Remington 700 police. Love it.

I sold a watch, gave my wife half the money and with the rest I bought a new Remington 700 police in .308 with a VX I 4X12 40mm, and a Rock Mount 9-13" bipod. This is my first rifle that isn't hard iron sighted. Thought I'd give my 61 year old eyes a break.

Since I'm painting my house on weekends and I'm slow at it, I can only get to the range on Wednesday nights for a while. At night, the only range open is the 100 yrd.

Shooting this rife out to 100 yards is like driving a race car around a mall parking lot on a busy day. Still, it's interesting.

I took four shots (it was bore sighted) and the group was a three inch cluster, exactly three inches to the right of center and three inches up from center. I could see this because it was on the white. So I dialed in the scope and worked out a steadying posture at the bench, sitting in a chair, bipod up, non-trigger arm tucked, cheek welded, duplex reticle focused, breathing checked and heart slowed down to a zombie pulse (or I tried to).

I have 1400 rounds of .308 ammo that was given to me and that is at least 15 years old and 5 different brands. But right now I am shooting UMC 150 gr.

I fired off one round and couldn't see any point of impact through the scope. I don't have a spotting scope yet, as I'd rather get a good one and right now if I'm going to spend $500 on anything it better have a trigger and a business end. So I fired off another one and still couldn't see anything. There was still 15 minutes before the cease fire, so I shot three more rounds...and noticed that I was starting to see the berm behind the target through the X ring.

After I paint the house I am thinking of joining the Burbank Rifle and Pistol Club (So. California) and see if I can get good at 4-600 yards.

Just as a note, I know a lot of guys buy this gun as a starting point and change out the barrel, stock and trigger. Maybe I will someday, too, but right now I am really enjoying the stock product and the apparent thought that went into it.

Holy crap! What kind of watch was it??

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Gunnie knew: Rolex. Sold my 20 year old Rolex Submariner. I loved it, but after 20 years it was just a watch. No budget these days is being allocated for ordnance by the War Department (wife), so I have to take existing personal possessions and transition them them into new material. You'd never know I used to wear that Remington on my wrist!

I just traded a 1985 Sig P226 for an almost new Springfield MC Loaded Operator but will have to learn to shoot it left handed because my right wrist is blown out. Plus there is also dealing with vision, eyeglasses and three sight planes. If I can't work that out, then the Operator will turn into a tac scope. But damn, it is a well-built 1911.