50 yard range report/DGG 1860 Colt.

[LaneP]

I never got a clear explanation of why my club banned pistols on the outdoor rifle range, but it may be due to people that want to shoot long guns conflicting with people that go there to shoot pistols taking up space. While there are two other places to shoot pistols there, that is the only place to shoot a long gun. If not that, then it has to somehow be safety related, and they had an incident with someone shooting pistols launching bullets over the top of the berm. These days clubs with outdoor shooting spaces are petrified of getting sued and shut down, I hear a lot of concerns about that sort of stuff.

 

[44 Dave]

There are some ranges in my area that won't allow pistols over 25 yards. What is the reasoning behind that?

To easy to accidentally put a shot over the berm with a hand held short barreled gun.

 

[woodnbow]

I'd be interested in what others get at 50. That last group with the Colt was pretty dismal, but at 50 my sight picture was not good, and I used two different sight pictures. My .36 Remington showed pretty good potential, and I plan to try it again at 50 with a different bullet. The 1860 I'll try again with lube over the ball, as I saw a video recently where a guy shot groups with both wads under the ball, and lube over, and the lube-overs tightened up the group considerably.

Although these pistols are best suited to 25 yard purposes, I think it's an interesting exercise just to see what they can do, and know what the effective range limit actually is.

I’ll get on this!

 

[dickydalton]

There are some ranges in my area that won't allow pistols over 25 yards. What is the reasoning behind that?

Maybe fear that if the bullets don't hit the backstop or berm they will ricochet off the ground? The local range here doesn't allow lower power rifles on the 300 yard range because of that.