Shooting fun with a good friend

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I was able to spend about three hours shooting out at Chuck’s Place. Dan Ekstrom met me there, and we shot a number of specialty pistols. The first one, was a custom shop Remington XP-100, chambered in 6 BR (1-14 twist) that I picked up that is extremely clean. Two different hand loads came with it, plus 3 boxes of Remington factory ammunition. The group that Dan is pointing at is the load that uses the 70 grain Nosler ballistic tip.

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The scope that was on there was an old Burris 7x long eye relief. There were also some 60 grain Sierra hollow point loads, and they did not shoot as good. I decided we would just shoot those up so we could use the brass.

The point of impact was very close to the 70 grain bullet, so we begin shooting at 250 yards, with Dan on the pistol. He shot at 250 and 300 yards, and then took a break and I began shooting. To make things more fun I decided to go out to 400 yards, and obviously the holdover was fairly high. I got lucky, and found a spot to hold over on and ran about 10 consecutive hits or so on 10” steel.

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I put a Leupold scope on it the day after, which will make things a lot easier. I also put a scope on Denny’s new 6.5 Creed that Chris Rhodes recently built. We shot it at 100 yards, got the scope zeroed, and zeroed the turrets using factory ammo. It is a good shooter.

I picked up a HS precision 22-250 used, and Chris put a brake on it. It has a 1-14 twist, so we used 50 grain VMAX bullets.

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I took it all the way out to 750 yards, where it was still shooting under minute of angle. That was just cool for a 50 grain V-Max bullet.

We were both very pleased with its accuracy.

Dan shot his 6 mm creed XP that Chuck McIntosh built out to 500 yards.

Dan and I shot my little Anschutz 22 Magnum at 50 and 100 yards off Bog Gear.

The target above the 6BR group.

The time was packed with a whole lot of trigger time. A great afternoon.
 
Congrats on that level of accuracy. That must have been an enjoyable and satisfying target session. One of the projects I want to work on this year is to see how much accuracy I can wring from an old T/C Contender in 22 Hornet and 222 Remington. I won't be shooting at over 200 yards but your post is inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

Jeff
 
Ah, shooting with a good friend ...
I miss doing that, my friend past away 4 years ago. :(
I miss that old buzzard.

If you have a good friend who likes to shoot, please enjoy their company while you can.
 
Take Hondo 60’s advice. Time is short, when you have the chance to go shooting with a good friend, go! I just lost a good shooting buddy to cancer. Lots of good memories.

Great shooting as proven by your targets, keep practicing.
 
I'm glad you had a good time! :)

My favorite shooting buddy is my FiL. He is older and a cancer survivor, so I try to enjoy his company as much as I can. We are going to the range tomorrow, in fact.

I am predicting that he will rant at me for "wasting money" on my new CA 22 revolver when I "already own every kind of blankety-blank pistol in the whole blankety-blank world", then he will shoot it some, then he will deliberate about it for a few weeks, and finally end up buying one for himself. :)
 
Congrats on that level of accuracy. That must have been an enjoyable and satisfying target session. One of the projects I want to work on this year is to see how much accuracy I can wring from an old T/C Contender in 22 Hornet and 222 Remington. I won't be shooting at over 200 yards but your post is inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

Jeff

Let me know how your shooting sessions turn out.
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