping hole that was caused when my tire blew out. Yep my gas tank has a hole about two fingers wide. Good thing about the hole is that it's on top of the tank, and it's purpose is to fill up and create pressure on the pump to 'click' denoting that it's filled. So no overfilling for me, and i'm not gonna drive delilah in the rain. Since i was going to break out the cash to do the 100k mile service, i might as well get a replacement tank. Total service is around $2k. Poor Delilah.
Tactical Rifle $1500 which i won't shoot much probably or 100k mile service on Delilah, which i drive a little more than shooting the Tactical Rifle (~700 miles since last Tomas MotorSport Visit 11/08/06). Hmmz good thing my tax refund is coming.
Labels: 686, Delilah, dream, reloaded, shooting sportz, Tomas Sport Tuning
