I installed the long missing rear sight on my venerable Ruger 10/22 yesterday and hammered the dovetail to an approximate calibration.
I broke the rear sight off in 1988 and have been using cheap $9 tasco scopes ever since. They don't last long under rapid fire.
Went out to my local range with the 10/22 , and new top me Colt Army Special 38.
I had dumped every spare handful of leftover .22 LR into a box and was loading them into an 18 year old plastic 27 round mag. there were Winchester HP, Remington gold overlubed, CCI, Vipers etc..
Magically it seems one handful of .22 LR fills the magazine.
From fifty yards the 10/22 chugged away making golfball sized groups very close to point of aim. This was surprising with the new sight just installed and the 8 different types of ammo haphazardly tossed into the mag.
Nearly every spent casing flew into my open range bag which was totally
unintentional but saved me from having to police up the area and kept the
hot little casings out of my shirt.
Everything is going fantastic and gets better.
Two older gentlemen are shooting next to me with Identical Enfield Jungle carbines. The magazines look really weird though.
I wait till they take a break and tell them I had been admiring their Enfields.
Turns out they were converted to .308 in the late 60's.
One of the guys "Gary" hands me the Jungle carbine and a 10 round mag
and says "have fun" Happliy I fired off a magazine at my target admiring the mild recoil and smooth bolt action. Ended up having a great conversataion about milsurp rifles with these guys and learned a lot.
Checking through the spotting scope I had placed a couple of perfect bullseyes and about a 1/2 MOA 3 shot group with the carbine.
Heading over to the pistol range I grabbed up my Colt new army which I hadn't fired yet and loaded it up with some mild lead reloads.
At 25 yards I got some decent 3 inch groups with the crude sights.The recoil was non-existant with this heavy large frame revolver.
Triggerpull and functioning were flawless for this 1908 vintage gun. It was easy to imagine going back in time when this Colt was state of the art.
Overall a great range day that makes up for all those crappy ones that we hear about so often on THR
I broke the rear sight off in 1988 and have been using cheap $9 tasco scopes ever since. They don't last long under rapid fire.
Went out to my local range with the 10/22 , and new top me Colt Army Special 38.
I had dumped every spare handful of leftover .22 LR into a box and was loading them into an 18 year old plastic 27 round mag. there were Winchester HP, Remington gold overlubed, CCI, Vipers etc..
Magically it seems one handful of .22 LR fills the magazine.
From fifty yards the 10/22 chugged away making golfball sized groups very close to point of aim. This was surprising with the new sight just installed and the 8 different types of ammo haphazardly tossed into the mag.
Nearly every spent casing flew into my open range bag which was totally
unintentional but saved me from having to police up the area and kept the
hot little casings out of my shirt.
Everything is going fantastic and gets better.
Two older gentlemen are shooting next to me with Identical Enfield Jungle carbines. The magazines look really weird though.
I wait till they take a break and tell them I had been admiring their Enfields.
Turns out they were converted to .308 in the late 60's.
One of the guys "Gary" hands me the Jungle carbine and a 10 round mag
and says "have fun" Happliy I fired off a magazine at my target admiring the mild recoil and smooth bolt action. Ended up having a great conversataion about milsurp rifles with these guys and learned a lot.
Checking through the spotting scope I had placed a couple of perfect bullseyes and about a 1/2 MOA 3 shot group with the carbine.
Heading over to the pistol range I grabbed up my Colt new army which I hadn't fired yet and loaded it up with some mild lead reloads.
At 25 yards I got some decent 3 inch groups with the crude sights.The recoil was non-existant with this heavy large frame revolver.
Triggerpull and functioning were flawless for this 1908 vintage gun. It was easy to imagine going back in time when this Colt was state of the art.
Overall a great range day that makes up for all those crappy ones that we hear about so often on THR
