I Should Have Packed Up and Went Home

Because it can only go downhill after this shot.
The shot in question is the 22 hole in the black diamond in the bottom left. I tested some 357 loads before, then started shooting my Victory 22 standing from 25 yards. That hole was the very first one of about 90 shots of 22.
I have a Victory .22 also, love it!
 
It’s a good pistol as long as you don’t have to carry it far. It weighs more empty than my Shield full of 147 grain hollow points. The only pistol I have that comes close in accuracy is my Blackhawk combined with some pretty picky hand loading. Offhand I can’t shoot the difference. From a rest I’m pretty sure the Victory wins. I’ve never shot a 20 shot group with it but I’m sure it would be over 1.25,” which the Victory will do with match ammo.
 
Because it can only go downhill after this shot.
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The shot in question is the 22 hole in the black diamond in the bottom left. I tested some 357 loads before, then started shooting my Victory 22 standing from 25 yards. That hole was the very first one of about 90 shots of 22.
I just had one of those days on Saturday, I had to qualify for my HR-218 card. It’s not a tough test, just 10 shots at 5 yards with a reload (yawn!) but it is needed for national carry as a retiree.

The rain had stopped and about 45 people were there, so I was on line two since I was shooting a 9mm and my .44 Mag Model 69 with .44 Spls. (It is my sierra-country fishing gun.)

I lined up with the others on my line, loaded up, aimed on the command and put the first five shots from my CZ-SP01 into one 1/2” hole just to the right of the 1” center ring on a silhouette the sheriffs office uses. The RSO behind me jokingly said, “I see you’ve done this before” as I did my mandatory mag chance for the last 5.

Right then was when I should’ve left.

Naturally the rest were not as well-fired as my first set, but I kept both the 9mm, and then the ten .44 Spls., where they needed to be to get the card signed.

Maybe next year…o_O

Stay safe.
 
Sometimes I think I shot better groups when I had lower powered scopes and couldn't see the group until I walked down range! A few of my rifles are capable of extreme accuracy but sometimes I'll have 4 shots overlapping into one hole and blow the fifth! :(

I have an excuse for that... I had four flyers.

Nyuck-nyuck-nyuck
 
I just had one of those days on Saturday, I had to qualify for my HR-218 card. It’s not a tough test, just 10 shots at 5 yards with a reload (yawn!) but it is needed for national carry as a retiree.

The rain had stopped and about 45 people were there, so I was on line two since I was shooting a 9mm and my .44 Mag Model 69 with .44 Spls. (It is my sierra-country fishing gun.)

I lined up with the others on my line, loaded up, aimed on the command and put the first five shots from my CZ-SP01 into one 1/2” hole just to the right of the 1” center ring on a silhouette the sheriffs office uses. The RSO behind me jokingly said, “I see you’ve done this before” as I did my mandatory mag chance for the last 5.

Right then was when I should’ve left.

Naturally the rest were not as well-fired as my first set, but I kept both the 9mm, and then the ten .44 Spls., where they needed to be to get the card signed.

Maybe next year…o_O

Stay safe.

You don’t really have the option to just pack up in that situation, but I get what you’re saying. Just tell them the next five were in there too but the hole didn’t get any bigger.
 
That's a fast .30cal

I always wondered why it wasn't a standard sniper's cartridge in military use. It's the most accurate long range .30 in existence, no?
Uhhhh... A .378 Weatherby is not a .30 caliber round. It shoots the same bullets as the .375 H&H , just a lot faster.
 
Welcome to the club. I do stupid things all day long...And you're right. The 30-378 is one rip snorting round.
 
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