Frustrating and satisfying...a day at the range

[Wedge]

Had a little time so I went to the range. Turns out the bigger the boom, the better I shoot.

.45 Colt - sub 4" groups at 15 yards (pretty much a new record for myself!)
9mm - 6" groups at 15 yards
.22LR - at least I hit the target at 15 yards

The .22 then get dirty and jammed up on me, no longer feeding. At that point I went back to the 9mm to finish out my range session.

So even though my .22LR was inaccurate it gave me some trigger time which was a little more exciting than dry firing and helped me out with the big boys.

The frustrating part was having the jam...at least I had a couple other guns with me to keep going.

Satisfying part was continuing improvement on the 9mm and .45 Colt.

On a bonus note, the guy before me didn't clean out his brass bucket and there were 100 once fired .357 SIG cases!!! I assume once fired since there were two WWB boxes in the trash. Score!

 

[MrTwigg]

Always nice to spend some time at the range, even better when ya find some easter eggs in a caliber you shoot !

 

[Alphazulu6]

Yeah Easter Eggs

 

[Black Adder LXX]

was the 22 a Walther p22 by any chance?

 

[Tom Servo]

That's not unusual. I shoot slightly tighter groups with a .45 than I do with the 9mm. With a .357SA wheelgun, I'm just dandy.

We have a Redhawk in .44 for rental at work. Guy walked in with his 9-11-year old son, and the son wanted to try it. The guy asked twice if that was what the kid really wanted. Kid insisted it was.

Fifteen minutes later, they came out of the range. By the second cylinder, the kid was shooting 3" at ten yards. Dad looked just as amazed as the rest of us.

I offered to sell him a reloading press, as he's going to need it if the kid keeps this up

 

[Wedge]

Black Adder, yes it is a P22. After cleaning it worked fine again, though it was certainly frustrating that it jammed up after dirty. I will attribute innacuracy to the stove bolts that backed out...need to loc-tite them.

 

[GigaBuist]

My P22 had a few issues on the range today too.

Primer failed to ignite and manually cycling the slide didn't eject the dud round. Luckily I keep a mini pry-bar on my keychain so getting them out wasn't too big of a deal.

Doesn't help that I've put 750 rounds through it in the past 8 days without cleaning it.