buying my first gun

[poppy]

A great first purchase. Mine was a Ruger about 40 years ago and it will be passed down to my son, who hopefully will pass it down to my grandson.

I am partial the the stainless Rugers and have several in both semiauto and revolver.

Please take care of that first purchase and pass it down to your "little minds."

I commend you on buying a safe first.

 

[cidirkona]

The whole purchase process was a pain in the , I had to make 3 trips to the PD, and a trip to the gun store.

Dang... and I thought it was a PITA taking the 5 minutes to fill out a 4473 everytime... God bless Az!!

-Colin

 

[-sean-]

Keep us updated, creitzel.

 

[creitzel]

Took it to the range today

Ok, so I took it to the range today, and put 200 rounds through it. I would have shot more, but I had some honey do items to take care of too

So here are the 2 targets I shot (sorry for the bad quality pics, photographer I definitely am not).





I shot 20 rounds at each bullseye at 5 yards or so. I think I did pretty good for my second time shooting. On the last bullseye, I was way off, and I thought at the time that it was due to me starting to get tired (the sight picture was pretty wobbly at this point ), but when I started to clean the gun, I noticed that there was quite a bit of lead fouling on it too. Especially around the muzzle. I wonder if this was affecting things on the last bullseye.

I did have 7 failure to feeds, and one failure to fire on this trip. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, or if the gun just doesn't like the ammo I got (remington .22LR thunderbirds). The failure to feeds always seemed to happen on the 8th round in the magazine. The round would make it 1/2 to 3/4 of the way up the feed ramp, and then stove pipe when the bolt returned. Needless to say, I didn't try to refire these rounds, and now I'm wondering what I should do with them lol. It probably wouldn't be safe to just dump them in the garbage can, so any suggestions?

As I was cleaning it, I learned a very important lesson. Always keep bandaids handy when cleaning your gun lol. The bore brush got stuck in the bore, because of all the lead. I was holding the barrel with my right hand, and pulling on the brush with my left, to try and get it out. Next thing I know, my right hand slips, and I cut an inch long, front sight shaped, gash in my index finger. This gash then begins to bleed profusely all over my work area lol. Anyways, I think I got it stuck because I was trying to go too far down the bore before I cleaned the first part. I found that if I used short strokes and worked down the barrel slowly, the bore brush would eventually go all the way down the barrel. Solvent is your friend lol.

Anyways, that about sums it up for my first trip to the range with the new gun

Chris

 

[cidirkona]

Hahah, I know how that goes... trust me: a bore snake is worth every penny. It does everything all in one shot.

I usually don't see much if any lead fouling on my p22, but 22 semiautos are all fairly finicky (most rimfire semiautos for that matter) about ammo selection. The great thing about 22 is that it's incredibly cheap. Pick up a brick of every flavor you can find, and give away the stuff that doesn't feed well to buddies so that they have to come out with you next time. My Walther p22 HATES Blazer, but my buddy's p22 loves it!

Ok, so now that you're an owner -- what's your next purchase??

-Colin

 

[creitzel]

trust me: a bore snake is worth every penny. It does everything all in one shot.

bore snake? got a link to a site where I can see one? If there's an easier way to clean this thing, I'm definitely interested . As it stands right now, it takes me quite a bit longer to clean it than I spend shooting it lol.

Not sure what the next purchase will be yet. I like the CZ 75, but I want to rent a few more at the range, and see what else I like as well. I really want to have shot a few of them before I decide on the next one, as times are tight, and I have to make the money stretch right now.

 

[cidirkona]

I hope this link works, but if you search Cabellas.com for 'bore snake' you should find it.

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0005329222426a&type=product&cmCat=search_redir

Granted, it won't clean the action and everything, just the bore, but it sure does make it quite a bit quicker!

-Colin

 

[creitzel]

Cool, thanks for the link. That definitely looks like something I'm interested in. Gonna have to see if I can get my hands on one.

Thanks again,

Chris