armoredman
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I tossed and turned all night long, positive I had either mild case of the flu, of a wonderful allergy attack. Great. At 0630 I rose from the dead, let my long suffering wife try to snooze, fed our zoo, and got my boy out the door to school. After making a cup of hot tea, I realized it was A) a wonderful morning and B) I wasn't going to get anymore sleep anyway because I feel like I've been run over, so C) let's go shooting! Now you see why my reputation never includes the words "brilliant" or "genius".
So, I load up the car, pack my self with some generic OTC meds, and this time, I remembered my camera and tripod! Yeah, can't have it there when I shoot well, but when I feel like dirt, Oh Yeah...
So, here we are, the local unsupervised range, just one bay of 5. This one is SUPPOSED to be 100 yards, but some bright boy told me he lasered it at 97 or 87 yards, can't remember which.
Setting up. Like the home made stool? Goes well with the home made target stand.
First up, my vZ-58, and reloads.
Ain't timed delay a great thing?
Well, I was trying to find a good load with H-335, as I ran out of my AA-1680, with no real way to snag anymore out here right now. This was the best with that.
So naturally, I had to dig some 1680 loads out just to compare. Dang. And these date from '06.
As usual, perfect, flawless function....waitaminnit, did I say perfect? Nope, a burp in paradise, my lovely rifle JAMMED on one reload...failure to feed.
I am betting on two things, bad load, and the magazine I was using wasthe worst of my reworked surplus mags - the really good ones are in the chest pouch.
Switched to a differant mag, and no more issues, but that kinda torqued me a bit. The old saying kept running through my mind, "A bad day at the range beats a good day at work!"
OK, so, let's just run a few through the CZ P01, familiarization rounds, not trying for perfect groups, actually thinking it might be time to take some more Mucinex D...
Move the target closer - I can shoot at 100 yards with my P01, but not today!
So, dump a full mag of my favorite handloads in each one, rapid fire...
...oh. Joy.
All of you out there who are always screaming we only post our best groups, and never our bad one, here ya go! This is shooting with a allergy attack, limited sleep, etc. Ouch, this is painful...
At this point in time, I think there's really no more damage to be done, and all of a sudden a warm comfy bed doesn't sound half bad...and some Nyquil...
So, I load up the car, pack my self with some generic OTC meds, and this time, I remembered my camera and tripod! Yeah, can't have it there when I shoot well, but when I feel like dirt, Oh Yeah...
So, here we are, the local unsupervised range, just one bay of 5. This one is SUPPOSED to be 100 yards, but some bright boy told me he lasered it at 97 or 87 yards, can't remember which.
Setting up. Like the home made stool? Goes well with the home made target stand.
First up, my vZ-58, and reloads.
Ain't timed delay a great thing?
Well, I was trying to find a good load with H-335, as I ran out of my AA-1680, with no real way to snag anymore out here right now. This was the best with that.
So naturally, I had to dig some 1680 loads out just to compare. Dang. And these date from '06.
As usual, perfect, flawless function....waitaminnit, did I say perfect? Nope, a burp in paradise, my lovely rifle JAMMED on one reload...failure to feed.
I am betting on two things, bad load, and the magazine I was using wasthe worst of my reworked surplus mags - the really good ones are in the chest pouch.
Switched to a differant mag, and no more issues, but that kinda torqued me a bit. The old saying kept running through my mind, "A bad day at the range beats a good day at work!" OK, so, let's just run a few through the CZ P01, familiarization rounds, not trying for perfect groups, actually thinking it might be time to take some more Mucinex D...
Move the target closer - I can shoot at 100 yards with my P01, but not today!
So, dump a full mag of my favorite handloads in each one, rapid fire...
...oh. Joy.
All of you out there who are always screaming we only post our best groups, and never our bad one, here ya go! This is shooting with a allergy attack, limited sleep, etc. Ouch, this is painful...
At this point in time, I think there's really no more damage to be done, and all of a sudden a warm comfy bed doesn't sound half bad...and some Nyquil...
