Another day at the range

[Medusa]

Just another day in the office, shooting guns and having a great time&company.

First, our range is a peat bog, the lane in center are up to 300m one (targets are on 100m line), to the right of the bushes in front is a 600m lane; to the left, behind the wall, one can shoot out to max range of .338LM or .50BMG. This time it was a little wet, as you can see from the patches of water. At least the weather was OK, as it was a bit on a chilly side but at least dry.

We had different weapons out, but I shot my CZ75, G22, and the Sky (Finnish Mosin) rifle. Last one is on the pic, with a visiting AK4 and brass I made.

The Sky rifle was pretty fun to shoot, trying out different stances - prone, sitting, kneeling, standing (shooting a tin can at 100m, hitting every time), all unsupported. My total ammo count with it was between 120 and 150 rounds. As you can see from the pic, no recoil pads whatsoever And in the end it wasn't the shoulder that got tired, but trigger finger instead.

For those Sky-s we had, there was a crate of ammo. On side it said 20 kg and 750 rounds. It had an assortement of ammo in: Russian light ball, Chinese heavy ball, and smaller bunch of silver, red and green tipped rounds. The AP and API rounds went into old traincart (which corner is visible on the first pic, top left)

The Sky I shot was pretty accurate, it was not much a problem to shoot all rounds into 15 cm circle at the 100m range, action was smooth, rifle pleasant, recoil mild

There was an instance, pictured here, that gave us a slight thrill. But rifle was not damaged and after getting the brass remnants out it was back in business.

 

[Medusa]

This time I did pose a bit, to have some pics in photoalbum, to look back at. As I said, the Sky was a good rifle. I just might take it up and get me one.

But as said before, I also shot the G22 rifle, at paper target at 100m (to zero the scope as last time it was winter, and rifle&silencer combo prefers one subsonic ammo) and a steel plate at 50 m. Plate was face sized. It was fun to shoot at it, first was muffled pop and a tad later louder PING of hitting the plate. Guys did laugh on the G22, as it was very quiet, with the ammo it preferred it was as loud as a BB-gun. Shooting it is interesting, as only thing heard/or felt though the stock, is the sproing of the hammer/bolt return springs.

But it is accurate. we had light to moderate and gusty wind from 10-11o'clock, yet the preferred ammo grouped 3x6 cm (basicly 1 moa, as the wind stretched the group horizontally). I'd say it's a very good result, as the target was 100m away.

To end the day we shot the pistols for relaxing. I shot the CZ75 and one mag through 9mm USP. CZ has nicer trigger. YOu can see the yellow traincab behind me? We also shot at this. It was made of 3mm thick steel, but my CZ made nice holes in it. One hole had the stripped-off copper jacket around it, but the core made through.

Anyway in the end, just another day in the range, having the pleasure of shooting things up to complement being out in the nature.

 

[Sgt.Dusk]

Sky rifle?

You know that its m39 finnish Mosin Nagant?
Sky stands for "SuojelusKuntain Yliesikunta"

Btw that g22 looks nice.

 

[Medusa]

Yes I know that, but everybody here calls it Sky (as it is written so on receiver), so it slipped in. Even more, sometimes when I have referred to it as Mosin Nagant, I get the "huh, what? That's a Sky" look, so I don't bother to call it anything else anymore. I could call it MN, but to say it in our language it's easily taken as one other word (looks like a worm and one gender has it) and I definitely wouldn't call a rifle as that.

As a sidenote, the AK4 rifle is generally known as "oar".

 

[buck00]

Nice range!

Ever find any interesting items in those woods? Helmets? Relics?

I wonder how many Russians and Germans fell around that area?

 

[Eightball]

Nice pictures and reports, thanks!

 

[Medusa]

Nice range!

Ever find any interesting items in those woods? Helmets? Relics?

I wonder how many Russians and Germans fell around that area?

If to consider whole country, then it's full of WWII and our freedom war relics. All kinds of stuff have come up, like Lewis MG, a T34 tank with german markings, some german tanks, airplanes. Near the range are few mig jets. A lot of stuff.

How many fallen? at least couple hundred thousands.

 

[_N4Z_]

That is not a M39.

Looks like a M28/30.

Nice rifle.

 

[Threejs]

Check the headstamps on the red tipped ones next time.. I wouldn't shoot a red tipped russian round. (They are exploding bullet rounds)

http://www.mosinnagant.net/t3p.asp

Just based on the year and manufacturer, it is a 28/30.

 

[Starship1st]

Thanks for shareing; it put me in the mood to head for the range.

 

[Medusa]

To add - it's interesting to hear morning news: last day the sappeurs (fire departement handles that) "catch" was 3 mortar rounds, couple aircraft bombs, some grenades and fuses. Sometimes a seamine floats ashore.

Today were 2 news, one was about a guy who had a small armory in home. The guy made explosive boobytraps to keep off thieves (in the countryhouse), almost blew up the police force searching through his premises. Guy had, to bring out from the rest, some machineguns (not your average "high-capacity semi-automatic heavy machinegun that shoots exploding bullets" WASR but real beltfeds) and even an aircraft cannon.

or an old lady doing gardenworks. What comes out of the ground while doing that? Right, a mortar round. Or a 500kg bomb (that has been dropped once already ) that came out from the basement when demolishing the house.

Interesting place this is, for a living.