Have you purchased anything gun related in the last three days?

Mounted a Weigand scope base to my 7.5" Blackhawk yesterday.
The Ultradot 30 should be here Thursday from Midway.

A Bob Allen canvas range bag for my CCW renewal class

Just ordered 10 knockdown target stands for my squirrel, crow and rabbit silhouettes.

I plan on running little "small game shoot lanes" when they arrive. Another cool feature of these are they hold clay pigeons so I can use them for 3gun practice as well:

https://ar500steel-targets.com/product/clay-pigeon-holder-knock-down-stands/

A 150 moa adjustable scope base. (Moab 150) from heritage arms. Its going on a custom 1911 with a frame mounted pic rail that rides above the slide.

Waiting right now for 200 LC brass--to give me something to do--our mail guy may come at 8 am or 8pm----oh the joy

Purchased a new BraDec Kydex IWB holster for my SIG P365XL.

This morning I saw that MidwayUSA had free shipping on orders over $49. So I checked their ammo cans. The military surplus cans were on sale Grade 2 50cal cans for $9.99 and Grade 2 30 cal cans for $7.99. They were eligible for the free shipping so, I ordered 6 of the 50 cal and 4 of the 30 cal. I saved $49 just on the shipping.
https://www.midwayusa.com/s?userSearchQuery=ammo+can&userItemsPerPage=24

I always use their free shipping to stock up on rifle bullets. Today was no different.

I bought 2 CMC 3.5 lb triggers for 2 AR builds I'm finishing up.

Found a 1977 Euroarms Remington 1858. 125

Made a tall front sight so it doesn't hit 5 inches high at 25 yards.

Nice what one can do with a drill press an an x, y vice.

Some KMS Squared LED lighting for my presses.

I have wanted a decent semi-auto 12 ga for awhile and found a bargain on GunBroker. When I say bargain I mean cheaper than I could buy from my wholesale distributors. It is a Weatherby Element with a Walnut stock. Not a high-dollar gun but I have never been disappointed with Weatherby. In fact I have owned two Vanguards that were so accurate they boring to shoot. I just hope they send the gun that was in the pictures. It had some pretty wood.

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Made a down payment on a Uberti Schofield in .45Colt with a 7-1/2" barrel today.
Consignment gun...$850, non negotiable. $906 with tax and transfer.
I put $500 down on it and will pick it up after my pension checks are deposited the first of the month.

Revolver is very clean with no marks or wear anywhere that I could find. Barrel and charge holes are bright and shiny.

Came with two holsters...one RH and one LH.

Just doing my part to stimulate the economy and support a local business.

The ammo cans I ordered two days ago, from Midway USA, arrived today.
They look pretty good for Grade 2 cans.

I’ve already filled up three of them.

Decided on my day off to check out Bass Pro. Kinda needed to get ear muffs and a better range bag at the least. Ended up a Range Maxx range bag, Walker ear muffs, some gun cleaning stuff to try. They actually had some ammo in stock for pretty much all calibers. They had 100rd boxes of Herters 9mm for $17.5 a box, bought 2, also a 500rd box of Herters .22lr. Also ended up some a couple of boxes PPU Tokarev ammo and a box of Velicoter .22lr and Copper 22 to try next range.

The money I spent today I could have bought another gun.. Ugh

Two 20 round boxes of 7X64MM Brenneke, Hornady International Superformance loaded with 162 grain SST with a 2800 fps muzzle velocity.

Just ordered a JKL Inertial Trigger for my Labradar.

Well, I didn't get anything new, be I did finally get to go shooting.

As I have mentioned in the past, the range where I live has been closed for a while. The range is built over the city leach fields, which makes quite a bit is sense. However, lately, it has been closed for sewer repairs. Further, the city office that one goes to, to get the keys, has been closed due to COVID-19. All the while I have had my new 22tcm carbine just waiting to be shot.

I was aware of a range in a town about forty miles away. I called that cities office and confirmed that the range was still open and I was assured that it was.

I was a bit concerned that I was unable to find anything that looked like a range on Google Maps. But I had a pretty good idea where it was. So I loaded in some rifles and headed off. I took my new 22tcm carbine, My Remington 572 .22lr rifle, a rather generic .22lr AR, and the Glock 42 on my belt.

It took me a while to find the place. After a couple of false starts, I saw an opening forming a gate with a couple of patrol cars stopped near. As I turned toward them to ask where the range was, I saw it behind them.

The range was nothing really special, in fact, it looked to me like a dump range. By that I mean dump sites that people also shoot at. But the deputies had confirmed that I was at the right place.


The first I shot was the .22tcm. Frankly, I am very happy with it. I do not have iron sights at all, so I had put a scope on it and had done nothing more than eyeball aligned it. It turned out that I had done pretty well. As far as shooting it, I was surprised by the light recoil. I had been told to expect it to be horrifically loud, but with my earmuffs on, I didn’t notice anything outlandish. It only occurred to me later that I could have used a sound meter on my phone to be able to quantify the report, but I didn’t think of it at the time

The only one that disappointed me was the Remington 572. It is a relatively new rifle and has had several feeding problems. It was finally taken out of action by an odd double feed. I don’t like the idea of putting a loaded rifle back in the jeep, but I had little choice, it was thoroughly jammed. The only saving comment to the poor practice of putting a loaded rifle back in the cases to go home is that the bolt was not closed, the double-feed made it impossible to close the bolt.


The .22lr AR almost worked flawlessly. However, at one point a round made its way into the trigger group in the lower. It got quite thoroughly wedged in there and, in the process of removing it, the bullet and casing separated. It didn’t happen again and I did quite a bit of shooting with that one. It is an easy rifle to put my Mantis shot analyzer on and shooting for mantis score while knocking the rubbish that others had left behind was a bit of fun.

After that, I returned to the .22tcm. At that point, I had been shooting quite a bit of rimfire and felt that I had a good reference point for the .22tcm’s recoil. In full disclosure, I was not using a similar platform in the .22lr to compare to. I had been shooting a .22lr AR with the buffer and spring removed, as they are not needed for .22lr. However, in comparison to the 22tcm from a bolt action rifle, the 22tcm actually felt like less recoil than the 22lr. Again, this was with no measurements, it just felt like less.

Of course, I also went through all of my magazines on my daily carry pistol, a Glock 42. In all, a fairly good day shooting.

I picked this up today. PSA 10" 9mm pistol.

I replaced the blade brace with a SBA4 brace, replaced the fire control springs, put in a Elftmann button safety, and changed the muzzle device.

I'm impressed that PSA has modified the standard lower. The rear detent pin is no longer held in by the plate on the buffer tube. It's held in by the grip.

It's a small thing but it makes changing the brace a lot easier.

Texas10mm said:

I'm impressed that PSA has modified the standard lower. The rear detent pin is no longer held in by the plate on the buffer tube. It's held in by the grip.

It's a small thing but it makes changing the brace a lot easier.

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And, if I am looking at it right, that have omitted the forward assist.

Yep.

Though I wish it was a side charger.

I just bought an OWB DeSantis holster for my Ruger 57.

Bought a salad spinner to use as a media separator

Just got in some Turkish M1 Garand bayonets. And yes, I did say M1 Garand.

Got in the new backplate and mag release for my Glock 48.